Imo APC speaks on call for Adams Oshiomhole’s resignation

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Imo APC speaks on call for Adams Oshiomhole’s resignation

 

The Imo State chapter of All Progressive Congress, APC, has passed a vote of confidence on the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.

The state chapter of the party said removing Oshiomhole would lead to serious crisis within the party.

A member of the National Working Committee, who also leads the party in the state, Marcellinus Nlemigbo made the remark while condemning the call for Oshiomhole’s resignation by the APC Deputy National Chairman (North) Lawan Shuaib.

In a letter he had made public few days ago, Lawal said the APC National Chairman has performed below expectation.

However, Nlemigbo while address newsmen yesterday in Owerri, the state capital described the call as “unpatriotic and in bad faith.”

He appealed to party members in the state to stand against any plan to destroy APC both at the state and federal levels.

According to Nlemigbo: “We, the APC in Imo State, have declared our total and unalloyed support for the national chairman of our party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

“We have absolute confidence in his leadership, which led the party to a historic victory in this year’s presidential elections

“Therefore, we see the call by the deputy national chairman (North), Sen. Lawal Shuaibu, for the national chairman to resign as unpatriotic and in bad faith.

“Anybody canvassing the removal of Oshiomhole does not have the interest of APC at heart because such an ill-advised move will definitely precipitate a big crisis in the party.”

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Gov. Okorocha's APC ordeal is nemesis – Ex-aide

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Gov. Okorocha's APC ordeal is nemesis – Ex-aide

 

Rex Anunobi, the immediate past special adviser on Trade and Investment to Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has described the travails of his former boss in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as nemesis at work.

Anunobi, who spoke with Daily Trust yesterday in Owerri, said what the governor was currently facing with regards to his certificate of return as senator-elect for Imo West District was what he meted out to some of his aides with who he defected to APC in 2015.

Anunobi accused Okorocha of not supporting his ambition to contest for the office of the National Organising Secretary of APC.

He said, “Thank God for a day like this. I remember how he treated most of us. I, Dr. Vitalis Ajumbe, Dr. Kelechi Okpaleke, Barr. Kingsley Ononuju, late Dr. Samfo Nwankwo, and so on.

“I remember the way he pleaded with me in 2015 and I mobilised all of them away from PDP then to join him in his new APC to ensure his re-election and Igbo support for Buhari.

“After victory, he and his family and privileged few cornered the sweat of all of us, without anything to show for our near suicide commitment in helping him back to power,” he said.

“Even when I consulted him to allow and support me to contest for the office of the National Organising Secretary of APC, he not only denied and disowned me, but sponsored a petition against me, and went ahead to bring out and funded another person against me,” he alleged.

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Imo Guber: Okorocha's Move To Impose His Son-Inlaw On Imo People Won't Work - Ajumbe

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Imo Guber: Okorocha's Move To Impose His Son-Inlaw On Imo People Won't Work - Ajumbe

A former Commissioner of Information in Imo state, and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Vitalis Ajumbe has vowed that the people of Imo state would resist any attempt by Governor Rochas Okorocha to impose his Chief of Staff and son-in-law, Uche Nwosu as governor of the state in 2019.

Speaking to newsmen shortly after an APC function in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia state, Ajumbe noted that the Governor has right to endorse whoever he want, but can not decide to Imo people who will be their next governor.

He pointed out that Imo people would choose their next governor at the appropriate time, insisting that Okorocha cannot force his in-law on the members of the party in the state.

Ajumbe said,”Governor Okorocha has the right to endorse any person. As a governor he has his structures. He has a right to endorse any person within his group”.

“But what I’m trying to say is that he cannot impose that on Imo people and APC. So, if he endorses Uche Nwosu, he has the right to endorse whoever he wants to support.

“That does not mean at the end, that person will fly. No. Imo people will decide at the poll. Let him endorse. But Imo people will elect.”

The APC chieftain expressed confidence that the APC primary election in the state would be free and fair, devoid of malpractices.

“The primaries is going to be free and fair. The delegates’ election will be free and fair. That very day Imo people will speak and Rochas”.

Okorocha had in February publicly endorsed his Chief of Staff, Mr. Uche Nwosu as next Imo governor in 2019.

But the endorsement has pitched Okorocha against majority stakeholders of APC in the state.

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BREAKING NEWS 2019 Election: Imo APC Unhappy With Okorocha's Family Politics, Petitions Buhari, Oyegun

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2019 Election: Imo APC Unhappy With Okorocha's Family Politics, Petitions Buhari, Oyegun

 

An All Progressives Congress, APC, group in Imo State under the aegis of the Imo APC Restoration Coalition, has reported Governor Rochas Okorocha to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun.

It called on Buhari and Oyegun to call Okorocha to order.

The coalition warned that with the way Okorocha was handling his succession plan, the APC may be heading for a shameful and colossal failure in the state in the 2019 elections.

It alleged that the endorsement of the son-in-law of the governor was being obtained through blackmail and coercion.

In a communique issued yesterday at the end of its meeting held at the country home of Dr. T.O.E Ekechi, former presidential campaign director on Planning and Strategy, in Imerienwe, and read by Dr. Ekechi on behalf of the coalition, the stakeholders said, “Having seen and witnessed contemptible, despicable and condemnable happenings in our great party in the state in recent times, we are convinced that unless urgent steps are taken to call certain people to order, the APC is headed for a shameful, abysmal and colossal failure in the 2019 elections.

“This will tragically cut across and, regrettably, affect the presidential, governorship, National Assembly and Houses of Assembly chances.

The coalition members expressed concern that “these endorsements are taking place in the hallowed orbit of the Imo State Government House under the watch of the governor.

“We are embarrassed because this theatre of the absurdity, as we have confirmed, has the full backing of Imo State Government as the person being endorsed, one Chief Uche Nwosu, his son-in-law, is also his serving Chief of Staff. As a matter of fact, this is an anomaly and points to a dangerous and destructive party politics of APC in Imo State.

“We, therefore, call our members to caution, as endorsements do not frankly reflect the true picture of Imo APC. We call on Governor Okorocha to act as a true unifier, a leader to ensure a level playing field for all APC aspirants in all positions.

“To that effect, we reject in its entirety, the endorsements of Nwosu as being currently carried out in our party. This is so, because, these leprous endorsements have the capacity and capability of truncating and dismantling the very cord that binds us together as family.”

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