The former State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Imo State chapter, Nze Ray Emeana has said that he joined the All Progressive Congress (APC) to support Governor Hope Uzodinma so that he will provide Owerri zone with the best opportunity to produce Governor after completion of his second term in office in 2027.
The former legislator who represented Owerri North in the Imo State House of Assembly said this while defecting to APC at the LGA party headquarters Awaka, Owerri, Imo State.
This, he said, is in line considering
the avowed commitment by Governor Uzodinma to the Imo Chatter of Equity and to hand over to an Owerri person in 2027.
Hon. Emeana decried the current fate of Imo PDP blaming it on the injustice meted to it by the then Iyochia Ayu led National Working Committee.
He condemned the fact that despite the groundswell of information available to Ayu and his gand of mercantile catel,they decided to foist an unpopular Gubernatorial Candidate of the Party in Imo State.
He said: “Iyochia Ayu and his NWC desperados refused to provide any guidelines for the conduct of theParty Primaries as provided by the Party Constitution and the Electoral Act”.
According to him, they decided against all known moral persuasions to allow the National Secretary to be the umpire in his own elections which led to other aspirants withdrawing from the race.
He said: “Today, Senator Anyanwu, is the PDP Guber Candidate, he is the National Secretary, he nominated the Deputy
Governorship Candidate and is hell-bent on taking over the Party Structure in the entire State buoyed by the then National Chairman, Senator Iyochia Ayu.”
He described it as the most immoral, and unacceptable to be, hence he resigned from the Party to stop further abuse to his conscience.
He said: “It is disheartening to see a house you have laboured with many other people to build being dismantled.”
The former party scribe who however welcomed the development said that it has opened his eyes to the opportunities to actualize the dream of a Governor of Owerri extraction.
He said: “If the due process in PDP were followed and a Candidate truly interested in contesting for the election with proven capacity for the November 11th Election had emerged maybe things would have been different.
He used the forum to formally announce his endorsement of Governor Hope Uzodinma for a second term in office as the Governor of Imo State while he called all his friends to respect my fundamental human right to do so and associates to respect his fundamental human right to do so.
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