Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo
states, says the “funny politics” witnessed at Saturday’s ward congress of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) across
the country must stop.
Delta, Imo and Oyo were some of
the states that had cases of violence and ballot box snatching.
Jeremiah Oghoveta, a chairmanship
aspirant, in Delta was reportedly stabbed to death. In Imo, suspected thugs
attacked the party secretariat and held many to ransom for hours.
But speaking with journalists
after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, Okorocha said internal
democracy is the way to go.
“We expect internal democracy and
internal democracy is the way to go. This kind of funny politics that we are
playing must stop… we do not want people to carry ballot boxes and steal
results. This looks so primitive,” the governor said.
“I intimated Mr. President and we
will make sure that such things must stop. He spoke like the president and he
will take the necessary steps to correct this in our party APC not just in Imo state but across the whole
nation, and to also make sure that there is respect for internal democracy in
Imo state.”
On his part, Abdulaziz Yari,
governor of Zamfara, said anybody who has a complaint should channel it to the
committee that was set up by the party.
“You know in a democracy you
cannot expect everything to work 100 percent. But in our region from the
information available to us, everything went well in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto,
Zamfara and Kano, where people expected that there may be a problem, the
exercise was successful,” Yari said.
“But anybody that has complain,
there is a committee set up by the national executive of the party, they should
take their complains there so that they will be attended to.”
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