Imo State government has reacted to a recent comment by the former Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, against Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Orji had stated that the PDP would win landslide in Imo State and that people like him would be in the front burner of that campaign.

He also said that Governor Okorocha made mistake by joining APC and described APC as a “wrong party.”

A statement signed by the senior special assistant to the governor on media, Sam Onwuemeodo, said: “First and foremost, we take the liberty to state with every sense of seriousness that the former Abia State governor did not have any or correct information on the political situation in Imo State at the moment. He also didn’t talk like a known democrat.

“In all, his comments were provoking because he had no reason to predict political misfortune for the Imo governor.”

He said that for a two-term former governor of a state and a vibrant political player like Kalu to describe a legally registered political party like APC with prominent Nigerians of all shades as members, as a wrong party, calls for deep concern, stressing that with the level of his political exposure, the former Abia governor would have known that no duly registered political party is a wrong party.

On the former governor’s threat that the PDP would win landslide in Imo State in 2015 and that people like him would lead the campaign, the Media aide said: “We would wish them good luck but the fact remains that those with the correct information on the political scenario in the state at the moment would be nodding in doubt, because they know that there is no man-made formula that would make the PDP win the 2015 election in Imo State, and the members of the party in the state are aware of this obvious fact”.

The aide noted that his principal had taken delivery of the electorate in the state through his monumental projects including the free education at all levels, infrastructure development and so on, “and we are talking about projects that are on ground and can be verified.

“So when the time comes, Governor Okorocha would show Imo people what he has achieved for them in four years, and the PDP in the state will also be asked to do the same for the 12 years they held sway in the state. That is where men like the former Abia governor would meet the brick wall, because victory in an election must be occasioned by something. It does not happen in vacuum.”

He advised the former Abia governor to go back to those working with him over their political project in Imo State and ask them to be honest to him by telling him whether the PDP has any good story for Imo people arising from the 12 years the party governed the state, adding that if they tell him the truth, he would know that the victory in the governorship election in the state in 2015 is in the custody of Imo people and they would hand it over to the man who has proved to them that leadership is all about service to God and humanity, and not all about pleasure.