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The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has dismissed Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State as a political nomad and vowed to move against him as the party would ask the court to remove him from office having dumped APGA.
Imo state Governor, Rochas Okorocha had earlier defected from the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) to the newly registered All Progressive Congress (APC). The APGA is reportedly bitter over the governor’s defection and recent speeches in which he alleged that, eighteen out of the twenty two state chairmen have also defected to APC.
According to This Day, Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, National Secretary of the APGA who addressed journalists in Abuja yesterday, said "Our attention has been drawn to publications of yesterday that 22 APGA state chairmen have declared for APC. For clarity sake and to put the record straight, only five party state chairmen have defected to APC and other five officers of the party. The others who claimed to state chairmen are fake”.
Shinkafi explained that the entire southeast zone was regarded as the home base of APGA and the party has so far won elections in the area.
"In 2011, people voted APGA not Okorocha in Imo State. Imo State is an APGA state and we are going to show APC and Okorocha that the state belongs to APGA by defeating them in the 2015 general election”.
"Governor Okorocha could be described as a political nomad having sworn on election on the platform of APGA after several disappointing outing in other parties, that he would never quit the party.
“The same Governor Okorocha could now come out openly to say that APGA is dead in the state", he said.
On the likely impact of the defection of the five party chairmen, Shinkafi said their exit was rather a blessing to the party since most of them had remained dormant without any significant impact on the fortunes of the party.
"Okorocha is very good friend of mine but since he has gone ahead to do the wrong thing we are going to move against him. APC is dead on arrival in the south east because they will not win even a councillor hip election in the area. If elections are conducted free and fair, APC will not win any election in the whole of the south east", he added.
Imo state Governor, Rochas Okorocha had earlier defected from the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) to the newly registered All Progressive Congress (APC). The APGA is reportedly bitter over the governor’s defection and recent speeches in which he alleged that, eighteen out of the twenty two state chairmen have also defected to APC.
According to This Day, Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, National Secretary of the APGA who addressed journalists in Abuja yesterday, said "Our attention has been drawn to publications of yesterday that 22 APGA state chairmen have declared for APC. For clarity sake and to put the record straight, only five party state chairmen have defected to APC and other five officers of the party. The others who claimed to state chairmen are fake”.
Shinkafi explained that the entire southeast zone was regarded as the home base of APGA and the party has so far won elections in the area.
"In 2011, people voted APGA not Okorocha in Imo State. Imo State is an APGA state and we are going to show APC and Okorocha that the state belongs to APGA by defeating them in the 2015 general election”.
"Governor Okorocha could be described as a political nomad having sworn on election on the platform of APGA after several disappointing outing in other parties, that he would never quit the party.
“The same Governor Okorocha could now come out openly to say that APGA is dead in the state", he said.
On the likely impact of the defection of the five party chairmen, Shinkafi said their exit was rather a blessing to the party since most of them had remained dormant without any significant impact on the fortunes of the party.
"Okorocha is very good friend of mine but since he has gone ahead to do the wrong thing we are going to move against him. APC is dead on arrival in the south east because they will not win even a councillor hip election in the area. If elections are conducted free and fair, APC will not win any election in the whole of the south east", he added.