Days after Action Alliance, a party floated by Imo state Governor, Rochas Okorocha declared support for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Atiku, the Imo chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress has suspended the governor over what it described as anti party activities.
The suspension dosage was unleashed, barely one month to the Presidential election.
“A letter by the Imo State chapter of the APC signed by the chairman conveying the suspension to the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole regretted that Okorocha who is supposedly the party’s candidate for Imo West senatorial district has vowed to undermine the APC and its electoral interest,” caretaker committee chairman of the Imo APC faction, Marcellinus Nlemigbo said while speaking to journalists in Owerri on Thursday.
“To save the party from the machinations of Governor Rochas Okorocha, our state Caretaker Committee highly recommends the expulsion of the governor from the APC so that he can fully move to his party, the Action Alliance,” he added.
Nlemigbo stated that the party recently set up a disciplinary committee which was led by Matthew Omegara to investigate allegations of anti-party activities against Okorocha by one of its member Ikechukwu Unegbu .
Following the party’s investigations the governor was found guilty for sponsoring another political party, Action Alliance (AA), and its governorship candidate in the state, Uche Nwosu. Okorocha had been at loggerheads with the APC leadership after his anointed successor and son-in-law Uche Nwosu lost the APC governorship ticket.
