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Okorocha throws veiled parting punch at Oyegun, says he was weak and inactive

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I have no record of witch-hunting, I’m too godly to think evil against anyone– Okorocha

Imo State governor and chairman Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday threw what seemed a parting shot at the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

According to Okorocha, the ruling party had remained “very weak and very inactive”, under the leadership of Oyegun.

He attributed different crises that often exist between the executive and legislative arms of government as emanating from the ruling party’s weakness and inactive problem.

The governor stated this at the Eagles Square, where the ruling APC held its two-day national convention, when he spoke to Channels Television.

He said, “Our (APC) problem has always been a very weak party. The party has been very weak and very inactive and that was why you see the crisis between executive and the National Assembly.”

According to the Imo governor, had the ruling party been a strong party, what has been happening between the two arms of government would not have existed.

Okorocha expressed hope of seeing a better and stronger APC under the leadership of the new national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, adding that the party with the new development would now make the required move to settle the dispute and prepare for the 2019 general elections.

“I am one of the people who said ‘no elongation, let’s have congresses’ and you see we are coming out better for it. Once this is done we will have a better party structure and the party will be back alive.

“If we have a strong party, this will not happen, and we are hoping that things will change under the leadership of Adams Oshiomhole and get better.

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“We have new minds and new people thinking right to handle the affairs of the party at the national level and it will move forward. I have no doubt that APC will make it in 2019, all things being equal,” he said.

Since the APC sacked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the ruling party in 2015, the Presidency and the legislative arms have continued to have one disagreement or the other despite the fact that the APC has majority members in the legislature.

While the issue involving the lawmakers and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, is yet to settle, the National Assembly and the Presidency are currently embroiled in a heated argument over alleged illegal insertions into the 2018 budget.

 

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