Some of the APC members are annoyed that Okorocha only recommended his friends and loyalists for federal appointments ignoring some key members especially those who were part of the legacy political parties that formed the APC at the State and national levels.
INNONEWS was told that some aggrieved members of the party in the State have taken their grievances to the national chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun and some top members of the National Working Committee, NWC. One of the aggrieved party members who spoke on condition of anonymity claimed that they have also taken their complains to the presidency where their matter is being given “fair hearing”
He said “As I speak to you, the Presidency is aware of our case. We have made a strong case for ourselves and we are hopeful that list from Imo State will be reviwed
“We cannot form a party and allow decampees from the PDP to come and take what rightfully belongs to us.This is unacceptable. We first complained to the governor on the lopsided appointments but we were simply ignored.
“This was the same scenario in the Commissioners list and names of Special Advisers which was sent to the House of Assembly for screening.
He continued "majority of them are PDP decampees. APC is not PDP. Also, it is really a sad development that the same set of people who held positions in the first tenure of this government are the ones recommended for federal board appointments.
"We allowed the governor to nominate his choice for ministerial appointment from the State because he is the leader of the party in the State . He went ahead and nominated his in- law and former Secretary to the State Government, Prof Anthony Anwuka after appointing another in- law of his, Chief Uche Nwosu as Chief of Staff.
"We felt that other appointments for the federal boards will be extended to other party members but almost all those who held positions in this government in the past are the ones that were recommended for federal jobs. Imagine, a former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly in the last term being recommend for Board appointment
This Newspaper gathered that since the list of those endorsed for federal appointments from Imo State was made known, litany of petitions from disenchanted APC members in the State has flooded the national secretariat of the APC.
A source in the APC national secretariat in Abuja later revealed last night that the level of petitions trailing the nominations from many States in the federation may have forced the presidency to shelve the appointments till sometime in 2016.
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