{"id":9799,"date":"2018-06-05T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T06:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&p=9799"},"modified":"2018-06-05T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T06:16:08","slug":"rochas-okorocha-is-free-to-leave-apc-von-dg-osita-okechukwu","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/rochas-okorocha-is-free-to-leave-apc-von-dg-osita-okechukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochas Okorocha is free to leave APC\u201d – VON DG, Osita Okechukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe have taken the APC leadership out of Okorocha’s hands because he is playing God’ – VON DG, Osita Okechukwu<\/p>\n

Following the conclusion of ward, local and state congresses of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo, Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) and a chieftain of the party has advised Gov. Rochas Okorocha to leave the party if he so desires.<\/p>\n

Okechukwu spoke on the heels of Gov. Okorocha\u2019s disagreement with the outcome of the congresses held in Imo last month. \u00a0He told newsmen at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Monday that the APC would win the 2019 elections without Okorocha.<\/p>\n

According to him, the actions and inactions of Okorocha have caused the APC more setbacks in the last four years in Imo and the South-East in general. He said recent development that made the governor to lose at the party\u00b4s just concluded congresses was a grand plan to reposition APC toward winning elections in the South-East.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt least there are more than 60 political parties now. Okorocha is free to join any one of his choice, though, we are not forcing him to leave. What we are saying is that we have taken the leadership out of his hands because he is playing God; so, what I am saying is that he is at liberty to leave APC. But let nobody anywhere think that the APC will lose because we have retrieved the party from him. Mr president is going to get more votes, we are going to win more parliamentary seats, more governorship seats without him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He noted that over 90 per cent of the leadership and membership of the APC in the South-East were against Okorocha and his style of governance.<\/p>\n

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