Frontline governorship aspirant in Imo State and deputy speaker of the
House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has decried campaign of
calumny targeted at him by some aspirants seeking the ticket of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the primary due to hold Monday December
8th, 2014.
The deputy speaker also raised the alarm over rising negative statements
against the party that may put PDP in untoward light in the eyes of the
Imo public ahead of the general elections, calling on leaders and elders
to call those involved to order.
In a statement today by the Emeka Ihedioha Governorship Campaign
Organization signed by its Director General, Chief Chris Okewulonu, Rt.
Hon. Ihedioha noted that he has worked very hard to secure the support and
endorsements of delegates to the primaries and key stakeholders of the PDP
especially in Imo State while some aspirants stayed aloof.
According to him, “it is noteworthy that while Rt. Hon. Ihedioha was
working very hard on the field and seriously marketing himself to party
elders, leaders, and faithful across the 27 Local Government Areas of Imo
State these past years, these aspirants were exuding in false pride and
unfortunate history of political accident in our polity,” adding: “A
resort to maligning Rt. Hon. Ihedioha is perhaps the only response left
for the sponsors of this plot to secure little prominence and spurious
gains in their political standing ahead of the primary having failed in
name dropping, peddling empty togas of ‘anointment from above’ and signs
that political accident would not be an option in the primary election.”
Part of the statement reads: “It has come to the notice of the Emeka
Ihedioha Campaign Organization plots by some desperate aspirants to the
governorship ticket of our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
in Imo State to bring the party down should they lose at the primary.
“The plots involve; deliberate dissemination of false information,
misinformation, propaganda and character assassination by those who have
no response to the unassailable frontline standing of Rt. Hon. Emeka
Ihedioha, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives to clinch the
governorship ticket at the party primary on December 8th, 2014.
“Consequently, the aspirants have instructed their agents, fronts and
wayfarers to unleash a deluge of garbage on Ihedioha in the media,
especially social media since the last few days. I wish to alert the PDP
leadership, delegates, and stakeholders to this mischievous plot and warn
that it could get worse due to their desperation, until the primaries are
over.
“For the record, Rt. Hon. Ihedioha has been a major pillar of strength of
our great part, rallying, mobilizing and providing resources and direction
to rebuild the PDP after the painful loss of executive power in the state
in 2011. He has stuck with the party through thick and thin knowing that
as a founding member, his political fortunes are tied to the PDP unlike
some milk and honey chieftains whose membership at any point in time is
out of convenience. He has made his marks and paid his dues and indeed
delegates to the primaries know this too well to be swayed by the knee
jerk antics of these politicians.
“Now that it has dawned on them that Rt. Hon Emeka Ihedioha (Omenke
ahuruanya) will by the grace of God, emerge victorious at the primary,
they have resorted to acts unbecoming ‎of true party loyalists and
threatened to pull down the roof over the Umbrella. This will not succeed.
Rather, PDP will emerge stronger and more charged to reclaim Imo State
from the rapacious APC government of Owelle Rochas Okorocha.”