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From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri
The National leader of the opposition, All People’s Party (APP), Hon Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has declared that the party will match the ruling party, THE All Progressives Congress, APC, in Imo state force for force in the forthcoming 2027 elections, saying that the party will not be intimidated.
Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere made the declaration during the inauguration of the newly elected Ideato wards and local government executives of the party in Akokwa, Ideato North, yesterday.
Ugochinyere, member for Ideato Federal Constituency, and the House committee chairman on Petroleum Downstream, stated that he will win his re-election bid whether there is free and fair election or not.
The lawmaker enjoined the new executives to eschew divisive tendencies but to go into action and ensure the grassroots support-base of the party is consolidated.
Ugochinyere noted that APP has become the major opposition party in the state, with two members of the House of Representatives.
“Our party, APP, after APC, is the biggest political party in Imo State today. APC has eight lawmakers, we have two, others have none. That makes APP the number one opposition party in Imo.
“We are going to confront APC aggressively and I want you to be proud of what we have built. We are going to overrun them.
“We hope there will be a free and fair process, but even if the process is not free and fair, we will play in that unfair process. Nobody has a monopoly of anything. It must be played by the rules.
“We will not go into an election where we say if the election is free and fair, we will win. We are saying if the election is free and fair, we will win. If the election is unfair, we will still win. If there is no network, you will transmit the result, when the network comes, it will go. We’ll track any house where results are being written. We’ll protect our votes both at the polling units and the collation centres “.
“We want peace, but if you say you don’t want peace, we won’t yield to being molested. We have a right to be alive,” the legislator said.
