The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has picked the governorship
ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in absentia as he was
still in Lagos for the party’s National Convention which ended on
Thursday evening.
Okorocha’s emergence as the party’s governorship flag bearer in the
state came barely few hours after coming fourth in the just concluded
APC presidential primary elections at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in
Lagos.
During the Owerri event, which took place at the Imo International
Conference Centre, the Commissioner for Lands and Urban Planning, Uche
Nwosu, who was secretly adopted as the APC governorship candidate by the
party’s delegates, announced his withdrawal from the race.
Speaking before the ratification of the Governor’s candidature, the
Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Mr. John Alamba, said that the
party had the power to substitute any candidate that withdraws from the
race.
Nwosu, in his brief speech said that his withdrawal from the race was
based on personal and family reasons, adding that the interest of the
party supersedes his personal ambition.
He enjoined the party members to give same support and solidarity to the new candidate, Governor Okorocha.
Apart from the delegates, also present at the event were all the
state executive of the Imo State All Progressives Congress, except the
Chairman who was still in Lagos, members of the Okorocha’s cabinet and
other state appointees.
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