IN Imo State, the former governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has described the APC congress in the state as a birthday party and not a congress. Okorocha, while reacting through his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo, said already, there was a substantive Appeal Court judgment bordering on the executives of the party in the state.
Okorocha said that in addition to the substantive Appeal Court judgment, there was an appeal pending in the Supreme Court over the issue.
“An appeal is pending in the Supreme Court and the case has not been decided and somebody said he is conducting a congress,” he added.
The former governor said he would not waste time reacting to such an issue, “when governor, Uzodimma, is aware and everyone knows that nothing happened.”
MEANWHILE, attempts by the PDP to pick a consensus candidate for the position of national secretary from the Southeast may have suffered a setback as another aspirant emerged yesterday to challenge Senator Sam Anyanwu, who had earlier been picked as the consensus candidate.
Although governors of the PDP and other leaders in the zone settled for Anyanwu last week in Enugu State as the consensus candidate, Chief Okey Muo-Aroh, a member of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), has also submitted his expression of interest and nomination forms for same position.
Speaking with newsmen shortly after submitting his forms for the position of National Secretary, Muo-Aroh dismissed claims of consensus arrangement, arguing that the practice of imposition “is the bane of the party in the Southeast.”
