From Chijioke Agwu, Abakaliki
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP )in Ebonyi State, Tochukwu Okorie, has endorsed the Governoship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) in state, Francis Nwifuru, for the Saturday’s Governorship election.
Okorie who was recently suspended by the National leadership of the party in controversial circumstances, said his endorsement of the APC candidate was for the interest of equity, Justice and fairness.
He emphasised that it was the turn of the People of Ebonyi North Senatorial district where the APC candidate hails from, to produce the next Governor of the state after Governor Umahi.
In a statement in Abakaliki on Friday, Okorie further claimed that the his party, the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), does not have a candidate for the tomorrow’s Governorship election in the state.
He also noted that the supposed PDP candidate, Ifeanyi Odii, is hampered by multiple cases pending in various courts across the country.
He denied responsibility for the myriad of court cases which have bedevilled the party.
“It is on record however that it was Mr. Ifeanyi Odii who, after claiming victory in a cancelled primary election, ran to court the following morning to challenge his own victory”
“That was the beginning of all pre-election matters before the courts to which I was never and I am still not a party
“The voting public deserves to know that the person whom they used to convene a kangaroo State Congress that purportedly hosted the governorship primary which produced Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii was and remains an imposter totally unknown to the party”
“This is the subject of the matter now pending before the Supreme Court after the Honourable Justice Nyako held that an imposter could not have convened a valid State Congress”
“And since you cannot build something on nothing and expect it to stand, the primary that purportedly held at that Congress and which produced Odii is invalid and of no effect whatsoever”
“Whether now or later, that question must be answered. Then the scam and the scammers will be exposed for whom they truly are’
“For the avoidance of doubt, it bears reiterating that the Peoples Democratic Party has no valid gubernatorial candidate in Ebonyi State. Anyone genuinely hoping to hop on that sunk ship will only blame himself or herself very soon,” he said.