“Oshiomole Is Fighting Me Because Of 2023 Presidency”

Rochas Okorocha has faulted the party chairman for suspending him at a time when the party was celebrating its success for the Presidential and National Assembly elections, in spite his contributions to the partys success.Okorocha via a statement issued on Friday in Owerri by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, was reacting to his suspension by the party.

He said the suspension was illegal and would not hold.

He alleged that the party had been overrun by crisis in the South-East states mainly because of the fraudulent manner with which primaries were conducted by the chairman.

The governor faulted the party chairman for suspending him at a time when the party was celebrating its success for the Presidential and National Assembly elections, in spite his contributions to the party’s success.

In 2015, I joined the merger that gave birth to APC at the risk of my second tenure yet I won the governorship election.

I delivered 24 out of the 27 members of the House of Assembly for APC, two House of Representatives members and one senator.

When the APC members across the nation are still celebrating the success of the party in the Presidential and National Assembly elections, Oshiomhole in his wisdom, felt that the best action in the circumstance was to suspend two governors who did well in the election, even when he played safe in 2015 and 2019 in Edo without any known pressure,he said.

Okorocha said that APC would outlive the chairman, especially in the South-East and in Imo in particular, adding that men like him hardly sleep with their two eyes closed.

The governor linked his suspension to the much talked about 2023 presidency for Ndigbo, adding that Oshiomole was against his ambition of becoming a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. According to the release, “We have been inundated with calls from well meaning Nigerians over the purported expulsion of Governor Rochas Okorocha by Adams Oshiomhole led National Working Committee (NWC) of All Progressives Congress, APC. “Adams Oshiomhole was determined right from the outset to destroy APC in the South-East and this was unknown to party Chieftains from the zone who had genuinely supported his chairmanship.” Okorocha said: “He is playing the politics of 2023 in 2019 and in playing it, he has thrown caution to the wind. “In all the South-East states there are crises and all arising from the fraudulent manner he Conducted the primaries. “In 2015, Governor Okorocha had joined the merger that gave birth to APC at the risk of his second tenure and was called all sorts of unprintable names.