The Senator representing Imo West and former governor of Imo
State, Chief Rochas Okorocha, on Monday took a swipe at
the All Progressives Congress, saying the party was hurriedly formed to hijack
power from the Peoples Democratic Party in 2015.
Okorocha, in an interview with journalists in Abuja, said he
and other progressive-minded politicians were perfecting a plan to form a new
political movement.
But the PDP appealed to the former governor to return to the opposition party instead of making the mistake he made in 2014.
According to Okorocha, from the body language of the
Nigerians, it is obvious that they are not satisfied with what is on ground in
Nigeria.
The Senator who is a founding member of the APC, last week
inaugurated a project of the Rivers State Government on the invitation of the
state Governor, Nyesom Wike.
At the event, he
called on the good people in the APC and
the PDP to come together and rescue Nigeria in 2023.
On Monday he said
there was urgent need for the regrouping of the ‘good politicians’ to
restore public confidence in governance and save the country.
“The movement for a new Nigeria has begun and we must come
together, I mean progressive Nigerians to make the country work”, Okorocha
said.
Asked if the promise of the new political movement for a new
Nigeria would not be similar to that of the APC in 2015, he stated that the APC
was hurriedly formed to take power from the PDP without much emphasis on the
character of those championing the course.
The ex-governor said, “The APC was a hurried arrangement. It
was hurriedly formed to take power when the then government was drifting. The
APC would have been better until people who were not members of the party;
people who came for congratulatory messages, hijacked the party and became
lords.”
In its reaction, the PDP said it was not in the least
worried by the plan by Okorocha and a few of his friends to form a new
political party.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola
Ologbondiyan, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents, in
Abuja, on Monday, explained that the PDP
was glad that more Nigerians especially people like the former Imo State
governor had seen the deceit the APC represented.
Ologbondiyan said, “Our advice to people like Okorocha is
for him to avoid making the same mistake twice, any party hurriedly put
together like the APC because of elections are bound to fall into the same
errors.
“He should rather come over to the PDP, a very structured
party with a pedigree of performance. We’ve made a few mistakes in the past and
we’ve learnt from them. Nigerians now know the difference between a properly
structured political party which has their interest at heart and an association
of angry men who only came together to grab power for power sake.”
When contacted, the National Secretary of the Caretaker/
Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC, Senator John Akpan Udoedeghe,
declined comments on Okorocha’s pronouncement on plans to float a new party.
He said, “The Senator is a respected member of our great
party, I have no comments.”
However, a high-ranking member of the party who is
conversant with the thinking within the party leadership said the party did not
entertain any fears.
The source said, “Politics is a game of numbers just as it
is a game of interests. So, if people want to come together and go through the
process of birthing a new platform can anyone seriously stop them.”
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