Imo: Governor Uzodimma Is Burdened With Guilt, Desperate For Acceptance – PDP Says

… Demands immediate release of its New media director, others

BY GRACE ANYANWU, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday said that since Governor Hope Uzodimma emerged governor of Imo State through the Supreme Court, his government has been employing every method, including intimidation, in the bid to silence dissenting voices; stressingthat the situation betrays an administration overburdened by guilt and desperation for acceptance.

This is just as the PDP specifically condemned the current clampdown and brutalization of opposition members in Imo state by the Uzodimma-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, which is now seeking to degrade democratic tenets, crush opposition and stifle all dissenting voices in the state.

It therefore demanded for the immediate and unconditional release of its new media director in Imo state, Mr. Ambrose Nwogwugwu, who was reportedly arrested by the Department of States Service (DSS), allegedly on the orders of Governor Hope Uzodimma, for no just cause.

The party said it believes that those burdened with guilt should rather offer restitution instead of resorting to intimidation of innocent people

The PDP vehemently rejects the hounding of its members with state apparatus of power for expressing their constitutionally guaranteed liberty to hold opinion and convene legitimate meetings of our party.

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, also condemned the brutality of one of its leaders in Ngor Okpala, Mr. Obinna Eke, who is now in the hospital, following an alleged attack by APC Interim Management Chairman in Ngor Okpala for convening a legitimate meeting of the party.

The PDP said that this is in addition to a similar brutalization of its coordinator in Nguru Nweke, Aboh Mbaise, Mr. Chidi Ihedioha, who was reportedly locked up by the Police, allegedly on the orders on an APC House of Assembly member, also for convening a legitimate meeting of the party.

According to the PDP; “Nigerians are currently in shock over the level of political intolerance being instituted by the Uzodimma administration for which the once productive and peaceful state is now being turned into a theatre of terror”. 

The PDP therefore urged Governor Uzodimma to pause and ponder on the collective voices, disposition and mood of the people of Imo state as embodied in persons like Ambrose Nwogwugwu, and accept the bitter truth.

The party further said; “Governor Uzodimma should ask himself if he indeed became the governor through the ballot or through a flawed verdict of the Supreme Court as firmly established by Justice Centus Nweze, who also cautioned that the decision of the Supreme Court “will continue to haunt our electoral jurisprudence for a long time to come”.

“Though the PDP abides by the decision of the Supreme Court, it rejects this attempt by the APC administration in the state to stifle opposition in Imo state

“Nigerians now know who to hold responsible should any of our members becomes a victim of sudden disappearance, trumped up criminal charges, unexplained motor accident, assassination or attack by supposed armed robbers”.