PDP - Imo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has
excluded itself from the planned one million-man anti-government protest,
scheduled for today in Owerri.
According to source – Vanguard
PDP made public in a release by the state Publicity
Secretary, Mazi Damian Oparah, and made available to newsmen in Owerri.
“The entire Imo PDP, led by Chief
Charles Ezekwem, is not in any way part of the protest and indeed, anything
that will cause the breakdown of law and order in the state,” Oparah
said.
According to the PDP image maker,
“the party is not interested in anything that will increase the suffering and
trauma of the citizenry, which is caused by the bad administration of the
present All Progressives Congress, APC, government in the state.”
While calling on the security agencies to “do the needful by
securing the lives and property of Imo people,” the party equally pleaded that
no person or group of persons should be allowed to cause chaos in the state. Oparah
wondered why government should accuse the PDP of planning the protest,
stressing that an APC chieftain and former Speaker of Imo State House of
Assembly, Chief Kelechi Nwagwu, had consistently maintained that he was behind
the protest. “While the former has consistently owned up that he was
responsible for organising the protest, Comrade Jeff Nwoha, an appointee of the
government, is organising the counter rally. We, therefore, wonder why the
governor, through his Chief Press Secretary, is looking the order way,” Oparah
said.
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