National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has explained why the party is seeking to take over the Anambra State government house.
Speaking during a parley with former aspirants and inauguration of a 48-member campaign council for the APC candidate for the November 18, 2017 election, Oyegun said the party needed to win the governorship seat to end the cry of marginalisation by the South-East.
He said, “We must change the narrative in the South-East and we must start with Anambra because the APC represents the most viable route for any South-East person to the presidency of this country.”
Odigie-Oyegun also used the occasion to welcome the former Deputy National Chairman to the Modu Sheriff-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, into the APC.
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The party chairman, who described Anambra State as the “gateway to the South-East,” reiterated the party’s desire to win the election.
Odigie-Oyegun said, “It is important that we do everything we can, fair and square, to bring Anambra State into the fold of the progressives for a lot of reasons.
"Until we manage to bring a few states into the mainstream of progressives’ politics, we may not see the end of this continued cry of marginalisation.
“It is important that we work and work very hard to win Anambra being a critical state in the South-East. It is not going to be a small political struggle. We must work hard with unity of purpose to break through to the South-East in a major way to win Anambra.
“It is very important, essential and vital that we manage to hammer together not just a patch work of peace or make-believe kind of camaraderie but a very serious unity of purpose between all those who aspired to that office to act as a serious guarantee that we are indeed also serious in winning the Anambra governorship seat.”
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