Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has declared himself the dominant figure in the All Progressives Congress in the state, insisting that the party\u2019s structure remains under his influence.\n<\/p>\n
Okorocha made the declaration during an interview with Arise News on Thursday while reacting to the political dispute surrounding the APC senatorial ticket for Imo West ahead of the 2027 general elections.\n<\/p>\n
The former governor was responding to claims that he had lost control of the party\u2019s structure in the state, following opposition from forces believed to be aligned with Governor Hope Uzodimma.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cRochas is the APC in Imo State. I was a founding father of this party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Okorocha, who maintained that he played a significant role in establishing the APC, also claimed that the party\u2019s identity and structure in Imo State were tied to his political contributions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe structure of APC in Imo State is Rochas. And I gave the name APC,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
His comments followed a Federal High Court judgment recognising him as the winner of the APC senatorial primary for Imo West ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n
He also dismissed suggestions that the Imo State Government would challenge the judgment, arguing that the dispute was between him and Uzodimma rather than the state government.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does Imo State Government have to do with the election between me and Hope Uzodimma as a person? It\u2019s not Imo State Government contesting for election, it\u2019s Hope Uzodimma,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Asked whether opposition within the APC concerned him, Okorocha dismissed those he described as forces working against him, saying they were people allegedly acting on behalf of the governor.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no forces, these are what I call the PAs of Hope, that he could put together and say, take chairman,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
He also questioned the legitimacy of the party structures being presented as opposition to him, arguing that no congress had been conducted to establish their positions.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHas there been any election? Was there any congress conducted? There was none,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Okorocha further argued that the disagreement was about who represented the APC politically in the state rather than the party\u2019s strength, adding that his relationship with the people would enable him to mobilise support for the party and President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n
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Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has declared himself the dominant figure in the All Progressives Congress in the state, insisting that the party\u2019s structure remains under his influence. Okorocha… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}