The Imo state governor, Rochas
Okorocha, has accused the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives
Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, of trying to destroy the party because
he was finishing his tenure as the party’s chairman.
The governor, who had in recent
time, been enmeshed in war of words with his party’s national chairman, took an
evaluation of Oyegun’s leadership of the APC and concluded that party leaders
must have overrated Oyegun’s capacity in allowing him succeed Chief Bisi Akande
as the National Chairman of APC.
Okorocha said that the Edo-born
politician has taken the party backward by several kilometres to the extent that
presently there is no state where the party does not have crisis or faction.
He maintained that the way Oyegun
pursued the issue of elongation showed how selfish and greedy he is.
Okorocha spoke in a statement
signed and made available to reporters in Owerri, the state capital, by his
Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo.
In the statement, he held that
the worst thing that would have happened to APC was to allow Oyegun continue as
the national chairman of the party, as according to him, it would have been
worst for the Party.
The governor said, “Chief Akande
never tried to destroy the Party because he was leaving as the Pioneer Chairman
unlike Chief Oyegun” whom he accused of trying to destroy the party because he
is leaving.
Okorocha continued, “He (Oyegun)
is not patriotic. In the case of Imo, he disobeyed two Court Orders with regard
to the Congresses in Imo and the inauguration of strange elements as the State
officials of the Party just to get at Governor Okorocha because of the issue of
elongation.
“And we have no option now than
to ask our lawyers to press for his imprisonment and that of Osita Izunaso and
all those who were involved in the lawlessness.
“The only thing Chief Oyegun has
achieved in his anger against Governor Okorocha is encouraging elements with no
electoral value like Osita Okechukwu and those from Imo to be insulting the
Governor. And these are people who cannot win their booths in an election.
“The same elements came together
during the Anambra state governorship election. The governor stayed away and at
the end of the day, they could not justify their noise making. They have also
started again. And these are people who have been running election since 2007
and have not won any.”
Recalling that Oyegun was quoted
to have said in an interview that the South-East and Imo APC stakeholders were
united against Okorocha, the statement said, “Let them hold South-East rally or
Imo rally at a venue and let Rochas hold his own at another location and let’s
see the outcome.”
The governor said he won his
election in 2011 without any of the media-created politicians and also won in
2015 without them and would make the party win in 2019 without them, dismissing
his opponents as noise makers.
He continued, “Oyegun does not
know, Imo APC members won’t allow any faction. The APC in Imo and even in the
South-East is Governor Okorocha’s making.
“And it will be foolish of
anybody to think that he would build the Party and allow cowards to take it
over. If they have the political strength, let them go and pick a party and
present a candidate, and it will be very interesting.
“And if Rochas Okorocha is no more the
political figure to watch in Imo, why then are they bothered about the ambition
of Uche Nwosu? Why is the issue of Uche Nwosu giving them unprecedented
headache? They are bothered because they feel that with the Governor behind
Uche Nwosu, he would win. And they are right.”
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