Imo APC primary: Okorocha calls for arrest of Gulak
arrest of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, primary
election committee in the state, Ahmed Gulak.
A serving Senator, Hope Uzondima and Okorocha's son-in-law, Uche Nwosu
were announced as winners in the primary election in the state.
Against this backdrop, APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole had
described the results as fake.
Prior to the commencement of the election, Gulak had left the state
under controversial circumstances.
Gulak later claimed that Uzondinma won by a landslide, adding that
Okorocha attempted to kidnap him.
Reacting, Okorocha in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam
Onwuemeodo denied the allegations by Gulak.
Okorocha insisted that Gulak should be arrested and punished for
anti-democratic actions.
The statement reads, "We call for the arrest and prosecution of Alhaji
Gulak because there is punishment for his anti-democratic action and
his false claim of kidnap attempt. We must begin to tell men like
Gulak and Senator Hope Uzodinma that it cannot be business as usual.
"Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, former Political Adviser to former President
Goodluck Jonathan and of course, the Chairman of the disbanded Imo
State Governorship Primary Election Committee had told the media on
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 that he fled Owerri by 4am because agents of
Governor Rochas Okorocha had attempted to kidnap him and three other
members of the 12-member Committee. The media had reported what he
told them.
"If you ask me, men like Alhaji Gulak can't build a nation. They not
only constitute serious threat to our promising democracy but also
danger to this great nation. Giving men like him national assignment
like the one he was sent to Imo State to do was just licensing him to
blackmail the nation and put our democracy to ridicule. And there are
certain lies or actions a man who had been the Political Adviser to a
former President of the nation should have overgrown, no matter the
temptation."
"The childish tale of his attempted kidnap was just an afterthought.
He knew he didn't act well his part and was only trying to see how he
could come out from the tight corner he had boxed himself into.
"The man called Alhaji Ahmed Gulak flew into Owerri by 12:45pm on
Monday, October 1, 2018, being the day slated for the guber primary.
And let him publish his flight documents to prove us right or wrong.
They went straight to the Police Headquarters where they deposited all
the materials for the governorship primary.
"After that, the committee members entered into a lengthy meeting with
the candidates, stakeholders, and Heads of Security Agencies in the
State. The meeting lingered till 6:30pm.At the end of the meeting, he
announced that the primary would now hold on Tuesday, October 2, 2018.
"And reporters who were at the Police Headquarters waiting for the
outcome of the meeting went and reported that the Imo primary would
now hold on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. At the end, they went to their
hotel to clean up and eat.
"With all these activities, the courtesy call he was to pay on the
governor with members of his committee could not take place till.
8:45pm that Monday. The courtesy call lasted for about an hour. All
said and done, they left the Government House for their hotel at about
9:55pm.
"They lodged at Rockview Hotel Owerri that shares fence with the
Police Headquarters and the other end of the hotel, the Owerri Prison,
with Soldiers on guard. The hotel is also close to the Government
House Owerri with a team of Mobile Policemen on twenty-four hours
duty.
"So, the question patriotic Nigerians should ask Alhaji Gulak is that,
if you left Government House by 9:55pm and you claimed you fled Owerri
by 4am, and considering the location of Rockview Hotel where they
lodged, then, when and where did the kidnap attempt take place?
"And why should he be kidnapped when the materials for the primary
were kept at Police Headquarters. And of what value would have his
kidnap served anybody since he didn't have any material and the
primary hadn't been conducted.
"It is now left for Nigerians to ask him where he got the results for
which he declared Senator Hope Uzodinma winner. In fact, we do not
subscribe to people talking about PDP when men like Gulak who left the
party just few months ago act funny. It is a personal thing. It has
nothing to do with PDP. Some people live. Some others exist. Those who
just exist do not have souls, and for them, anything goes.
"Ahmed Gulak and Hope Uzodinma had belonged to Alhaji Modu Sheriff's
faction of the PDP. That is the relationship between him and Hope
Uzodinma. We also believe that those who sent him didn't have this
information. But even at that, a former Political Adviser to a Former
President should have lived above board.
"Do not also forget that a day before the Primary, Chief Hope Uzodinma
who the Court had issued warrant of arrest against him for issuing
billions of naira Dud cheque to a business partner had also claimed
kidnap attempt against his person also by agents of the State
Governor. They must be spirits to be escaping from these imaginary
kidnap attempts. In fact, show me your friend, and I tell you who you
are.
"Finally, Hope Uzodinma is not a member APC in Imo State. He claimed
to have joined the party six months ago. Even at that, he does not
have any support in any Local Government in Imo State. We shall be
shocked to see him stand in his Local Government, Oru East, and we see
twenty APC members queuing behind him. He does not believe in the
ballot box.
"He was one of those who in 2015 labeled Okorocha Alhaji in Government
House, Okoro-Hausa and that he was planning with President Muhammadu
Buhari to Islamise Igboland, all because of APC. And few years after,
he has come to cause trouble in the Party and to reap where he didn't
sow. We do not think it is the right thing. No landlord vacates his
house for an unfaithful and unreliable tenant."
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