As Uzodimma rightly pointed out, it was, indeed a “battle” that exhausted the people emotionally, psychologically and even financially. With a war chest.
Let me lift, word for word, a passage from the maiden broadcast of the Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, to the people on Monday, January 20: “
Even after those top stakeholders formed a “coalition” to fight the governor, the latter was both undaunted and undeterred. Initially, Uzodimma, then a sitting senator, was not part of the coalition. The grand outcome of the congresses was the emergence of two factions, as an unrelenting Okorocha fought ahead. But both to the surprise and chagrin of Imolites generally, the national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, one odd afternoon made a pronouncement recognizing the Okorocha-led faction as the authentic leadership of the party in the state.Promptly, the main arrowhead of the coalition, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, left the party and joined the All Progressives Grand Alliance .
At Uzodimma’s swearing-in at the Heroes Square on January 15, there was murmuring in the crowd at the sighting of Okorocha, a development that was read in some quarters to mean a signal that the people expect him to distance himself from Rochas Okorocha. Till date, many keen watchers of the Imo political terrain believe that had a run-off between Ihedioha and Nwosu been called immediately after the general elections, Nwosu would have emerged.
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