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IMO State Governor Rochas Okorocha has hailed the police for arresting and parading four suspects with the missing sensitive materials for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ward Congresses.
His Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, in a statement made available to reporters, said: “With the arrest and parading of some of those who got shares of the stolen sensitive materials meant for the conduct of the Ward Congresses of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo on Saturday, May 5 and their subsequent confessions, Governor Rochas Okorocha and APC members have been vindicated.
“Note that Governor Okorocha and the genuine APC members have maintained that the sensitive materials meant for the ward congresses of APC were stolen, while the so-called coalition were deceiving Nigerians by claiming that the congresses held. The debate has now ended in favour of the governor.”
The governor also stated that “some strange characters from the PDP have brought all the bad habits they acquired into the APC and the APC is now behaving like the PDP”.
“With the names already mentioned by those arrested, the governor has also been vindicated in that regard.
“We commend the police for the good job.” We also know that others who took part in the stealing of the congresses materials will be unmasked as time goes on.
“We also regret that while the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, announced that the Local Government Congress in Imo would not hold, the materials for the same exercise had been released to the same characters in the state following the materials recovered from the culprits by the police. This is very unfortunate,” the statement said.