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Oshiomhole destroying APC, may cost us five million votes – Okor
ocha
By: sparrow Date: November 1, 2018, 4:10 pm
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The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has said that the
national chairman of the governing All Progressives Congress
(APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is destroying the party by his handling
of the primaries to select candidates for the 2019 elections.
Mr Okorocha, who chairs the APC governors’ forum, spoke in an
interview with State House correspondents on Thursday after
meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said he has confirmed from the president that Mr Oshiomhole
does not have the backing of the presidency.
The Imo governor spoke a day after a national leader of APC Bola
Tinubu gave his backing to Mr Oshiomhole. Mr Tinubu also spoke
after meeting the president.
Excerpt:
Q: What brought you to see the president and what did you
discuss?
Okorocha: Gentlemen of the press, I am here to clear the air
that the presidency is behind what Oshiomhole is doing in some
of the states and which has affected our party negatively. And
from my understanding from Mr President, there is no such
directive for Oshiomhole to do anything illegal or create any
sort of injustice. So, Oshiomole is on his own in this whole
thing. There is no presidency’s support for him to refuse
candidates who won elections and give wrong candidates who
didn’t win election. This is the matter and I will simply say
that he is not with the consent of the presidency, he is on his
own.
I also requested that Oshiomole must learn to respect the rule
of law and obey court orders where they apply. This issue of
treating court orders as tissue papers must stop, it doesn’t
reflect well, the image of our party, he must act quickly to fix
the integrity of this party because his coming in ought to have
brought joy into the party and not sadness.
Q: Is the APC disintegrating?
Okorocha: Well, APC will not disintegrate for as long as the
person, Muhammadu Buhari, is still the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, and remains the leader of this party. So we
cannot give that credit to the chairman. He cannot disintegrate
this party, the party is still intact, just that many people are
hurt. Since his inception and after this primaries, we are
losing almost five million voters because of anger, protest
everywhere and he needs to be called to order, he has to respect
the rule of law, respect court orders and do the right thing –
obey court orders where applicable and not turn himself into
INEC.
Q: Tomorrow is the last day for the submission of candidates,
what is the true position regarding Imo State. Is it that
Oshiomhole is siding with Hope Uzodinma?
Okorocha: He cannot be standing on Hope Uzodinma because that
man did not win election, you cannot compare somebody who won
265,000 votes with somebody who won 7,000 votes. He (Hope
Uzodinma) never won the election and you cannot impose a
candidate who is unacceptable to the people, that is how serious
the matter is now. So he (Oshiomole) should do the right thing
and I have advised him severally to do the right thing before he
creates more disaffection in our party.
Q: It was reported today that the National Working Committee of
the APC has submitted the name of Hope Uzodinma to INEC, what is
the implication sir?
Okorocha: He can’t! I don’t think the National Working Committee
will do that because in the first place, the National Working
Committee sent a 13-man delegation who conducted election and 12
of them signed proving that Uche Nwosu won the election with
265,000 votes as against Hope Uzodinma who got less than 7,000
votes. So they can’t do that. And there is a letter to that
effect from the National Working Committee saying Uche Nwosu
won. There is a Certificate of Return given to Uche Nwosu. There
is a police report saying Uche Nwosu won. There is INEC report
saying Uche Nwosu won. So nobody can do that and if they do
that, that must be the worst imposition in the history of
Nigeria.
Q: Yesterday, the National Leader of your party, Tinubu came
here and said Oshiomole is a good man, he is working well and
those who
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