“While in office as Imo PDP Spokesman, I was confronted with the moral burden of defending a system that I knew was unjust, decayed, and dysfunctional, and, by far, worse than the system which I ought to oppose”
The immediate past Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State, Collins Opurozor, has revealed the moral burden he carried defending his former Party and attacking the Government of Governor Hope Uzodinma. The moral burden, he said, stemmed from the fact that he knew very well that the Government which he was attacking, was better than the system he was defending and speaking for.
Opurozor: …”while in office as Imo PDP Spokesman, I was confronted with the moral burden of defending a system that I knew was unjust, decayed and dysfunctional, and, by far, worse than the system which I ought to oppose. Pretence is not an index of integrity, but sincerity is.”
Opurozor and six members of the State Working Committee of the Imo PDP, including the Deputy Chairman, Secretary, Women Leader, Youth Leader, Treasurer, resigned from their positions in the Party on Sunday, June 18, 2023, and dumped it. They said they left the Party, among other reasons, because of the good work the Governor is doing in tye State.
On Monday, June 19, they announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, with a courtesy call on Governor Uzodinma in his office.
He disclosed the battle he fought with his conscience in a statement he issued in Owerri on Sunday, June 25, 2023, in response to the alleged pressure being put on him to return to the PDP, and the barrage of attacks coming his way and those of his six colleagues from the PDP since they dumped it.
To the alleged pressure on him to return to the PDP, his response was that his departure is “irreversible”. He dismissed such talks of ever returning to the Party as “idle talks.”
He said: “I totally dissociate myself from such idle talks. If there were actually persons championing such an impossible task, the task remains impossible, and their motive remains known to them alone.
“To be clear, my decision to exit the PDP is unyielding and irreversible.”
He, also, revealed that “over ninety percent of PDP members in the State are getting set to sabotage their party at the polls in November. There is no leadership, and Senator Samuel Anyanwu has no capacity to provide one.”
Opurozor mocked Anyanwu, the PDP Governorship Candidate, for still believing he could sustain his Campaign after the departure of seven members of the SWC.
His words: “It is curious that precisely seven days after seven key members of the State Working Committee of Imo PDP resigned, Senator Anyanwu still believes that he can sustain his campaign through raw propaganda.”
Part of his statement reads:
“There is no cohesion. There is no more political party in the real sense. And the situation cannot be remedied, because everyone knows that Senator Anyanwu is the greatest kingpin of party sabotage and brazen anti-party activities.
“I totally dissociate myself from such idle talks. If there were actually persons championing such an impossible task, the task remains impossible and their motive remains known to themselves alone.
“To be clear, my decision to exit the PDP is unyielding and irreversible. It was reached after a dispassionate analysis of the situation in Imo PDP and the state at large. And far from being driven by immediate personal gains, the ultimate goal is to contribute to building the Imo of my dreams through direct participation in the process of governance.
“Moreover, while in office as Imo PDP Spokesman, I was confronted with the moral burden of defending a system that I knew was unjust, decayed, and dysfunctional, and by far worse than the system which I ought to oppose. Pretence is not an index of integrity, but sincerity is. I had to walk away. And I am glad I did.
“Today, over ninety percent of PDP members in Imo State are getting set to sabotage their party at the polls in November. There is no leadership, and Senator Samuel Anyanwu has no capacity to provide one.
“Preliminary report of the party’s reconciliation committee has shown that the internal contradictions within the party are irreconcilable and that the law of sowing and reaping is still effective in the affairs of men.
“It is curious that precisely seven days after seven key members of the State Working Committee of Imo PDP resigned, Senator Anyanwu still believes that he can sustain his campaign through raw propaganda.
”What is even absurd is that the pretender-in-chief has now derailed completely, and now believes that sponsoring his attack dogs against some of us can help him salvage the situation. Just like a man that is jinxed, Senator Anyanwu got the governorship ticket and lost the party.
”He has abandoned the governorship election to pursue a few individuals. He will soon abandon everything to seek to protect his office as National Secretary. And at last, he will lose the ticket and his office before the election.”
Opuruozor is the third PDP Media Person with acidic pens to dump the Party for the APC after they had heaped unsubstantiated damaging libelous attacks on Uzodinma. The others were Ambrose Nwaogwugwu and Ogubundu M.A. The three, literally, went back to their vomit and embraced the Governor.
The Imo State Governorship election is slated for 11th November, 2023.
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