The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has urged political actors in opposition parties to join the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, or remain ‘hungry’,
The Imo State Governor who was declared winner of the 2019 election by the Supreme Court in a rather strange judgement, said this in Abuja, on Friday, in reaction to the defection of the Governor of Imo State, David Umahi, who recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the APC.
Speaking with Journalists after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Uzodinma said that Governor Umahi “quickly understood that joining the ruling party will take his State out of hunger”.
“Once you believe in Nigeria, and you have a pan-Nigeria attitude, of course, you will go for 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, 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.
“There is no way you can compare what your people will get in an opposition party, to what they will get from the ruling party. APC is the ruling party, which has access to the Federal Government. And because our preaching and gospel has always been how to unite Nigeria, how to encourage national unity, national integration, and national cohesion.”