President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met behind closed doors with the governor of Imo state,
Rochas Okorocha, and a former governor of Edo, Adams Oshiomhole, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Okorocha’s meeting with the president, which lasted for about an hour, came a few days after he met the president in his country home, Daura, Katsina state, where he complained about the conduct of the ward congress of the All Progressives Congress in Imo.
It was gathered that the governor might have again lodged a fresh complaint about the way the ward and local government congresses were conducted in Imo state.
Okorocha had, on May 7 in Daura, told reporters after a closed-door meeting with President Buhari that there was no ward congress in Imo state.
“We expect internal democracy and internal democracy is the way to go. These kinds of funny politics that were played must stop, where people want to carry ballot boxes, steal results looks so primitive.
“I intimated Mr. President and we will make sure that such things must stop,” he said. Okorocha and his supporters also boycotted the local government APC congress and insisted that a fresh date for ward congress should be fixed before the local government congress.
The governor, while addressing his loyalists, announced that there would be no local government congress in the state until the crisis of the ward congress was rectified.
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