Obi assists corps members, says aide

Senior Special Assistant to Governor Peter Obi on Media and Publicity, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, has assured the people of Anambra State that Obi would remain committed to the welfare of all the segments of the society, including the youth.
In a statement on claims by some people that he was not responsive to the plight of the stranded Anambra youth corps members in some parts of the country recently, Obienyem said it was statements made in ignorance.
According to him, once the post-election crisis started, Obi was the first to establish contact with security agencies and was working directly with the Director of the SSS and the State Commissioner for Police on the security situation as it affected not just the Corps members but Igbo people in the affected areas as the chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum.
He worked essentially with other South-East Governors. This, he said was his pattern, which saw him in the past visiting Jos twice to see Eastern victims of the crisis there and talk to them.
Obienyem contended that some people are making all sorts of claim, when they do not even know the genesis of the Dana flight that brought some of the corps members back.