News Item: IMO APGA BLAST PDP COUNCIL CHAIRMEN

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has lashed at the 27 Elected Council Chairmen in the State, describing them as victims of retributive justice. In a statement made available to www.innocentonyeukwu.com in Owerri and signed by Hon John Ucheoma(APGA Chairmanship candidate,Owerri Municipal) and Hon. Noel Kaji,(APGA Chairmanship candidate for Ngor Okpala) on behalf of APGA Chairmanship and Councillorship candidates in Imo State, said it is funny and strange that the PDP Council Chairmen can lay claim to the Chairmanship seats of the LGAs when they were not democratically elected. It stated that the August 7th, 2010, Local Government election was a political abracadabra by the PDP in collaboration with the Emma Nwoye led ISIEC with the stamp of approval of former Governor Ikedi Ohakim. They recounted that there was a Court Order that restrained the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC) from going ahead with the election, noting that a faction of the PDP then, the Alliance For Good Governance went to Court, sought and obtained another Court Order which the party and ISIEC totally ignored. The Chairmanship candidates contended that what has befallen the illegal Local Government Chairmen is the law of retributive justice, wondering why the PDP is seeking for legal protection when it has no regards for the rule of law. ‘Governor Okorocha should have invoked the Justice Gordy Anunihu Court Order instituted by Alliance for Good Governance and candidates of different political parties’ they declared. They stated that the PDP Council Chairmen should be grateful to Governor Rochas Okorocha, his deputy, Sir Jude Agbaso and other APGA leaders for sending to jail the Council Chairmen for disobeying a Court Order. They challenged the PDP to another of political contest to ascertain which of the political parties in the State has the acceptability of the people. Part of the Statement reads ‘ we, the APGA Chairmanship candidates in the 2010 Local Government election, hereby challenge the purported PDP candidates in that election to another election to prove to everyone that the PDP and their candidates are unpopular and only believe in the art of rigging to win elections. The PDP in Imo State and their so called Godfathers should know that the present Government in the State is ordained by God. Any person or group of persons who attempts to truncate the peoples government will not succeed and will face the wrath of God’ They also maintained that the law fixing the tenure of LG Chairmen in the State was limited to two years and was assented by former Governor Ohakim on June 3, 2010.