The power tussle between
Imo state Governor and some members of the All Progressives Congress in the
state has taken a huge turn.
Political allies have taken to the streets to jubilate for
paralysing Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha in the fight to take control of
the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“There have been wide jubilation in Imo because we have rescued
the party from Gov. Okorocha, we have made it impossible for him to get help
from anywhere, ’’ the Imo
stakeholders and bigwigs have said.
They said that they have made Okorocha politically irrelevant in
their determination to rescue the party from imminent collapse in the state.
Dr Theo Ekechi, who spoke to newsmen after a close-door meeting
with the APC national leadership on Thursday in Abuja, said the stakeholders
had overwhelming evidences against Okorocha.
This, he said, had made it impossible for the governor to get
attention from any quarter in the state and in the South-East region.
“He cannot run to any political figure in the state because none
is with him, he cannot approach any clergyman in the state.
“In his desperation, he ran to Sokoto, Daura and even to the
Vice President, but help has refused to come,” he said.
Ekechi said Rochas’s inaction was responsible for the problems
facing the party in the state and the South-East generally.
In a petition submitted to the party’s national leadership, the
stakeholders chronicled what they described as the governor’s sins and appealed
for state of emergency in the state.
He called on the party’s national chairman to bring to the
notice of President Muhammadu Buhari the crisis in Imo before it completely
gets out of hand.
Ekechi alleged that the state was being mis- managed under
Okorocha, adding that the governor was running the state like a personal
estate.
He also alleged that the governor was harassing and intimidating
perceived opponents in the state.
-NAN
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