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Lack of FG Assistance May Cost Imo PDP 2015 Guber—Ohakim

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Immediate-past governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has raised alarm over what he called lack of federal government assistance to the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying nonchalant attitude may cost the party the 2015 governorship seat.
Speaking at the party’s stakeholders’ meeting in Owerri, Ohakim recalled that one of the weapons which led to his defeat in 2011 elections was pernicious propaganda from the opposition then.
He said those propaganda tools used then were bought by all the media houses in the country including the federal government-owned Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria.
The former governor lamented that the same thing was no longer being tolerated even by the private media houses as Governor Rochas Okorocha has bought over all media houses including the social media.
According to him, the party leadership made good effort to package some of the ills of the Okorocha-led administration, “but to our greatest shock, after paying AIT and collecting receipt, we were called back to come and collect our money because the CEO of the outfit said that Rochas is a co-owner of AIT. Okay, what of NTA? We also went to Labaran Maku, but they rejected it. Channels TV did the same thing too.”
While insisting that the party would need the federal governemnt’s assistance to enable it oust Okorocha and his APC from Imo, Ohakim called on the party stakeholders and professionals to come up with ideas on how to unseat Okorocha as according to him, not much had been achieved in the area of propaganda.
Also speaking, the minister of state 1 for Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri expressed surprise at the level of acrimony that had bedeviled the party in recent months over the quest to get the party’s ticket.
She told the stakeholders that the president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan would not want to lose Imo to another party as according to her, the mistake of the past must not repeat itself in 2015 elections.
She urged all aspirants in the party to embrace unity of purpose if they do not want the party to lose elections in the state come 2015

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