● PDP candidate promised Ajaero senatorial ticket in 2027

A group, Imo Progressives Movement (IPM), has raised the alarm that Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in Imo State, Senator Samuel Anyanwu also known as Samdaddy, are in political alliance to destabilise the state ahead of Saturday’s governorship election.

National ccoordinator of IPM, Hon Eugene Dibiagwu, who also represents Ohaji Egbema/Oguta/Oru West federal constituency in the House of Representatives, alleged that Ajaero, Senator Anyanwu and some PDP campaign managers held secret meetings in Abuja, where the PDP candidate promised Ajaero that he would nominate the Secretary to the State Government in Imo State if the PDP wins the November 11, 2023 election.

Dibiagwu said, part of the resolution reached at the PDP Abuja meeting with Ajaero was that he would be given the PDP senatorial ticket for Owerri zone in 2027.

According to the IPM national coordinator, these were what motivated Ajaero to flout the court order and mobilise thugs to destabilise Imo State.

He alleged that the IPM has also uncovered political dealings between Ajaero and Anyanwu, to instigate anarchy and cause the removal of the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde ahead of the November governorship poll.

The lawmaker who accused Ajaero, who hails from Imo, of hating his people and Governor Uzodimma, said: “The deal is to throw Imo into anarchy so that the federal government will sack heads of security agencies so that they can import thugs from Edo and other places.”

Dibiagwu said Ajaero’s attackers were angry members of his union who were not happy with his dictatorial tendencies and his determination to dislodge the authentic leadership of the NLC in Imo State.

The IPM national coordinator said Ajaero was fully aware that his attackers were irate NLC members but chose to accuse the police, who defended and protected him. He said Ajaero was neither abducted nor arrested by the police as he claimed.

“So, Ajaero’s decision to blame his ordeal on the state g

overnment and the police was simply part of of the PDP’s script to create crisis that would cause a regime change in Imo and also blackmail the police authorities into sacking the competent Commissioner of Police in the Imo state” Dibiagwu said.

He said his organisation has passed a vote of confidence on the Imo State Commissioner of Police, and urged the federal government to ignore the demands of Ajaero and Labour to remove the police chief from the state.

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November 5, 2023

IMO PROGRESSIVES MOVEMENT (IPM)

Text of World Press Conference

IPM Uncovers Shocking Details of the Dirty Roles Assigned by PDP to the Infamous Political Mercenary, one Joe Ajaero, to Cause Anarchy in Imo State ahead of Governorship Election

– Exposes Political Deal between Ajaero and Imo PDP Governorship Candidate

Good afternoon, Gentlemen of the Press.

We have brought you here today to make some very clear statements about the political situation in Imo State. We immensely appreciate your response even within a very short notice. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

It is pertinent to recall that when we flagged off IPM’s campaigns for the reelection of Governor Hope Uzodimma about two weeks ago, we made a vow to Imo people to end the retrogressive pattern of politics which has been the bane of our state. That pattern of haywire politics is defined by cruel conspiracies and destructive propaganda, and resort to primitive violence in pursuit of state power. We also promised to unmask and expose those who indulge in such filthy and anti-state machinations. This is, therefore, the substance of today’s conference.

Gentlemen of the Press, the election of one Comrade Joe Ajaero as President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) brought some excitement to Imo people. Across all socio-political cleavages, our people celebrated the fact that the very first Imo man in the history of the country had risen to lead the Organized Labour in Nigeria.

But the excitement of Imo people was short-lived when Ajaero, briefly after assuming office, declared in a press statement that Imo would become a ghost town under his watch as NLC President. It was at that point that discerning minds in our state knew that, far from having any agenda to lead the working men and women of Nigeria to a prosperous destination, Ajaero was actually on a political mission to drag his home state into anarchy, misery, social strife, bloodshed and doom.

To execute this plot of making Imo a land of bones and skulls, Ajaero immediately invaded the Imo state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress to dismantle its leadership and impose his own lackeys as leaders of the chapter. But the comrades in the Imo state chapter stood strong and stiffly resisted the attempt by Ajaero to foist his boys on them.

