Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, and the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance are at loggerheads over the minister’s description of Governor Willie Obiano as an idle governor.
Ngige had said Obiano had the time to take weird pictures and upload them on social media because he was idle.
The minister spoke in Awka, the Anambra State capital, at a meeting of the stakeholders of the All Progressive Congress and members of the Registration and Revalidation Committee of the party.
There have been criticisms of Governor Obiano over a picture he took with a pet dog in his living room while he was on holiday in the US and which he posted on the internet.
Ngige also lambasted the ruling APGA in Anambra State over what he called abysmal performance.
The minister said, “We want to drive away governor-do-nothing, who’s sitting down there. You can’t be a governor and just cross your legs and be playing music and say you are governor.
“No work is going on in this state. The people of the state are tired of APGA. We’re tired of bringing people who don’t know their left from right, who just want to come and learn how to be a governor.”
But in his reaction to Ngige’s diatribes against Governor Obiano, APGA National Chairman, Dr Victor Oye, said, “This is Jealousy Limited. What is wrong with a governor creating time out of his busy schedule to cool off after working hard to deliver democracy dividends to his people?
“Is it not said, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy? Let me ask: Which one is better: taking a photo with your pet dog or sleeping with another man’s wife – which is the pastime of some of our loud-mouthed and green-eyed politicians?
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“What about those that do terrible things kept out of public glare? But Willie Obiano is real and altruistic. I stand stoutly by him, because he has made Anambra State proud, notwithstanding the shenanigans of some sanctimonious individuals who always think they are better than others.”