Ogbogwu market: Group demands election from Anambra commissioner
By polycarp Ifeanyi
A group of traders under the aegis of Concerned Onitsha Drug Market Traders Onitsha, Anambra State who are traders at Drug International Market Onitsha popularly known as ( Ogbogwu) have passionately pleaded the Anambra State Commissioner for Trade, Commerce, Market and Wealth Creation, Hon. Uchenna Okafor to conduct election in their Market to enable traders elect their preferred leaders.
The traders spoke through their Chairman, Chief Ifeanyi Obiekwe and secretary, Mr. Linus Nweke Stated that Ogbogwu Market is very much peaceful and devoid of violence.
He added that election is needed in the Market as traders have prepared and ready to elect their leaders, revealing that those who are protesting against election in the Ogbogwu have no stake in the Market and were sponsored by those who felt that the election might not favour them if it is conducted.
Obiekwe who frowned on the none conduct of the Ogbogwu election on the stipulated date noted that some people endulged in fabricating all manners of lies against the Commissioner for Market himself, Caretaker Chairman of the Ogbogwu Market and Market traders in general.
He described those people as miscreants which he said they never allowed peace to reigns in the Market, just as he averred that all the allegations that Ogbogwu is in violence and the Care-taker Chairman are in loggerhead with other executives are false alarm and unfounded.
” We assure you that our Market is peaceful and it is verifiable.We are tired of Care-taker leadership. Traders want to elect their leaders by themselves. People who are protesting against Ogbogwu Market election are unknown to the Market Union and entire traders. They are hired thugs.”
It is worthy to recall that, only the Ogbogwu Care-taker Chairman, Mr. Donatus Ajama and President general of Bridge-Head Market, Mr. Sunday Obinze when the going was tough in the Anambra State invited and campaigned for the in-coming Governor of Anambra State, Professor Charles Soludo when he visited Bridge- Head Market during the election campaign which he emerged winner.
Now, the coast is clear, the same people who absconded from the Market during Professor Soludo’s visit/ campaign tour wanted to reap from where they did not sow by blackmailing every body in order to tag themselves best. It is not true ! Please, commissioner, investigate this fact by your self and save this Market from endless Caretaker leadership. Enough of sycophants in Ogbogwu Market”, Obiekwe posited.
