UGOCHUKWU EKE, OWERRI
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has set up a Peace and Reconciliation Committee for South-East zone and Imo State respectively with the mandate to ensure that peace is returned in the party within the South-East zone and in Imo in particular.
The South-East APC Peace and Reconciliation Committee is headed by Senator Emmanuel Agboti from Ebonyi State, while the Imo State APC Peace and Reconciliation Committee is headed by Prince Macdonald Akano.
The Committees are expected to ensure that warring factions within the APC in the South-East are brought together while the Imo Committee would also work to achieve the same aim before the forthcoming general elections.
This was disclosed by the Imo State Governor and Chairman Progressive Governors Forum, Owelle Rochas Okorocha in Owerri when he received thousands of APC supporters at the Government House Owerri on Wednesday June 27, 2018
congratulate him for a successful outing at the National Convention of the Party in Abuja.
Okorocha told his audience that there would be a Mega Victory Rally in Owerri on July 3, 2018 by APC members in the South-East and the rally would be tagged, South-East For Buhari.
He disclosed that the mega rally would aimed at re-directing the mindset of Ndi-Igbo in the Current Political dispensation to join the national ideology which the party stands for.
The Imo state governor said, “This very rally will have so many governors in attendance with Secretary to the Government of the Federation as a representative of the President”.
“The idea is to promote the ideals of what President Buhari stands for, and to also ensure that Igbos are not left out again, to rebuild all broken bridges with both the North and Western part of this Country and position Ndi-Igbo better”.
Okorocha said, “I want to equally ensure that the new party leadership will look into the aborted Congresses in the State and I can assure you that there will be fresh Congresses as soon as possible”.
“That will now stabilize our Party and get them ready for elections, I want to thank Imolites who have remained calm in the face of provocations and insults. The Victory is for all of us”.
He used the forum to announce that the Local Government elections will still
go on as scheduled and called on everyone to participate, adding that the exercise will be free and fair.
