A fresh crisis is brewing in the influential Umuahia Premier Club following a strong-worded statement by the President of its Umuahia Branch, Prem Ako Obioma, accusing the member representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North and South Federal Constituency, Hon. Obi Aguocha, of ingratitude and abandonment.
The statement, which has leaked and is circulating widely across WhatsApp groups in Ohuhu, Umuahia and Ikwuano, is already generating heated debate.
In the leaked message addressed to “Prem Ebo”, Obioma, who identified himself as Aguocha’s political godfather and sponsor, claimed he was instrumental to Aguocha’s emergence as Labour Party candidate in 2023.
According to him, Aguocha never planned to contest for House of Representatives in 2023 and only got the Labour Party ticket after losing out in the PDP.
“I personally gave Obi Aguocha the ticket for the Labour Party after Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu disappointed us in PDP. My brothers and their associates refused, but at that time, the Labour Party was a family agenda, and Obi’s position was my allocation. Despite that, it took me weeks to convince Obi Aguocha to return for the contest because of the trauma of losing PDP ticket,” the statement read.
Obioma further alleged that since the 2023 elections, the federal lawmaker has not attended Prem meetings nor paid his dues, except for a recent payment of N500,000 which he said was made after intervention by the national leadership ahead of the 2027 elections.
He also claimed that after the election, Labour Party sent a delegation to his house to thank him for his role in delivering Umuahia South.
“After Labour Party sent their representatives to my house in April 2023, which include Hon Acho Obioma, Prem Mcdee Uba, and Prem Obi Aguocha in attendance to appreciate me for (Wike) role I and my PDP structure played in that first of its kind in Umuahia South election result that gave them victory, Prem Obi Aguocha has never crossed my gate, to talk more of entering my house,” he alleged.
He added that since Aguocha went to the National Assembly, he only briefly entered one meeting convened by Emeka Uta and never attended any other Prem meeting.
Obioma who was reacting to claims that he was jealous and envious of Aguocha, challenged the lawmaker to tell the world the truth about how he became candidate.
He maintained that Prem has a template for supporting its own which Aguocha benefited from in 2023, and has never endorsed any candidate including Aguocha himself.
“Let any Prem come out and state any instance where we have endorsed any candidate, including Prem Obi Aguocha’s last election. Prem has a template for supporting his own, and we have always applied it, and Obi Aguocha benefited from that template in his last election,” he said.
He added that the fear and hullabaloo in the camp of the lawmaker was due to guilty conscience, noting that at the appropriate time, Ohuhu people and Ndi Nwem will judge who is the ingrate.
“I have publicly come out to say I have forgiven everyone and ask God to judge all of us. Our spiritual father, the ArchBishop Opoko, can attest to all these. However, now that Prem Obi Aguocha has come out to tell the world that his political Godfather and sponsor which I claim and will defend is envious and jealous of him, at the appropriate time, the Ohuhu’s and ndi nwem will judge between me and Prem Obi Aguocha who is the INGRATE and who is JEALOUSING WHO. I rest my case,” he concluded.
The development comes days after the leadership of Umuahia Premier Club, Umuahia Branch, in a rejoinder dated 21st September, 2026 and signed by its President, Premier Ako Obioma and Secretary, Premier Chuka Agomoh, debunked reports that the Club endorsed Aguocha for second term, describing the purported endorsement as unauthorized, null and void.
Efforts to get Hon. Obi Aguocha’s reaction were unsuccessful as of press time.
