Imo states, Mr. Rochas Okorocha says the “funny politics” witnessed at
Saturday’s ward congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) across
the country must stop.
Delta, Imo and Oyo were some of the states that had cases of violence and
ballot box snatching.
Jeremiah Oghoveta, a chairmanship aspirant, in Delta was reportedly
stabbed to death. In Imo, suspected thugs attacked the party secretariat
and held many to ransom for hours.
But speaking with journalists after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari on
Sunday, Okorocha said internal democracy is the way to go.
“We expect internal democracy and internal democracy is the way to go.
This kind of funny politics that we are playing must stop… we do not want
people to carry ballot boxes and steal results. This looks so primitive,”
the governor said.
“I intimated Mr. President and we will make sure that such things must
stop. He spoke like the president and he will take the necessary steps to
correct this in our party APC not just in Imo state but across the whole
nation, and to also make sure that there is respect for internal democracy
in Imo state.”
On his part, Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara, said anybody who has a
complaint should channel it to the committee that was set up by the party.
“You know in a democracy you cannot expect everything to work 100 percent.
But in our region from the information available to us, everything went
well in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kano, where people expected
that there may be a problem, the exercise was successful,” Yari said.
“But anybody that has complain, there is a committee set up by the
national executive of the party, they should take their complains there so
that they will be attended to.”