Imo State Governor Rochas
Okorocha has told the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Lanre Issa-Onilu, to let the Imo State chapter be.
According to the governor,
Issa-Onilu and his cohorts have done enough harm by imposing an intruder and
member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governorship candidate.
Okorocha, in a statement by his
Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, said: “It has become necessary to appeal
to the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr.
Lanre Issa-Onilu, and those behind him, to please leave the Imo State chapter
of the party alone after inflicting deep cut on the party by imposing a known
PDP member as the governorship candidate.
“Twenty-four hours to the
presidential rally in Owerri, Mr. Issa-Onilu had no other contribution to make
than to raise false alarms, and making disturbing claims that APC has removed
Governor Rochas Okorocha as the campaign coordinator. He added that APC has
alerted the police and DSS of plots by Okorocha and Uche Nwosu to disrupt the
rally.
“It is unfortunate that in their
effort to justify whatever they had eaten over the governorship ticket, they
have decided to be callous about the whole thing. Otherwise, they would have
known that the rally is Okorocha’s event.
“In any case, Governor Okorocha
has never been the party’s state campaign coordinator. He is rather President
Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign coordinator as he was among those inaugurated by
the President, and Issa-Onilu and his group cannot remove who they never
appointed. So, his claim was borne out of ignorance.
“To say the least, Imo is calm.
Governor Okorocha is duly in-charge. The presidential rally will hold, and
peacefully too. They had raised that false alarm to discourage the president
from attending the rally like they did during the presidential rally for youths
and women.
“The point is that truth lives
while lies do not live. These Abuja-based politicians have fed them with lies
and they took or bought the lies wholesale. Otherwise, how would someone think
that a man who went to the Senate through the court would now know Imo Politics
more than a man who has won two governorship elections, and on the platforms of
parties that were not in power at the centre?”
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