Politics
Gov Okorocha fires back at Oyegun
Imo State governor and chairman, Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) has lambasted the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
He regretted that the leadership of the APC at the beginning over rated Oyegun’s capacity, even as he accused the party chairman of taking the party “backward by several kilometres to the extent that today, there is no state that the party does not have crisis or faction.”
Oyegun had recently told newsmen, while responding to the governor’s claim that he was behind his (Okorocha’s) travails in Imo State, that the troubles the PGF chairman is currently facing in his state was because there are united voices against him.
But in a statement entitled “APC Leaders Over-Rated John Oyegun’s Capacity At The Beginning” and signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, on Tuesday, Okorocha accused Oyegun of causing more harm than good to the APC.
The statement read, “With the manner Chief John Oyegun has piloted the affairs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), it is obvious that the party leaders must have over-rated his Capacity in allowing him to succeed Chief Bisi Akande as the National Chairman of the party.
“Chief Oyegun has taken the party backward by several kilometres to the extent that today, there is no State that the Party does not have crisis or faction.
“Again, the way Chief Oyegun has pursued the issue of elongation also showed how selfish and greedy, he is. He is not interested in the well-being or future of the party, but only interested in staying put as the National Chairman of the Party. And that is why he is after anybody who opposed the tenure elongation.
“The worst thing that would have happened to APC is to allow Chief Oyegun to Continue as the National Chairman of the Party. It would have been worst for the Party. Chief Akande never tried to destroy the Party because he was leaving as the Pioneer Chairman. But Oyegun wants to destroy the Party because he is leaving. He is not patriotic.
“In the Case of Imo, he disobeyed two Court Orders with regard to the Congresses in Imo and the inauguration of strange elements as the State officials of the Party just to get at Governor Okorocha because of the issue of elongation. And we have no option now than to ask our lawyers to press for his imprisonment and that of Osita Izunaso and all those who were involved in the lawlessness.
“The only thing Chief Oyegun has achieved in his anger against Governor Okorocha is encouraging elements with no electoral value like Osita Okechukwu and those from Imo to be insulting the Governor. And these are people who cannot win their booths in an election.
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“The same elements came together during the Anambra State governorship election. The governor stayed away and at the end of the day, they could not justify their noise making. They have also started again. And these are people who have been running election since 2007 and have not won any.
“Chief Oyegun was also quoted to have said in an interview that the South-East or Imo APC Stakeholders are united against Governor Okorocha. Let them hold South-East rally or Imo rally at a venue and let Rochas hold his own at another location and let’s see the outcome.”
Okorocha has been having a running battle in Imo over the control of the state with some APC stakeholders led by his own deputy governor, Prince Eze Madumere.
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