the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomole accusing him
of conducting fraudulent party primaries and destroying the party in the
southeast.
The Governor’s reaction was sequel to the suspension slammed on him
alongside his Ogun state counter Ibikunle Amosun, the Minister of Niger
Delta Affairs Usani Uguru and Director- General of Voice of Nigeria, (VON)
Mr. Osita Okechukwu, during the National working committee NWC meeting
held in Abuja on Friday.
Reacting to the development via his Chief Press Secretary, CPS, Mr. Sam
Onwuemeodo in Owerri, the Imo state capital, Okorocha alleged that
Oshiomhole was determined right from the outset to destroy the party in
the South-East.
He accused the former Edo state governor of having a hand in all the
crisis in the South-East states, arising from what he described as the
fraudulent manner he conducted the party primaries.
The governor, recalled that in 2015, he joined the merger that gave birth
to APC at the risk of his second tenure and was called all sorts of
unprintable names, yet, he won the governorship election and delivered 24
out of the 27 members of the House of Assembly for APC, two House of Reps
members and one Senator.
According to him, “In 2019, Oshiomhole felt that such a man should be
treated with disdain. He handed over the governorship ticket of the party
to Hope Uzodinma who has never resigned his membership of the PDP on the
floor of the Senate like others did, giving all kinds of flimsy excuses.
“And if Oshiomhole had meant well for APC and Imo people in particular,
would he have given the ticket of the party to a man facing five
corruption charges and having travel ban slammed on him, to be the party’s
candidate?
“In February 23, 2019, presidential and National Assembly election,
Governor Okorocha won in ten, out of the twelve local governments in Orlu
zone to emerge winner for Imo West senatorial district.
“He also delivered four House of Representatives candidates on the
platforms of APC and AA respectively, with one Senate seat and two House
of Representatives seats outstanding.
“And when the APC members across the nation are still celebrating the
success of the party in the presidential and National Assembly elections,
Oshiomhole in his wisdom or lack of it, felt that the best action in the
circumstance is to suspend two governors who did well in the election,
even when he played safe in 2015 and 2019 in Edo State without any known
pressure.
“Again, Oshiomhole coming up with the purported expulsion this time was
only acting out of the fear that God in his infinite mercy could give
Governor Okorocha a role to play in the Senate, in the overall interest of
the nation.
He added that ” Men like him hardly sleep with their two eyes closed, they
always sleep with their eyes open because they have murdered sleep with
their actions and inactions.
“And unfortunately for him, the purported expulsion can’t stand because
the law has taken care of it even long before now,” he stated.