Uzodinma: We want everybody in South-East to join APC

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, on Friday, said all politicians in the South-East who are not members of the All Progressives Congress are targets of the ruling party.

He said the idea is to have all politicians in the zone in the APC and the plan is not restricted to state governors alone.

Uzodinma disclosed this in an interview with State House correspondents after a meeting he had with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He was reacting to the recent defection of his Ebonyi State counterpart, Dave Umahi, from the Peoples Democratic Party to the APC.

He said, “Everybody that is not in the APC now in the South East is a target.

“It is not only governors. It includes those who are not governors, the entire political class.

“The whole idea is making the ideology of the party known to the people, allaying their fears, and encouraging them to come.”

Uzodinma argued that any politician who believes in Nigeria has a pan-Nigeria attitude must belong to a national party.

“There is no gainsaying that if you are not with the national party, and you choose to be in opposition, of course, you will continue to fast until God answers your prayers.

“But we that are in the ruling party, of course, what it will take us to solve certain problems may be different from what it will take somebody who is not very close to the source of authority to solve his own problems,” he added. Punch