By Emma Ogbuehi
Former governor of Imo state, and the Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha has stated that he is still a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Okorocha made this declaration in a statement from his Special Adviser on media, Sam Onwuemeodo, after meeting with members of APC, of his rescue mission and the Daniel Nwafor-led faction of the party in the state. Okorocha insisted that his demand for a movement had nothing to do with quitting his APC political platform.
In the words of the Senator, “Our Party is APC. Don’t be confused when I said that there were bad people and good people in both APC and PDP; and that the good people in the two Parties should come together for the good of the nation. I was talking about a movement and not party.
“I have not left APC. I am still in APC. Nobody has stake in APC more than me. The worst insult I had in Imo and in the South-East in 2015, was because of APC and President Muhammadu Buhari. APC was formed by President Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, myself and few other people”.
He insisted that Daniel Nwafor and others, duly elected as the Executives of the Party remain the leaders of the party in the state, stressing that nobody can remove the members of the EXCO.
“The party executives can only be removed by convention. Whatever they do here without the duly elected party officials in the state, including the planned registration exercise, expected to begin on Monday, would be null and void. We do not recognize Governor Uzodinma’s APC in Imo. That’s not APC in Imo State. That’s PDP people. How many APC members are among his more than one hundred and twenty appointees? None of course”, Okorocha remarked.