...Imo APC Governorship candidate says Okorocha, others risk expulsion over anti-party activities
Hope Uzodinma and Eze Madumere, governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Imo and the state’s deputy governor respectively have predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the South east convincingly in the February 2019 presidential election.
Both spoke in Owerri at a stakeholder’s meeting where they also sounded a note of warning that party members who are working at cross purpose over the election of Buhari will pay the prize.
The impending political cleansing was hinted during a crucial meeting of APC candidates led by Uzodinma, the Party’s standard bearer for 2019 governorship election with other high profile party leaders, including the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Madumere.
Uzodinma specifically pointed out that Governor Rochas Okorocha, Hon. Chike Okafor representing Okigwe South at the House of Representatives, Hon. Ugonna, Deputy Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly among others may may face expulsion from the party over alleged anti-party activities.
Uzodinma expressed surprise over the attitude of some of the candidates who, rather than focus and work along with the party are busy working for another party, which he described as not just a mere anti party but unpardonable action punishable by the extant laws of the party administration.
He emphatically assured that those playing such politics would become victims of expulsion, describing their actions as dangerous against the goal of the party.
Uzodinma thanked members of the party for their commitment and resilience towards retrieving the party from Okorocha who was on the verge of turning the party to a family business.
He insisted that the party had long produced a candidate to contest 2019 governorship election and wondered why few persons have not come to terms with the reality and work in unison with members to deliver the party at the 2019 general election, warning that they might become victims of change.
He called on all and sundry to join hands for the re-election of President Buhari, revealing that most leaders of the South East have keyed into his project for his sincerity of purpose in the Nigerian project and wholistic re-integration of South East and Ndi Igbo.
In the same vein Madumere, while supporting Senator Uzodinma’s candidature, called on the party faithful to close ranks to deliver APC at all levels, including the re-election of President Buhari whom he described as a considerate and passionate leader whose actions for the country have been wholly patriotic with utmost sincerity.
He also assured the party faithful of restoration of their lost dignity when Senator Uzodinma emerges as the Governor of the State.