- say, ' you all will retain your positions in my cabinet if elected as governor'
.... appoints Bon Unachukwu to lead campaign
Former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha has pleaded with his appointees who served in his short-lived seven months administration as governor of Imo State to support him realise his 'lifetime ambition' of becoming governor in 2024.
Ihedioha made the plea during a consultative meeting with his aides.
He asked his aides to back his ambition since he won't be running for the party's governorship ticket as a sole candidate.
" The party's governorship primaries is coming. Our party's Ad-hoc delegates election is near. I need the guber ticket of our party.
I can't achieve it by sitting at home. I believe, jointly, we can do it. I can't achieve this alone with the support of the state working committee of our party.
I hope you can back me successfully for the aspiration of my lifetime ambition," he said. "Going by the counsel of the wise that says, "If you want to go fast, do it alone.
If you want to go faster, go together.' You all benefitted during my short-lived administration and eventually when I emerge, you will all retain your same positions in my cabinet, he said. Ihedioha went further to appoint Sir Bon Unachukwu who served as Commissioner for Lands in his cabinet to lead the campaign.
It was learnt that the appointees of Ihedioha through its leader Sir Bon Unachukwu adopted a name ' Ihedioha Reelection Movement (IRM) as a platform in realisation of the governorship ambition of Chief Emeka Ihedioha.
Report has it that the pro- Ihedioha volunteer political group kick started it's LGA tour on Wednesday with Ezinihitte Mbaise LGA at the residence of Chief Magnus Chilaka where they inaugurated it's team both in the polling units, wards and LGA. Same was replicated in Ahiazu Mbaise LGA at the residence of Chief Ugwuibe in Ogbe Ahiara, Chief Mike Ahamba's home in Lorji for Aboh Mbaise and Chief Emma Nwaoegu's residence in Amafor Imerienwe for Ngor Okpala LGA.
It also was gathered that the leader of the political group, Unachukwu disclosed that the Ihedioha Reelection Movement is a self funded body by aides of the former deputy speaker who benefitted from his short-lived seven months administration.
Meanwhile, political pundits in the state have opined Ihedioha's Reelection Movement as 'dead on arrival' some are of the view that he should pursue entirely a different political ambition and not governorship since the elective position has eluded him for two consecutive periods after clinching the party's governorship ticket both in 2014 and 2018, the party will be viewed as his personal business or enterprise, they said.
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