Opposition gubernatorial candidates from Owerri Zone Senatorial District have urged Governor Hope Uzodimma to jettison his reelection bid, saying he has no moral ground to contest.
This was part of the resolutions the governorship candidates reached at the 5th anniversary of the Egbu Declaration held on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
The governorship candidates, including Senator Samuel Anyanwu, aka SamDaddy, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Kemdi Opara of the Young Progressives Congress, YPP; Tony Ejiogu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA; and Kachi Nwoga of the Action Democratic Party, ADC, argued that it was against the tenets of democracy for Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to be seeking reelection when his Orlu Senatorial District had ruled the state for 20 years out of the 24 years since democracy returned to the country in 1999.
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“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,” the communique at the end of the meeting read in part.
“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.”
Among those who endorsed the communique were the chaiman and secretary of the anniversary, Julius Onyenucheya and Martin Opara, respectively; Chief Mike Ahamba, SAN; and a former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Nnaemeka Maduagwu.