Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, has registered a footprint in the Southeast since he assumed office in 2020.
Aside from withering the political storms against his second term election, the first in the Southeast region by any governor...
Uzodimma is also the chairman of Progressives Governors Forum of Nigeria, an umbrella body that binds APC governors in the 20 states. Since he assumed power in Imo State in 2020, following the pronouncement of the Supreme Court that declared him winner of the 2019 general elections, Uzodimma has continued to make strong imprints in the affairs of the southeast region as the leader of the party.
At first was the June 2021 controversial governorship primary of the party that threw up former senator, Andy Uba, against 13 other aspirants that made many abandon APC for alternative platforms, which eventually led to abysmal performance of the party in the governorship election. Uba, who secured 230,201 votes in the party primary, out of 348,490 votes cast in the supplementary elections, polled only 43,285 votes.
Apparently to make up for the shame of the defeat late last year, Agballah summoned a stakeholders meeting where he announced suspension and expulsion of some foundation members of the party including immediate past Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, immediate past Director General, Voice of Nigeria , Osita Okechukwu, former state chairman of the party, Ben Nwoye, former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, former Enugu governor, Sullivan Chime, former Speaker, Enugu House of Assembly,...
Some stakeholders insist that having a hand in whatever happens in the party in the southeast region is part of the governor’s efforts to deepen and rebuild the party to win elections in the zone. This is however, the anger that is fueling discontent in the party in the region as various members who feel sidetracked are nursing for an opportunity to pay back to the governor in his own coin.
He also seized the opportunity to enumerate serial misfortunes of the governor in the southeast to include the 2021 governorship primary of the APC in Anambra State; the congressional elections of the party in the southeast, which he allegedly pocketed to the 2023 general elections in the region. The group in a statement by its Secretary, Dr Steve Igweze, stated that Uzodimma’s decision to usurp the functions of the returning officer in the botched Edo State APC governorship primary was the height of political rascality and executive impunity.
He insisted that Uzodimma committed no crime in the discharge of his duties as chairman of Edo State APC primary committee, stressing that the party is currently being run by real politicians in the Southeast “and not those who are APC in the day and something else at night.” “In Enugu State, for instance, Uzodimma has been our pillar of support, ensuring that we have functional and befitting state and zonal offices among numerous financial support to help our consolidation,” he said.
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