Deadline for candidates’ withdrawals: Confusion in Okorocha, Amosun’s camps

Ahead of tomorrow’s deadline for the voluntary withdrawal of candidates for governorship and state legislative elections, there was tumult in the camps of two All Progressives Congress, APC governors denied footing in their state chapters of the party.

While Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State was making moves to ensure unity in his camp, there was confusion in the camp of Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State over the strong resistance to his approach by the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP.

The DPP in Imo State, Vanguard gathered, had offered Okorocha’s son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, its governorship ticket. The party was, however, strongly laying down what it described as frustrating demands.

Meanwhile, the determination of Governor Amosun’s protégées to find alternative platforms was actualised in the House of Representatives and the Ogun State House of Assembly as some of his allies switched parties to the Allied Peoples Movement, APM.

Vanguard, November 30, 2018

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