Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, may have hinted that the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was behind his current travails in the party.
Okorocha is locked in a bitter battle with APC leadership over his successor. Contrary to the choice of party leaders, the governor wants his son in-law, Mr. Uche Nwosu, the ensuing deadlock culminating into the defection of the latter to Alliance Action where he is governorship candidate with Senator Hope Uzodinma emerging as that of APC.
In a veiled reference to Tinubu, Okorochas in an interview he granted newsmen at his Ogboko country home in the Ideato North Local Government Area of the State, alleged that the former Lagos governor masterminded his political travails, adding that the motive was to shut him out of contesting for the presidency in 2023.
He said, “What I am suffering now in APC started two years ago in Lagos. They called my subordinates including my deputy and asked them to team up to fight me.
“Hope Uzodinma joined them lately. They decided to use him because they saw him as a strong person, being a sitting senator.
“The whole thing is about my 2023 presidential ambition. They want to shut out any Igbo man who is strong politically from the 2023 presidential race. But despite the gang up, I must contest for President in 2023.”
