Does Okorocha imply problem for APC?

The lengthy-suppressed fury of members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Southeast towards Governor Rochas Okorocha subsequently burst out last Tuesday. It came whilst Mr. Osita Okechukwu, the director general of the Voice of Nigeria, VON in an uncommon step called out the Imo state governor as a liability to the party and its leading 2019 presidential aspirant, Muhammadu Buhari.

Okorocha, the only governor elected at the platform of the APC in the Southeast had come to regard himself as the visioner of the party in the Southeast region. He had in that vein approximately a year ago conferred the titular leadership of the party within the Southeast on the former president of the Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani. while party members from the region muttered, the governor went right into a ramble on how foundation members of the party like Dr. Chris Ngige, Dr. Ogbonnonya Onu have been undeserving to guide the party in the area. In Imo state, numerous pioneer members of the party were scandalised by means of the political foibles of the governor. certainly, one of the greatest injuries of the Okorocha story in Imo is the muscling out of some of the party’s most conscientious individuals which include Uche Onyegocha, the former member of the house of Representatives.

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Onyegocha’s historical role in Igbo political renaissance is signposted with the aid of the fact that he became the first person ever elected on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, having been elected to the house in the first election the party stood for in 2003.

 Onyegocha’s ethical fibre was further accentuated while he stood out as perhaps the best Igbo member of the house of Representatives who turned down the N50 million third term cash. An early supporter of the 2015 Buhari presidential aspiration, Onyegocha like numerous early supporters of the president became frozen out from the government that was inaugurated. At home, the political foibles of his governor pressured him out of the APC last year.

So when Okechukwu intervened last Tuesday to the effect that Governor Okorocha should not be seen as the poster boy of the APC inside the Southeast, he seemingly meant sense to a few people. Mr. Okechukwu’s intervention came in the wake of the continuing brouhaha that arose from Okorocha’s plans to foist his son (in law), Uche Nwosu as the APC’s governorship candidate in the 2019 election in Imo state. That scheme is already galvanising leading Imolites consisting of Archbishop Anthony Obinna of the Roman Catholic Church to action.

The Imo authorities, however, sees all such oppositions to its political schemes as treachery, and a call to warfare. Okechukwu had in an interview with a national newspaper alleged “What we lost in APC is because of him. he is a man who doesn’t trust in himself, and he tells himself lies.” Okorocha’s media group which does not waste time to reply to any criticism was quick with his spokesman, Sam Onwuemeodo replying thus: “Mr. Okechukwu is among those who have the inaccurate feeling that the only way they are able to develop in APC is by attacking or pulling down Governor Rochas Okorocha. And the person has been doing it religiously with out a response from us.” Okechukwu, Dr. Onu, the late Prof. Dora Akunyili have been among the earliest facilitators of the Buhari political mission. So whilst Okechukwu alleged as he did last Tuesday that Okorocha must no longer be visible as a poster boy for Buhari’s intentions towards Ndigbo, he likely can also have said the apparent. but, in the light of allegations of discrimination against Ndigbo via the Buhari administration particularly, Okechukwu’s projections of himself as a higher apostle of the Buhari philosophy can also be a difficult sale.

So, head or tail, Ndigbo say that they're at a loss whoever between Okorocha or Okechukwu sees himself as a better champion of Buhari in the Southeast. that is what is called the satan’s opportunity.