Governor Rochas Okorocha
| credits: File copy
| credits: File copy
The
All Progressives Congress in the South-East says the suspension of
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State from All Progressives Grand
Alliance is the final phase to merge APGA with the Peoples Democratic
Party.
The party noted that APGA’s romance with
the ruling party started before the 2011 general elections, when it
publicly declared its support for President Goodluck Jonathan of the
PDP.
The APC Publicity Secretary, Mr. Osita
Okechukwu, made this known in a statement after the party’s emergency
meeting in Enugu on Saturday.
It described Okorocha’s suspension as,
“laughable and a futile last minute means to stop him from leaving the
party with his array of supporters.”
The party added that with the death of
Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, APGA was collapsing into the PDP and
it was only wise Okorocha joined the APC.
It said, “Let us not forget that our
revered leader, Dim Ojukwu, was the first chairman, Board of Trustees of
the All Nigeria Peoples Party, and if he was alive, would have been the
first Igbo man to embrace the APC.”
The APC also said it would have been
wrong for Okorocha to return to the PDP because the party had failed to
reward Ndigbo after 14 years of unalloyed support.
Meanwhile, in his reaction, Okorocha on Sunday described his suspension as “irrelevant.”
Okorocha, in a statement by his Media
Assistant, Mr. Chinedu Offor, in Owerri, however, urged the people of
the state to remain calm and be law-abiding.
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