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Why APC may have a serious setback in 2023 –Okorocha

Ezekiel Johnson
Ezekiel Johnson
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The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has expressed the fear that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, may have a serious setback in 2023.

The country will be due for another election in the year.

Okorocha expressed the fear on Monday shortly after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He based his fear on the manner the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole is running the party.

According to him, Oshiomhole was gradually turning APC to a regional minority political party.

His words:  “My fear now is that APC might have a serious setback in 2023 because the Oshiomhole-led executive is actually turning APC into a regional minority party which shouldn’t be because of his mistakes.”

He argued that in the last general election, for instance, the party did not win any governorship seat in the South East of the country.

He said that was a big setback for the party because when issues would be discussed in the party, there would be no contribution from the South East governors.

“Right now in the whole of South-East, we don’t have an APC governor. So if there is any discussion in Nigeria now within the APC governors and President Muhammadu Buhari, there would be nobody from the South-East. This is what the APC chairman has done in the South-East.

“I think it’s a capital attempt to frustrate the efforts of the South-East but I appeal to every Nigerian to support the cause of the South-East – their cause is germane and it should be supported in whatever position that is due them,” he said.

Expressing serious concern about the jostle for posts for the 9th National Assembly, Okorocha said the South East should be given its required post.

“I have been watching carefully what is happening in the National Assembly, it’s a very interesting drama. But all I ask of them is that they should consider the South-East in their calculations.

“This nation will not be properly balanced if South-East is not carried along properly in the affairs of the National Assembly. Nobody seems to be talking about the South-East; it looks like the South-East doesn’t have a place anymore. That is wrong, politically speaking and that will not be good for APC. Because there is going to be a bigger APC after President Muhammadu Buhari must have left the seat,” said.

Okorocha emphasised that “they shouldn’t think about giving South-East, whatever position for giving sake. You can’t just wake up and give them any position. South-East is a key primary zone in this country and if we don’t get the number one seat, we should get the number two seat.”

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