Anambra Sextuplets: Residents Carpet Obi, Ekwunife, Uba, Others For Abandoning C

Anambra State residents have chided the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi for his alleged non-challant attitude to the plight of the family whose member was delivered of a set of sextuplets.
The Obijackson Women and Children’s Hospital in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area where the sextuplets were delivered have threatened to stop medication if the family fails to cough out N19 million.

Many residents are of the opinion that public spirited people like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Femi Otedola would have come to the family’s aide if the babies were delivered in the Southwest part of the country.

They also flayed other notable politicians like Senator Uche Ekwunife, Hon. Chris Azubogu, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, Chief Chris Uba and Senator Andy Uba, among others, for failing to show concern for the babies and their mother.

Chika, a trader, who spoke with our correspondent on Friday, expressed her anger with Prince Arthur Eze, who she said was in the habit of doling out money to politicians but decided to keep quiet in respect of the bundles of joy.

She said: “Imagine all the appeals that have been made but these selfish people would not come to the rescue of the poor couple. They will later come around to look for people that would vote for them during elections

“Ekwunife, Ubah and Azubogu will be sharing wrappers or what looks like one cup of rice for people to vote for them, but they would not render help in this matter.”

Another resident, Mr Jideofor Okeke, said it was disheartening watching so called billionaires like Peter Obi canvassing for votes without looking the way of the couple delivered of seven babies.

“Yet some people are campaigning for him because he wants to be President. Is that not how he will abandon the people if elected?

“He will travel to Kenya, Botswana, Mauritania and Jamaica to donate millions of dollars, but to help the poor people here, he and his cohorts will not,” Okeke said

Mrs Ngozi Uzodike, a lecturer at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, was last Sunday delivered of a set of sextuplets.

Our correspondent gathered that some individual donations ranging between N5,000 and N20,000 had been received by the family since the news of the newborn babies broke, but the sum so far realised was still a far cry from the sum needed.

Ngozi’s husband, Mr Celestine Uzodike, told The Nation that his only regret was that his wife had not been paid since she was engaged at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka in 2020.

He appealed to the federal and state governments, corporate organisations and individuals to come to their aid, adding that they had already lost one of the babies.

He commended the management of the hospital for taking good care of his wife and the surviving babies, adding that with God on their side, they would raise the needed amount.

The Healthcare Manager of the hospital, Chika Ndu -Okonkwo, told The Nation that the huge sum was needed because of oxygen.

She said although it is not easy to take care of the babies, the hospital would do everything it can to keep them alive.

She said each of the babies would stay up to eight weeks in the hospital and each of the babies would gulp around three million naira, adding that they weighed only 1KG each.

Ndu -Okonkwo, said that it was the time those who had money in the State and government should step in and save the lives of the children, adding that everything was not politics

It was learnt Friday, that the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in the State, through it’s Commissioner, Ify Obinabo, had reached the couple, assuring them of assistance.

Source:- The Nation