The internal wrangling within Imo state chapter of All progressives Congress (APC) appears to be deepening as stakeholders of the party in the state have called for the expulsion of Governor Rochas Okorocha from the party. The call was made by the National Organizing Secretary of the party, Osita Izunaso, Hope Uzodinma and Ifeanyi Ararume among other stakeholders in Imo state.
The group in a petition to the Leadership of the party in Abuja claimed that for the party to have successful electoral outing in the 2019 general elections, it must expel Okorocha.
The petition read in part;
“As our party chairman, kindly bring to the notice of our dear President that should the governor in his megalomania procure further violence in his child like tantrums, a state of emergency in Imo State would be a natural consequence. There’s no other state that the president visited five times to appeal to its people and yet we wobbled. Our party must rid itself of this incorrigible worm, he is indeed a cankerworm.
“This attempt to drag the state into further violence in the face of a non-existent state assembly only points to the complete breakdown of an already non-existent governance for which the state of emergency envisaged in the Section 305 of our Constitution is to be declared”.
The petition which was addressed to the National Chairman of the party and copied to the President, National Assembly, State Governors and the National Security Adviser was signed by Senators Ben Uwajimogu, Hope Uzodinma, Ifeanyi Araraume, Osita Izunaso, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Hon. Mike Ohia and Hon. Austin Chukwukere.
Also, the APC chairman in Oguta Local Government, who is the leader of all the APC local government chairmen in the state, Hon. Cassidy Ohamara equally aligned his group with the contents of the letter.
They thanked the National Working Committee of the party “for standing firm to the rules and guidelines of our party and upholding our duly conducted and video recorded congresses across our State, in spite of the unruly and unlawful conduct/misconduct of our state governor, who happens to be one of our party members”.
“You may thus be alarmed that with the near bankruptcy of our state, reeling in this wanton misgovernance, is yet the subject of the threat contained in the governor’s letter to you stating that he is aware of the burning of the Secretariat of our party. Whilst threatening further mayhem. He also has forwarded to you his videos of those he caught with result sheets (which the party did not report missing). The governor having arrested those people (who are contractors of Government House, Owerri), and having called the police and the media himself, proceeded to conduct the investigation himself”.
Others copied include Chairman and Deputy Chairman (South) of the Party, the Inspector General of Police, DG, Department of State Services as well as members of the National Working Committee NWC of the party.
