Top APC Leader In Imo State Takes Over Cash Strapped Party Structure

BY GRACE IGWEANYI

Indications are rife that a top leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has taken over the party structure in Imo State.

Our investigations reveal that the cash strapped party is now funded by a top politician (names withheld) who is believed to have a governorship ambition in 2019.

The APC in Imo State has been financially insolvent as a result of the inability of the leader of the party and State Governor, Rochas Okorocha to dole out funds for the upkeep of the party.

 The politician, according to our investigations, has placed all the ward officers of the party on his pay roll with the promise to extend it to the 27 local government executives in the state in the future.

This newspaper was informed last week that the governorship hopeful resolved to do pay the party officers after they took their pleas to him complaining over lack of funds that has stifled activities in the party.

The top politician who decamped from the PDP to the APC just before the 2015 governorship election in Imo State was said to have expressed dismay over the pathetic condition of the party officers and decided to take up the enormous responsibility.

The APC in Imo State has been in financial doldrums despite having serving governor and majority of members in the Imo State House of Assembly.

But a Party ward chairman in Owerri (Imo East Senatorial zone) who spoke on the condition of anonymity said he is not on the payroll of any politician in the APC in Imo State.

" I am not aware of your claims. I am not on the payroll of the anyone or politician" he told our INNONEWS.COM.

Efforts to speak to the Imo State Chairman of the APC, Hilary Eke was unsuccessful as several phone calls to his phone were not answered. 

Another party source said the politician may only placed party officers who are in his senatorial zone on his payroll as part of his contribution to the upkeep of the party.