Ahead of 2023 elections for the National Assembly, former Imo State governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, have purchased the nomination and expression of interest forms of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Okorocha who is a presidential aspirant under the ruling APC, has been involved in fierce altercations with Governor Hope Uzodimma, over the soul of the All Progressives Congress in the State.
He has lost the party structure in the State to the Governor, as the national leadership of the APC recognizes the Mac Donald Ebere led Imo State Exco, backed by Uzodimma.
However, despite the glimmer of hope for the Okorocha group, as it awaits the verdict of the Supreme Court, which will decide the authentic leadership of the party in Imo State, some of the ex governor’s men, uncertain where the Supreme Court judgement would swing to, have secured PDP nomination and expression of interest forms as a plan B.
The Supreme Court is expected to give it’s verdict on Nwafor’s matter on May 27.
Sources disclose that the uncertainty of the Supreme Court judgement may have forced some of the former governor’s allies to opt for.
“It’s Plan B. A safe route. The judgement of the Supreme Court is unpredictable. It can go either way and if goes our way, fine. If it does not, we activate plan B, which will gives us the opportunity to contest in 2023.
“There is also the possibility of the automatic tickets for all APC members in the National Assembly. These are all options before us” said one of the lawmakers in Okorocha’s camp, who craved anonymity.
Before now, there are reports that Okorocha’s loyalists were reaching out to the PDP leadership for possible defection.
The speculation attracted media attention when Senator Okorocha and former Governor Emeka Ihedioha, wined and danced on December 21, last year at the funeral of the mother of Uche Nwosu, Late Jemimah, at Eziama Obiaire in Nkwerrre LGA.
Okorocha and Ihedioha, adjudged to be fierce political foes, have reportedly resolved their differences or rather united for a common political foe- Governor Hope Uzodimma.
Recall that Okorocha’s ally, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume’s son, Godwin, officially dumped the APC for the PDP recently.
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