APC WILL RESIST RIGGING IN 2015- Okorocha

                                                                                             Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would resist rigging in the 2015 general elections insisting that Imo people would be out to protect their votes. Governor Okorocha stated this during the APC congress held in Owerri, which elected Dr. Hillary Eke as the state chairman of the party. “We are here to protect democracy and make it work in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Our slogan in APC is “No rigging”
or “Rig and die” and we are determined to ensure free and fair election at all times. In our party, we don’t discuss how to snatch ballot boxes or papers but how to win legitimately in elections and by the grace of God, in 2015, victory will be ours,” he said. He said since APC came into power in the state, things have changed for better and charged the new state executive to make the party stronger. He assured that the legislative and executive arms of the state government would not interfere in the functions of the party executives. In his response, the Imo State chairman of the APC, Dr. Hillary Eke, thanked the governor and other party delegates for the privilege giving him and his team to serve, promising that they would uphold the party’s manifesto and make its Constitution their guiding principle. Chairman state organizing congress committee Mr. Paul Chukwuma thanked governor Okorocha for the confidence reposed in them while the INEC resident electoral commissioner in the state, Prof Selina Okoh commended the APC leaders and delegates for complying with the rules which made the congress a huge success.