The party noted that APGA’s romance with the ruling party started before the 2011 general elections, when it publicly declared its support for President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.
The APC Publicity Secretary, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, made this known in a statement after the party’s emergency meeting in Enugu on Saturday.
It described Okorocha’s suspension as, “laughable and a futile last minute means to stop him from leaving the party with his array of supporters.”
The party added that with the death of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, APGA was collapsing into the PDP and it was only wise Okorocha joined the APC.
It said, “Let us not forget that our revered leader, Dim Ojukwu, was the first chairman, Board of Trustees of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, and if he was alive, would have been the first Igbo man to embrace the APC.”
The APC also said it would have been wrong for Okorocha to return to the PDP because the party had failed to reward Ndigbo after 14 years of unalloyed support.
Meanwhile, in his reaction, Okorocha on Sunday described his suspension as “irrelevant.”
Okorocha, in a statement by his Media Assistant, Mr. Chinedu Offor, in Owerri, however, urged the people of the state to remain calm and be law-abiding.
Credit: Punch
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