The Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Imo state in the March 9, governorship election, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has accused the Governor of the State, Rochas Okorocha as being the mole in the party and not him.
Uzodinma said it was laughable that Okorocha who had all long worked against the interest of the APC in the state, South East and indeed, Nigeria, would suddenly turn around to accuse others of being moles in the party.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday, he maintained that events prior to the governorship election in the state had been clear in showing that Okorocha was against the interest of the party.
He cited the Zonal Youth and Women Presidential Campaign rally, the APC Presidential rally in Imo State and the adoption of another political platform-Action Alliance, AA, which he mobilized state resources to get some members of the APC in Imo State to defect to, in pursuit of his son-in-law’s governorship ambition as instances of Okorocha’s anti party activities.
He further stated: “The clearest evidence of this sabotage was on live television when the result of Ideato Local Government Area (Okorocha home Local Government Area) was declared as more than 70,000 in favour of AA which created a stalemate and was later illegally reduced to 40,000.The question to ask is what was the basis for reducing the result at a Local Government Area (LGA) Collation Centre?”
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Uzodinma maintained that Okorocha had openly continued to work against the APC saying “this manifested on the governorship election day in the state when having realised that I was cruising to victory, the Governor quickly moblised thugs dressed in military and police uniforms to snatch ballot boxes to manipulate scores in favour of the PDP candidate when it became apparent that his anointed son-in-law will not make it. It was at this point that they falsified the scores for PDP and AA.
“Prior to that, the Governor used the same thugs dressed in military and police uniforms to forcibly chase away APC Polling Agents at the various Polling Units and fielded those of the AA. So who is more of a mole in the APC than Rochas Okorocha?”
On the allegation that he had congratulated the governor-elect, Emeka Ihedioha, Uzodinma said that the video of him and Ihedioha trending on social media ”was at a different occasion, way before the election which is a wedding ceremony”.
Wondering how he could have congratulated the PDP candidate when he had vowed to challenge the outcome of the election in court to reclaim his mandate, he insisted that the video was the handiwork of mischief makers and detractors.
