Anambra APGA chairman fetes lawyers
By Julie Sylvia, Onitsha
The Anambra State Chairman of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Ifeatu Obi Okoye, Sunday, played host to his Ogidi country home Indigenous lawyers where he feted them till dusk.
Expressing satisfaction with the hosting which coincided with the celebration of the annual Nwafor Ogidi festival, Chief Okoye, who is also a lawyer, thanked them for honouring his invitation to come, wine and eat with him.
In his speech, the chairman of the Ogidi Lawyers Association, His Worship, Chief Magistrate Chukwuma Ibemesi, said that, the get-together was not a routine but a special occasion at the invitation of Chief Okoye, for members of Ogidi indigenous lawyers to come, eat and wine with him.
“Normally we have our meetings two times in a year, during Nwafor festival and in December, but in this case, it is not a routine meeting but a special occasion. Okoye, our host, called Igirigi by his admirers, in his usual manner, decided to fete us.
“He is a jolly good fellow and philanthropist who enjoys feting people and this association binds us together for things of mutual interest, helps us to propagate law and order in Ogidi community. We also fashion out issues in the association and ways of solving them,” he disclosed.
On the Nwafor festival he said that it was an annual festival of the Ogidi people explaining that, “We use it to rest after farming season, everybody both at home and in Diaspora celebrates it. It is one of the festivals Ogidi is known for”, he further explained.
In his contribution, Barr. Patrick Agbata, described Okoye as a man of the people adding, “That was why he was elected the State chairman of APGA. When he invited us for this get-together we knew he would fete us, it has been his nature to make people happy.
“Our prayer is that God will continue to guide, protect and give him the strength with which to take APGA to the next level. “He is a man of the people,” if I am to quote the late literally icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe,” he affirmed.