Since then, Joe Ajaero has never relented in unleashing his thugs and hoodlums to attack innocent Imo workers at every NLC event in the state. His grouse is that the workers in Imo are not willing to yield to his malicious deception and allow themselves to be deployed as willing-tools for the achievement of his personal destructive agenda.

Simply put, Ajaero wants Imo workers to lie that they are being owed by the Government, even when no single worker is being owed a dime. Ajaero wants Imo workers to fight dirty and destroy Imo state and make it a ghost town as already enunciated in his manifesto. Ajaero hates Imo state. He hates the Government of Senator Hope Uzodimma in Imo State. He hates the progress of Imo state. He hates to see light and life in Imo state. He hates the fact that Imo has failed to become a devastated battlefield. He feels frustrated at every good news about Imo state. He is an avowed enemy of the state.

Gentlemen of the Press, barely one week to the 2023 governorship election in Imo state, Joe Ajaero, who has now been authoritavely discovered to be a core political mercenary of the PDP, chose to come to Imo state to enforce the deal he struck with the Imo state governorship campaign council of the PDP.

In clear terms, the summary of the deal is to throw Imo into darkness, anarchy and a very bitter political crisis, so as to compel the Federal Government to sack the heads of the security agencies in the State. This is the only way the PDP is plotting to whittle down the effectiveness of the security establishment and pave the way for the importation of armed militants from Edo and Rivers states into the state for the governorship election. This is the greatest strategy of the fated PDP. But we can assure them that is already dead on arrival.

The following salient facts are to be noted:

1. Joe Ajaero as a political mercenary came to Imo state last week to lead a protest even when there was a subsisting court order restraining him from embarking on such protest. His deft violation of court order and desperation to hold a protest within a few days to the governorship election clearly explains the political undercurrents behind his misadventure

2. Joe Ajaero is fully aware that his attackers were angry members of his union who got infuriated with him over his dictatorial tendencies, particularly his determination to dislodge the authentic leadership of the NLC in the state. He is aware that he was neither abducted nor arrested, rather he was defended and protected by the police. So, Ajaero’s decision to blame his ordeal on the State Government and the police was simply part of of the PDP’s script to create crisis that would cause a regime change in Imo and also blackmail the police authorities into sacking the competent Commissioner of Police in the Imo state.

3. There was never any time that the Imo state chapter of the NLC made complaints to Ajaero about any dispute with the State Government. Who then invited Ajaero to Imo state for a protest? Since Imo NLC never registered any displeasure against the Government, what was Ajaero’s mission in the State? Obviously, he was keeping his part of his bargain with the PDP.

4. What Imo people must know is that the fundamental issue here is that a series of secret meetings had held in Abuja between Joe Ajaero and some frontline PDP campaign managers of Samdaddy’s governorship project in which certain resolutions were reached. First, Ajaero was promised that he would nominate the Secretary to the State Government in Imo if PDP wins the governorship election in the state. And, second, Ajaero was promised the PDP senatorial ticket for Owerri zone in 2027. These are the political motives that have driven Ajaero to break the law and lend himself as a vessel for the destruction of Imo state!

5. By cutting off power supply to Imo state, Ajaero has proven that he is indeed determined to crush the ordinary people in Imo who cannot afford alternative sources of energy. How can this same man claim he is fighting for the people? This is the reason Imo people must now unite and rebuke this common enemy who is bent on sinking the entire state just to realize his selfish political ambitions.

Finally, IPM passes vote of absolute confidence in the Imo State Commissioner of Police and the Director of State Security Service, and urges the Federal Government to completely ignore the mischievous demands by the opposition and their affiliates to tinker with the security leadership in Imo state, given that the ploy of the opposition is unarguably to cause the breakdown of law and order so as to overrun the state during the Saturday’s governorship election.

Thanks for your attentiveness.

Signed:

Hon. Eugene Dibiagwu

National Convener/Facilitator, Imo Progressives Movement (IPM)

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