Ararume, Uzodinma Trade Words Over PDP Links

Senator Ifeanyi Ararume and Governor Hope Uzodinma were on Monday engaged in a war of words over anti-party activities as their party struggled to defend their victory in the Imo North Senate seat without a genuine candidate.

Ararume started the war after he accused the governor of anti-party activities in aiming to derail his election as senator. Uzodinma had backed Ararume’s APC rival, Frank Ibezim for the party’s ticket.

Uzodinma in a riposte accused Ararume of sinking into political oblivion and wanting to drag down everyone down.

INEC had while declaring the APC winner of the Imo North Senate seat had left vacant the winner of the election pending what it described as the determination of the judicial challenges filed by the pair of Ararume and Ibezim against one another.

Speaking to AIT, Ararume accused Uzodinma of mobilizing APC members to work for the PDP candidate in the election.

According to him the governor was silently working with the PDP as he noted appointments he had made in his government as evidence.

Responding on Monday afternoon, Uzodinma accused Ararume of trying to blame the governor for his failing political prowess.

Responding through his media aide, the governor said:
“The interview which Araraume granted the television station with the intention of burnishing his image has ended up exposing the old habit many people thought the former lawmaker had done away with; which is to assassinate the character of his political opponents with the aim of holding his people hostage.

“Governor Uzodimma’s sin is that he supported Frank Ibezim, who Okigwe people in the All Progressive Congress (APC) overwhelmingly voted for as their candidate both at the primaries and bye-election, but who Araraume has sworn to stop by all means.

“Having lost the battle to compel Okigwe people to remain perpetually subservient to his political quest as well as to stop Ibezim, Araraume decided to extend his grievance to Governor Uzodimma, even when he knows the governor has zero tolerance for enmity and mischief making.

“We are not surprised that Araraume was talking of anti-party activities because Governor Uzodimma worked hard to deliver Ibezim as the preferred candidate of the APC. In the contrary, Araraume’s action from the time the APC chose Ibezim to the time of electioneering, deploying all distractive tendencies from the court, suggested he didn’t want the APC to win the election. He is rather surprised the Party won.

“Rather than waste his precious time fighting and distracting Governor Uzodimma, Araraume should go into introspection to find out why the Okigwe people have decided to pitch their tent with a younger Ibezim, going forward.

“We are less bothered about Araraume and his ilk who are blind about what Governor Uzodimma has done since coming to office.   They are wired not to see anything good done by any other person, not to talk about their political opponents and that can be nauseating. Okigwe people know what Governor Uzodimma has done for them and they are very grateful.

“At the appropriate time, the story of who did what in the interest of Imo people will be told and we are not under any illusion that history will be kind to Governor Uzodimma’s administration.

“It does not matter how much energy the Araraume’s of the world deploy to instigate protests from association of pensioners, doctors, teachers and other bodies.  That is immaterial.

“Truth is that Araraume has been retired from politics by his people of Okigwe and there is no need of blaming Governor Uzodimma for it.”

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