Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been urged to give up his bid for reelection or a second term by governorship contenders from the Owerri Zone Senatorial District.
Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tony Ejiogu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Kemdi Opara of the Young Progressives Congress (YPC), and Kachi Nwoga of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) were the contenders for governor who made the decision.
Politicians argued that Uzodimma’s bid for reelection was undemocratic given that the Orlu Senatorial District had dominated the state for 20 of the state’s 24 years since democracy was restored in 1999.
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Resolutions made during the 5th anniversary of the Egbu Declaration held on Saturday included the contenders for governor’s seat.
Mike Ahamba, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Nnaemeka Maduagwu, a former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, and the chairman and secretary of the anniversary, Julius Onyenucheya and Martin Opara, all supported the statement.
The resolution read in part, “That the generality of the people of Owerri zone further adopt all the positions of the maiden Egbu Declaration against injustice in the Imo sociopolitical landscape, which has seen Owerri zone and her people meted with the worst injustice, and call on our people not to accept the current attempt to confine our zone to political dustbin in the Imo project.
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“We deeply regret that successive political actors have continued to truncate this brotherly accord which recognised the tripod arrangement of Imo State and laid a foundation for power to rotate between the three sister senatorial zones of Orlu, Owerri and Okigwe, in the interest of peace, equity and fairness.”
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