Supporters and kinsmen of Chief Emeka Ihedioha, under the umbrella of Owerri Youth Council, have made it clear that the people of Owerri Zone can no longer support his governorship ambition.
The group, which claimed to have worked for the former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives guber candidacy over eight years, asked him to take a break and drop his governorship ambition.
Leader of the group, Hon Ekperechi Nnamdi Jacob, with hundreds of youths and women, addressed a rally along the Egbu road, Owerri on Saturday, insisting that Owerri zone is against the former Deputy Speaker of becoming the next Governor of Imo state.
He stressed that Ihedioha can no longer continue to hold onto the party's Guber ticket by displacing other governorship hopeful from the zone, expressing worry that PDP may be defeated with such idea.
Ekperechi, while addressing placard-carrying youths, also said that the leaders from Owerri Zone should summon Ihedioha and ask him to drop his ambition to allow other aspirants in the remaining blocs of the Zone to represent the party.
On the other hand, a release signed by the Owerri Leaders of Conscience noted that there would be dire consequences for the zone's failure to allow other political blocs in the zone to produce the next Governor.
He said, “Imo state is confronted by a cocktail of destabilising forces that threaten her continued existence as a united entity and we must find a way to equitably give every blocs in the zone a sense of belonging.”
"We must give all parts of Owerri zone a chance to contest the party's uber ticket, or we might slide dangerously into the narratives of enemies of the state who will have a ready recruitment pool from among disgruntled groups. The party's Governorship ticket cannot afford to go for a man who had held sway to the party's ticket for two consecutive periods considering equity and fairness.”
"We, for our part, have promoted the candidature of Chief Emeka Ihedioha for years, but we humbly call on the former Deputy Speaker to do us a good turn in return for the many good turns we have done for him"
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