Ihedioha destroying APC legacy in South-East — Okorocha

Senator Rochas Okorocha, the immediate past governor of Imo State, has said that his successor, Governor Emeka Ihedioha, is out to destroy the All Progressives Congress (APC) legacies he instituted as a governor in the state.

Okorocha lamented that Ihedioha is destroying projects executed by his administration as a way of discrediting his achievements and that of APC in the South-East.

The former Imo State governor, Okorocha, who chided the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)administration in the state for fighting him over the loss of the party in 2011 and 2015 general elections to him and APC, said Ihedioha and PDP were playing the politics of how to remain in power in the state have known they didn’t win the 2019 governorship election.

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Okorocha, now representing Imo West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, in a statement issued in Owerri on Wednesday by his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo, also alleged that the PDP stalwarts in the state were still angry with him for making sure that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s voting strength in the South-East in the 2019 general elections was challenged.

Consequently, he said his successor wanted to destroy the APC in the South-East at all cost.

“The Governor Emeka Ihedioha-led PDP government in the state is simply fighting back because of the defeat they suffered in 2011 and 2015 in the hands of Senator Rochas Okorocha.

“They are also playing the politics of how to remain in power in the state have known that they didn’t win the 2019 governorship election because before now, nobody had become the governor of the state with bloated figures from only three out of the 27 local government areas in the state.

“For them too, having known that Imo remains the strongest hold of APC in the South-East, they now feel that once APC is destroyed in Imo, the party has been destroyed in the South-East. That is another major reason for the current hostility against Okorocha, his amazing achievements and APC members in Imo,” Okorocha said.

With the N42.5bn Okorocha said his administration left in the state account, he alleged that Ihedioha had not fixed any bad road since he became governor.