Politics
Imo ADC Chairman Okoroma, Holds Meeting With LGA Party Leaders Calls for peace
The newly inaugurated Imo State Chairman of the African Democratic Congress ,ADC, Prof.James Okoroma has called on all the party Chairmen in the 27 LGAs of the State to embrace peace and offer hands of followership as the party is still undergoing its coalition process to form a strong political force.
The chairman made the appeal while addressing the LGA Chairmen at the party secretariat in Owerri the State capital.
He said that the ADC of yesterday is no longer the ADC of today, pointing out that the party has undergone sudden transformation because of the coalition agreement it entered with other political parties.
Okoroma, appealed to the LGA party heads to embrace any change of leadership that may occur within the party across the 27 LGAs in the process of accommodating other political blocks that are part and parcel of the the coalition formation.
He noted that the coalition has brought many development within the party’s structure both in the State and at the national level as it tries to manage diverse interest of different groups.
The party chairman, however assured them that their efforts in building the party will be rewarded in different ways, pointing out that the central focus of the party is to obtain power first, then every other things will follow up in solidifying its ground.
Okoroma added that changing of party leadership does not mean removing the entire party heads in the various LGAs, maintaining that those who have solidified their structures at the grassroots level will be retrained while others will be given relevant positions within their LGAs.
” Bringing together diverse interest of divergent people is not an easy task.
So I’m trying to bring everyone together because
It’s important to put heads together to achieve our objectives.
“I advise you to reach out to your people and ensure you establish the party’s presence at the grassroots.
I’m going around meeting stakeholders telling them about ADC so that our presence will be fully registered in the State” he said.
The ADC Chairman also informed that the party is going to
establish disciplinary committee and other relevant committees to ensure orderliness within its folds.
He further maintained that nobody will be segregated “even if you are removed as chairman, another position can be given to you” he added.
In their separate remarks while responding to the chairman’s speech, some of the LGA chairmen urged the State chairman to use his position to ensure nobody among them will be intimidated out from office.
The LGA party heads also assured the chairman that they will do their best in keeping the party together for the greater challenge ahead.
Martin Amaewhule, Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Tori News reports Amaewhule defected along with 15 other members of the House on Friday.
Amaewhule said the defection is due to clear division in the PDP.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in the state earlier this year in March, suspending the Governor, Sim Fubara and his Deputy alongside members of the State Assembly.
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has intensified his call for the establishment of state police to contain the wave of insecurity in Nigeria.
George made this call on Friday when he appeared during an interview on Arise Television monitored by Ekwutosblog.
He was reacting to the worsening insecurity situation in the country where innocent Nigerians, including women and schoolchildren are kidnapped and others killed in the process.
“First of all, what is wrong with establishing state police? We have seen nobody is going to cancel the Federal Police, but policing is local.
“When you now turn the boys who live in the same area and legalize their existence to put smiles on the faces of the people, it will be better to manage because they will understand the language of the locals. They know the do’s and don’ts in their own area. So why are we wasting time?
“I am happy I read something last week after the Arewa Consultative meeting in the North. They met and took a decision that they have agreed to a state police.
“Then the Southwest met with their governors, and the governors’ statement made after that conference is that they also accept having state police.
“What are we wasting time for? Because the way it is, you don’t even know who is telling the truth or who is telling the lie,” he said.
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Friday declared that he’s still a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Wike’s comment followed his expulsion from the party by the faction led by National Chairman, Kabiru Turaki.
Turaki had formally dispatched expulsion certificates to 11 prominent party chieftains, including Wike, former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Umaru Bature, Kamarudeen Ajibade, SAN, Abdurahman Muhammad Senator Mao Ohuabunwa.
He said their expulsion was aimed at sanitising the party ahead of the 2027 elections.
Reacting to the development on Friday, Wike dismissed the claim while assuring that he would continue to work with other party members in making PDP a relevant opposition party.
The minister spoke while addressing journalists after inspecting the Interchange bridge and road linking Gwarinpa with Jahi and direct to Katampe, Gishiri and Maitama.
He said, “Those that are factionalized are bound to leave the party, I’m still in PDP and you can see that not everybody has left.
“We still have good numbers and we will continue to work together and that’s what I have said to the party. Put your house in order because at the end of the day, if you don’t put your house in order, it’s the party that is losing.
“So those who are worried, we can work together to see how the party can remain a relevant opposition.”
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