Reports filtered in Owerri, Imo
State capital that President Goodluck Jonathan has invited PDP stakeholders
from Imo State. The reason for the meeting was not stated but a source said it
will hold at the presidential villa on Tuesday, January 31st, 2013
Those invited include senators and members of
the House of Representatives of the PDP extraction from the State and other
party stakeholders.
A local tabloid in Owerri claimed
that the meeting will address among other issues the ongoing face off between
members of the Association of Local Governments in Nigeria and the APGA
controlled government (ALGON) who were sacked from office by Governor Rochas
Okorocha on June 11, 2012.
There was no independent
confirmation of the meeting as a top PDP official in Imo State failed to
respond to inquiries by this blog.
Imo State is dominated by the PDP
having majority of its members in the Senate and the House of Representatives
in Abuja.
The State House of Assembly is
also strongly made up of the PDP. Its members would have been in the majority
if not for the defection of the Assembly’s principal officers which decamped to
the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
The party lost the governorship
election to APGA when Rochas Okorocha floored Ikedi Ohakim, the then governor
of the State who was the party's candidate in the governorship elections held in
April 2011. The party also gave
President Jonathan the highest number of votes in the South East during the
presidential elections which cruised the president to office.
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