Imo Guber: Opposition Using My Physical Condition To Campaign Against Me – Achonu

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Imo State, Senator Athan Achonu, has accused opposition members in the state of campaigning against him using his physical attributes.

Speaking in an interview on Arise Television on Wednesday, Achonu said ahead of the forthcoming governorship election, his opponents are demarketing him because he is physically challenged.

Recall that there has recently been a crisis in Imo after the National Working Committee of the party led by Julius Abure insisted that Achonu is the party’s genuine governorship candidate recognised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

However, another faction led by Lamidi Apapa rejected Achonu as the party’s candidate, saying that he didn’t emerge from the recognized primary election.

But in his reaction to the development, Achonu said there is no issue with his candidacy, stressing that those causing crisis in the party are sponsored.

The LP flagbearer stated that the beneficiary of all these crises and factions in the party will be the APC government in power led by Senator Hope Uzodimma.

He said: “Let me give you a perfect example of this scam. When they went to the Appeal Court, it declined, so we proceeded to the Supreme Court to challenge that judgement. You know what happened?

“The Appeal Court said why were we bothering? That the judgement was even in our favour. That we shouldn’t bother because the case had been dismissed.

“So what did we do? We went and withdrew the case from the Supreme Court. Immediately we withdrew the case, they went to town that Supreme Court had ruled so and so.

“The beneficiary of all these crises and factions in the Labour Party will be the APC government in power.

“Because people are already saying if we vote for the one-arm General (that’s what they call me), they will take away the thing from him in the Supreme Court, so we don’t want to waste our votes.

“So that’s just the situation they want to create. They are stimulating the belief that just because I have one arm, I shouldn’t be voted for.”