Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo
state, says those who claimed to have caged him can only do so in the office of
John Oyegun, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
On Thursday Theo Ekechi, a former
commissioner in the state, said stakeholders of APC in the state had made
Okorocha irrelevant.
“There has been wide jubilation
in Imo because we have rescued the party from Okorocha. We have made it
impossible for him to get help from anywhere. He cannot run to any political
figure in the state because none is with him, he cannot approach any clergyman
in the state. In his desperation, he ran to Sokoto, Daura and even to the
vice-president, but help has refused to come,” Ekechi had said after a meeting
with the leadership of the party in Abuja.
But in a statement issued on his
behalf by Sam Onwuemedo, his media aide, the governor accused Oyegun of working
with his opponents.
He said Oyegun had turned against
him because he kicked against the elongation of his tenure.
Okorocha asked his opponents in
Imo to allow congresses to hold in the state rather than go to Abuja to
manipulate the process.
“The so-called Imo stakeholders
can only cage governor Rochas Okorocha like they have claimed in the media in
the offices of the national chairman of the party, chief John Oyegun and the
national organising secretary of the party, chief Osita Izunaso, who are on
vendetta mission against the governor over his innocent and patriotic stand on
the issue of tenure elongation,” the statement read.
“And in any case, only ingrates
can claim caging the man God used to uplift them politically. All those in the
insolvent group called coalition are all beneficiaries of Okorocha’s political
successes in Imo.”
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