REVEALED: Why Okorocha Dumped APGA

REVEALED: Why Okorocha Dumped APGA

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has revealed his reason for leaving the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The governor states that he refuses to belong to a sectional party. According to reports, Okorocha revealed that he had to leave APGA because it exists only in the South-East and is in control of only Anambra State. He noted that it would be politically wrong for him to remain in such party. The governor spoke in Abuja during an interaction with some APC members.

APGA leadership, responded by calling Okorocha’s claim as baseless and vowed that he will pay dearly for his decision. National Chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, and National Secretary, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi, said the governor’s days in office are numbered.

Umeh asked why Okorocha only realised that APGA is a sectional party that does not befit his political status after the he used the platform to win the Imo governorship in 2011. “Okorocha begged to be given APGA ticket in 2011, he won the election on the platform, he never questioned the spread of the party that time. This tells you about the political character of the man. He will regret the step he has taken either now or in 2015”, Umeh said.

Addressing party faithful, most of whom said they were chairmen of APGA in 22 states in the North, Okorocha said that he cannot realise his ambition to join forces with progressives in other parts of Nigeria to salvage the country from its current state if he had remained in APGA.

Source: Legit.ng

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