Ihim made the call at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday, while speaking with newsmen after a closed-door meeting with National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
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Eke made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in an interview in Owerri on Monday.
Okorocha said the decision has saved what would have resulted in a blood shed as thugs have continued to attack both party members and the office over the outcome of the last Saturday’s ward congress.
The Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, met with the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and other members of the party’s National Working Committee where the decision was reached
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Okorocha was not in the meeting although he was at the VP wing of the Presidential Villa at the time
Okorocha, who was reported to have lost out in the power equation in the state based on the outcome of the congress, which was wracked by violence, told the President that what happened in Imo State on Saturday was funny politics that should be stopped
The party in the state heard about the rumour of his entry into the party like any other Nigerian, Okorocha said in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, in Owerri on Tuesday.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State made the position of the governors known to State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with the President at the Presidential villa, Abuja
He made this announcement through his twitter handle: @honuchenwosu in a tweet.
Okorocha disclosed this at an interactive session with journalists at the Government House, Owerri.
Araraume, one of the front-line governorship aspirants in Imo, on the platform of All Progressives Congress APC, was reacting to a resent claim by Okorocha that he would retire him from politics next year.
Buhari, while making his decision public in Abuja, urged Nigerians to score him based on his performance
Governor Abdul-aziz Yari of Zamfara stated this when he briefed State House correspondents alongside Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo on the outcome of the meeting between the APC governors and the president in Abuja, on Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the meeting which has been fixed for 2.p.m today, may also deliberate on some national and party issues including the President’s disapproval of tenure elongation for APC national executives.
It would be recalled that the governors had on February 22 met behind closed doors, after which the President pledged to address the nation on whether he will seek re-election in 2019
In a statement by Uche Onwuchekwa, his Media aide, Madumere said no amount of opposition from the governor would make him lose sight of his ambition
Among those that left the meeting midway in anger were the National Organising Secretary of the party, Senator Osita Izunaso; former governorship candidate in Imo State, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume; and Senator Benjamin Uwajiumogu
He said they must also stop encouraging their followers to do so
Okorocha spoke with newsmen at the Sam Mbakwe International Airport in Owerri, shortly on arrival from an overseas trip
he Chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, stated this when he fielded questions from newsmen after a closed door meeting with President Buhari at his private resident in Daura on Friday