Imo APC: Okorocha’s Allies, Others Team Up With Uzodinma’s Camp
Governor Hope Uzodimma has given indication that the state congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will soon take place in an environment where all party members will be carried along.
The governor spoke on Monday when he received in audience former secretary to the Imo State Government, George Eche, former APC Chairman in Imo state, Chief Hilary Eke, former commissioners and other political appointees in the administration of former Governor Rochas Okorocha who came to pledge their loyalty and support to his government.
The former commissioners and appointees said they were resolved to give Governor Uzodimma all the support he needed to succeed, including the effort he was making to ensure that the APC was made a strong and united party in Imo state and, by extension, the South East.
Uzodimma said the APC state congress will take place in an atmosphere devoid of rancour and bickering, even as he reiterated his resolve to build the party as a strong and united one.
The governor emphasised that APC members in the state should put the past behind them and focus on politics that would take care of today, yesterday and tomorrow. He reminded the party members that they were one and would only make progress in a united APC where the party was seen as supreme.
He said he was open to building a party that would serve the people and invited all members to come home and help him use his God-given powers to create happiness in Imo. “With effective, united, strong and viral APC in Imo state, there is the tendency for APC to spread and capture power in the South East by being in power, not only in Imo, but in the other four states of the zone,” Governor Uzodimma said.
The governor regretted that the local government election was yet to be held because of the coronavirus pandemic.
On the Okigwe senatorial bye election, he said he had no candidate of his own and that if he could vote, he would only vote for one of the 13 candidates like every other legible member of the APC in the state. He, therefore, enjoined all and sundry to forget about the old order and key into the new order that recognises the tenets of democracy.
Earlier, the leader of the team and former commissioner for petroleum in Imo state, Chief Jones Uzoka, said they came to pledge their unalloyed support for Governor Uzodimma’s administration and to support him to rebuild the party and avoid factionalisation. He acknowledged the positive performance of the governor and thanked him for working hard to bring them out from the political oblivion of the immediate past administration.
He also thanked the governor for his magnanimity to their group which included the return of their vehicles seized by the PDP short-lived administration in Imo state and pleaded for his help in returning their seized landed property.
Making clarification on the visit, former deputy governor of Imo state, Prince Eze Madumere, appealed to APC members in the state to bury the hatchet and cue into the new order, insisting that the government in power in Imo state was for all of them.
In a speech to welcome the guests, the chairman of APC in Imo state, Chief Marcellus Nlemigbo, told them that they were APC members and that they had renewed their membership by coming to the Government House. He pleaded with them to support the government of Governor Uzodimma.
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