APGA Stirs to New Life under Obiano, Expands to 7 States

 

When Governor Willie Obiano took over the leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) as the Chairman BoT and National Leader, on December 17 last year, he quoted the Italian Renaissance man, Michelangelo, to his fellow party men and women. In a powerful emotional voice, Obiano said; “the greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” The tremendous resurgence of APGA since this ambitious statement has since shown that Governor Obiano knew exactly what he was saying.

Looking for a fitting, epigrammatic phrase on which to hang former US President, Bill Clinton’s campaign against George H.W Bush in 1992, James Carville came up with the line “It’s the economy, stupid.” Aimed at playing up the paramount importance of the economy in the heady electioneering campaign of the time when the American economy was in recession, the strategy did not only help in unseating the Bush, it took an instant life of its own, mutating into similar phrases like – “it’s is the deficit stupid,” “It’s the voters, stupid,” and so on. Looking at where the All progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) is coming from, what immediately pops to mind runs along the line of, “It’s the leadership, stupid.” Hopefully Obiano has stepped in to stem the tide.

 

Indeed since Chief Willie Obiano became the BoT Chairman and National Leader, what we have seen is akin to what happens when a rainbow rises after a heavy downpour; a lifting up of the spirit that finds exaltation in its own very existence. All of a sudden, the internal wrangling, the sprouting of cliques and cleavages, the break-up, kiss and make-up have either died a natural death or faded to the background where they should belong. In their place, a new order of reality has arisen. Where we once had personality clashes we now have a strong feeling of brotherhood. Where there were cliques and cleavages, there is a strong expansive spirit that accommodates all shades of strengths and we