PATRON, GIFAD
In politics Oje-Ozi Ndigbo has been a prominent and vocal member of all the political parties and associations he has belonged to, viz.: Secretary, National Finance Committee, United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP); Chief Returning Officer, First ever National Convention of the UNCP; Founder and Secretary General, Peoples Democratic Congress (PDC) 1996 and 1998; Member, National Caucus of All Peoples Party (APP), which later became the ANPP and now part of the APC; Member, Peoples Democratic Party National Initiative, Candidate for the Office of National Secretary PDP – November 1999 National convention.
In 2002, Chief Chekwas Okorie founded the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). This singular achievement placed the Oje-Ozi Ndigbo as the first Igbo person to become the Founder and National Chairman of a registered national political party in Nigeria. He led APGA to a phenomenal feat in the much manipulated 2003 general election. APGA became one of the three biggest parties in Nigeria out of 30 at the time. The party was widely reckoned with as the foremost opposition party in Nigeria. In December 2004, APGA was hit by a debilitating internal crisis. The crisis defied all conceivable solutions resulting in APGA derailing from the path of the vision of the founding fathers. Eight years after, in 2012, Chief Chekwas Okorie threw in the towel and promised his associates that a new political platform would be registered to resume pursuing the realization of the vision that prompted him to found APGA. On the 2nd of October, 2012 the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registered the United Progressive Party (UPP) with the head of the tiger as its symbol, founded by Chief Chekwas Okorie with the collaboration of his political associates. By this singular feat, Chief Okorie became the only surviving one of four eminent Nigerians who founded two political parties in their life time. The other three were Chief Obafemi Awolowo who founded Action Group (AG) and Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), Mallam Aminu Kano founded Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) and Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), and Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim founded Nigeria Peoples Party (NPP) and Great Nigeria Peoples Party.