Okorocha

The embattled Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has boasted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is nothing in the South East without him.

He made the remark while warning the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), and a chieftain of the APC, Mr. Osita Okechukwu.
The Governor was reacting to reports in which Okechukwu accused him of ruining the APC in South-East.

The Governor was reacting to reports in which Okechukwu accused him of ruining the APC in South-East.
He disclosed that he had “toured the whole of South-East when nobody believed that APC was going to see the light of the day and succeeded in winning the governorship for the party in Imo, 24 out of the 27 members of the House of Representatives, one Senate and five House of Representatives seats for the party.”

A statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, claimed that the VON DG had continued his media attacks on Okorocha, saying “even when one had thought that with the 2019 elections over, he should have stopped his insults having seen that the election had proved that without him (Okorocha) there was nothing like All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-East in general and Imo in particular.”

The statement reads: “But prior to the 2019 election those playing the politics of 2023 in 2019 recruited men like Osita Okechukwu against Governor Okorocha, blackmailing him at the least opportunity they had, and gave the erroneous impression that without Okorocha, they could fly in Imo and South-East generally with APC.
But in the 2019 election, the fact spoke for itself, that Okorocha truly holds the ace of APC both in Imo and in the South-East generally.
And a careful look at the 2019 election results showed that Okorocha was in charge except that with the crisis men like Okechukwu created in Imo APC, INEC capitalized on that and I did some strange things.”
Okorocha said Okechukwu “lost all the elections for the party in his polling booth, ward and local government. Okorocha however challenged Okechukwu to publish the results of his booth, ward and local government in all the elections.
“He does not talk about APC in his state, but always talking about Imo APC because he knows, that is the only state in the South-East APC is grounded before they used wicked blackmail and unfounded propaganda to inject virus into the party.”

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Oshiomhole Ordered DSS To Push Me Out Of His Office – Rochas Okorocha 
The Outgoing Governor of Imo State, Rochas Anayo Okorocha has revealed that the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole once ordered his DSS security agent to push him out of his office.
Okorocha made this revelation while lamenting to pressmen over an alleged plot by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to deny him entry to the Senate following his ‘victory’ in the National Assembly Elections a few months ago.
Okorocha, in a recent press conference, alleged that the Electoral body and his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC are colluding to prevent him from getting his ‘Mandate’. He added that the image of INEC has been ‘bastardized’.
According to Premium Times, Okorocha said;

“The evil I feared in the PDP has befallen me 10 times in the APC. Last week, I wrote a letter to INEC for the first time, informing them of their wrongdoings and illegal actions to withhold my certificate on mere allegations of duress which was never founded, neither was there any committee set up to investigate the matter.

So, INEC on its own believed the reports of the Returning Officer without investigating the authenticity of the accusation. So, there was no issue of fair hearing at all.

What is important here is that INEC does not have the power to withhold the certificate of return, having declared the result.

I believe the INEC chairman is up to a game with the chairman of the APC, who is being used to frustrate my coming to the Senate, and this is politically motivated. I’ve given INEC enough time to correct itself and do the needful and issue me my certificate of return but to no avail.”

He also revealed that the chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole ordered his DSS security agent to push him out of his office in Abuja

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