{"id":9773,"date":"2018-06-13T15:49:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9773"},"modified":"2018-06-13T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:49:28","slug":"how-rochas-okorocha-agents-lied-faked-documents-against-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9773","title":{"rendered":"How Rochas Okorocha, agents lied, faked documents against APC"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi,\u00a0<\/strong>National Publicity Secretary,\u00a0<\/em>All Progressives Congress (APC)
\nIn recent weeks, the Imo State Governor, H.E. Rochas Okorocha, has made libellous attacks on our Party and its leaders a daily occurrence. Hardly a day passes by without Governor Okorocha verbally assaulting our National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other Party leaders over the recently concluded Congresses in Imo State.
\nIn an advertorial published in the Daily Trust<\/em> Newspaper of June 11, 2018<\/a> and titled in part: \u201cLet The Truth Speak For Itself\u201d<\/em> which was signed by a known associate of Governor Okorocha, one Hon. Ireagwu Obioma, who styles himself as \u2018Acting Secretary, Imo APC\u2019, a number of false claims were made against the Party.
\nThe import of the allegations was that the Party was aware of a court order preventing it from conducting the Imo State Congress following receipt of a copy of the so-called court injunction which directed it to maintain status quo.
\nBut nothing can be further from the truth. Even the published documents in the advertorial do not support this position and in fact gave a lie to the governor\u2019s version of events, that the Party was duly served and prevented from going ahead with the Congress in Imo state.
\nA cursory look at the published court papers revealed that the Party was served the so-called court rulings on May 18, 2018<\/a>, while the Ward and Local Government Congresses which produced the recently inaugurated Party executives from the state was held on May 5th and 14th, 2018 respectively, four days<\/a> before the court ruling was issued.
\nIn fact, we strongly believe that the court ruling being paraded as injunction does not serve Governor Okorocha\u2019s interest. At the time of the ruling a new set of Party executives had been validly elected, consequently the court ruling directing that the status quo is maintained, actually means that no one should interfere with the newly elected APC party executives in the state.
\nAlso in the advertorial, a so-called internal Party memo was published, which purportedly showed that we were aware of the pendency of the legal issues involving the congresses in Imo and Abia States. The published \u2018memo\u2019 by the agents of the Imo State Governor is fake. No such memo was generated by our Party. A casual look will reveal the inconsistency of the published document.
\nThe memo, according to the published advertorial, was generated by the Chief of Staff to the APC National Chairman, Edwin Ikhinmwin but was signed by the Party\u2019s Legal Adviser, Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN). It is impossible for such an incoherent document to have emerged from our Party, or any sane organisation – for one person to generate a memo and another person to sign it!
\nIndeed Banire, our Party\u2019s Legal Adviser and the Chief of Staff, have denounced the document as fake, stating clearly that they neither originated nor signed such memo. This is therefore, a clear case of forgery borne out of desperation. We are currently seeking legal advice on how to proceed with the matter to ensure that those culpable are identified and duly punished.
\nThe sensible thing to do when you find yourself in a ditch is to stop digging. We therefore, once again urge Governor Okorocha to tread the path of caution and reconciliation and to work with the duly elected Party executives in the state for the good of the Party. We shall however not tolerate his constant assault on the Party, either directly or through proxies.<\/div>\n
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By Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi,\u00a0National Publicity Secretary,\u00a0All Progressives Congress (APC) In recent weeks, the Imo State Governor, H.E. Rochas Okorocha, has made libellous attacks on our Party and its leaders a daily occurrence. Hardly a day passes by without Governor Okorocha verbally assaulting our National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other Party leaders over the recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}