Following opposition by a section of the political class in Imo State that the state governor, Rochas Okorocha dumped the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA) led by late Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu that brought him to power for the All Progressives Congress(APC), the governor has declared that the late Ojukwu would not only have given his blessings but would have joined the APC.
He noted that the late Ikemba Ojukwu while alive had been concerned with how to launch Ndi-Igbo back to the mainstream of Nigerian politics after the civil war.
Okorocha’s assertion is contained in a statement issued in Owerri yesterday by his senior special assistant on media , Sam Onwuemeodo.
“ That was why, when he came back from exile in 1982, he did not join the Nigeria Peoples Party, NPP, that was somewhat ethnic, but joined the National Party of Nigeria, NPN, that was national both in outlook and in operations.
And the NPN then unlike the PDP of today, had an Igbo man as vice president and other Igbo sons and daughters in sensitive positions,” the statement reads.
It further stated that Ikemba Ojukwu also joined APGA at the time he did to protest against the marginalisation of Ndi-Igbo by the PDP with no Igbo holding any sensitive position either in the PDP-led federal government or in the party.
“Ikemba Ojukwu would have therefore joined the APC with other progressives across the country having seen the party as the one that has good opportunities for the Igbos, even to become the president of the country.
Since Ojukwu had died, God gave Governor Okorocha the wisdom and the vision to take Ndi-Igbo to APC.
What men and women of goodwill of Igbo extraction should do, is to be grateful to the Imo governor for leading the Igbos into APC,” the statement added.
The statement also stated that it would have been politically suicidal and dangerous if governors and people from other major ethnic groups in the country would be in APC and no governor of Igbo extraction identified with it .
The statement claimed that a total of 637,000 Imo residents registered with the APC during the last registration exercise in the state.
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