Ararume, Izunaso, others demand state of emergency in Imo

 

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso, former gubernatorial aspirant, Ifeanyi Araraume, Senator Hope Uzodima, have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Imo state.
The trio, who led other stakeholders to insist on the state of emergency, accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of repeatedly fuelling the Independent People of Biafra agitations as well as encourage hate speech in South-east.
In a petition to the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday in Abuja, they also asked the party to immediately get rid of the state governor, if the APC must be repositioned to take over the eastern region in 2019.
“As our Party Chairman, kindly bring to the notice of our dear President that should the governor in his megalomania…procure further violence in his child like tantrums, a state of emergency in Imo State would be a natural consequence.
“No other state did the President visit five times to appeal to its people and yet we wobbled. Our party must rid itself of this incorrigible worm, he is indeed a
cankerworm.
“This attempt to drag the state into further violence in the face of a non- existent state assembly only points to the complete breakdown of an already non-existent governance for which the state of emergency envisaged in the Section 305 of our Constitution is to be declared”, the petition which was also signed by Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Hon. Mike Ohia and Hon. Austin Chukwukere, said.
The party leaders lauded the National Working Committee of the party “for standing firm to the rules and guidelines of our party and upholding our duly conducted and video recorded congresses across our State,
The letter was copied the President Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chairman and Deputy Chairman (South) of the Party, National Assembly, all State Governors, the National Security Adviser, the Inspector General of Police, DG, Department of State Services as well as members of the National Working Committee NWC of the party for necessary action.

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