PDP MUST NOT DIE - OKOROCHA

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has stated that the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP must not die. According to the governor, in a democracy, opposition was very important. He wished that the PDP stayed as a party to enable it play the noble role of opposition to the APC – led government.

The governor said the government and the citizenry would benefit more if the PDP remained alive to play the role of an opposition party. Okorocha regretted the various factions scrambling for the soul of the PDP in the state at the moment and urged the leaders to take all the necessary actions to restore peace in the party to prevent it from total extinction.

He added that what the PDP in the state needed now was unity among the leaders and not war among themselves.

He said,

One of the groups is led by one Hon. Ray Emeagha and one other group is led by Barr. C.O.C. Akaolisa, the former legal adviser to the State Chapter of the PDP.
The truth is that the most important thing the PDP leaders in the state need to do now is to prevent the party from hitting the rock by peacefully dealing with the multi-faceted factions struggling over who takes the franchise of the party in the state,

 a statement by Okorocha’s chief press secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo said.

Okorocha advised some leaders of the party who had for politically related reasons formed certain motley groups that had been attacking his government to invest such energy in resuscitating the PDP in the state.