Former governor of Imo state and Senator representing Imo West at the National Assembly, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has appealed to the Hope Uzodinma-led government of Imo state to put the past behind and fully integrate him in the new government, insisting that APC in the state is now a large family.<\/p>\n
Senator Okorocha made this passionate appeal while addressing the people of Okigwe North recently at Anara central School Field during a mega rally organized for the APC Candidate for the federal constituency\u2019s rerun, Miriam Onuoha coming up on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Senator reminisced on the imbroglio which tore the party apart during its state Congresses and national convention.<\/p>\n
It would be recalled that Owelle Rochas Okorocha in his quest to install his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu as his successor, had moved for the removal of the then state chairman of APC in Imo, Hillary Ekeh and rooted for Uche Nwosu\u2019s loyalist, Dan Nwafor.<\/p>\n
The crisis later led to the division of the party into two factions viz, Hillary Ekeh-led, later Mercinus Nlemigbo executive and Dan Nwafor\u2019s.<\/p>\n
While Ekeh produced Hope Uzodinma as the Guber candidate, Dan Nwafor produced Uche Nwosu.<\/p>\n
This drama did not come without traces of insults, campaign of calumny, character assassination, war of words, name-calling etc from both factions.<\/p>\n
In his appeal, Owelle Okorocha noted that the party has not fully resolved the problem as that may continue to brew cold war between the governor and his (Okorocha\u2019s) boys.<\/p>\n
He asked that the APC under the authentic chairmanship of Prince Mercilinus Nlemigbo run an open door government that will incorporate his numerous boys.<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201cAPC is now a very large family. Although, we know that we still have some areas we need to mend fences, what is important is that APC family has won an election.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that everything will be taken care of in the course of time, calling on members to rally full support for the new governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former governor of Imo state and Senator representing Imo West at the National Assembly, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has appealed to the Hope Uzodinma-led government of Imo state to put the past behind and fully integrate him in the new government, insisting that APC in the state is now a large family. Senator Okorocha made this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,1018,501],"class_list":["post-20458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-imo","tag-okorocha"],"yoast_head":"\n