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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