Imo State Governor, Rochas
Okorocha, has launched a scathing attack on the All Progressive Congress(APC)
National Chairman, Adams Oshiomole, following his suspension from the party. He
was suspended over anti-party activities alongside his Ogun State counterpart,
Governor Ibikunle Amosun.
According to a statement he
released through his Spokesman, Sam Onwuemeodo, He accused Oshiomole of
plotting to destroy APC in the South East zone.
His statement below:
“Adams Oshiomhole was determined right from
the outset to destroy APC in the south-east and unknown to party chieftains
from the zone who had genuinely supported his chairmanship.
“He is playing the politics
of 2023 in 2019 and in playing it he has thrown caution to the wind. In all the
south-east states, there are crises and all arising from the fraudulent manner
he conducted the primaries.
“In 2015, Governor Okorocha
had joined the merger that gave birth to APC at the risk of his second tenure
and was called all sorts of unprintable names.
“Yet, he won the
governorship election, delivered 24 out of the 27 members of the House of
Assembly for APC, two House of Representatives members and one Senator.
“In 2019, Oshiomhole felt
that such a man should be treated with disdain. He handed over the governorship
ticket of the Party to Hope Uzodinma who has never resigned his membership of
the PDP on the floor of the Senate like others did and giving all kinds of
flimsy excuses.
“And if Oshiomhole had
meant well for APC and Imo people in particular, would he have given the ticket
of the Party to a man facing five corruption charges and having travel ban
slammed on him, to be the party’s Candidate?”
Okorocha berated the national
chairman for his “lack of wisdom” while alleging that Oshiomhole was trying to
fulfill his own end of a deal that involved giving out the party’s ticket to
“non-deserving elements.”
“In the February 23, 2019
Presidential and National Assembly election, Governor Okorocha won in ten, out
of the twelve local government areas in Orlu zone to emerge winner for Imo West
Senatorial District,” he said.
“He also delivered four
House of Representatives Candidates on the platforms of APC and AA
respectively, with one Senate Seat and two House of Representatives Seats
outstanding.
“And when the APC members
across the nation are still celebrating the success of the party in the
Presidential and National Assembly elections, Oshiomhole in his wisdom or lack
of it, felt that the best action in the circumstance was to suspend two
governors who did well in the election, even when he played safe in 2015 and
2019 in Edo State without any known pressure.
“Again, Oshiomhole coming
with the purported expulsion this time was only acting out of the fear that God
in his infinite Mercy could give Governor Okorocha a role to play in the
Senate, in the overall interest of the nation.
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