Barring any last minute change in permutation, Okigwe Senatorial Zone seems most favoured to produce the gubernatorial flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State, come 2015 election.
The visiting Harmonization Committee, led by Col Almadu Ali, appears disposed to considering the appeals by stakeholders and leaders of thought from the area to allow Okigwe Zone complete her second tenure of 4 years in order to soothe the frayed nerves and re-unite the party for the 2015 general elections.

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Indications merged also that Aso Rock and the Presidency have since intervened in the imbroglio or complicated and confusing political problems plaguing the party in Imo State since 2007, with a view to finding lasting solutions.
The intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan according to sources close to Aso Rock Villa, follows an interim intelligence report mounted in Imo State to ascertain the possibility of securing a second tenure of 4 years for Ex-Governor Ikedi Ohakim. The interest of the presidency on Ohakim was predicated on the fact that his candidature is the only one from Okigwe Zone that could guarantee a single tenure of 4 years before allowing Owerri Zone which could to take a shot at the Governorship, afterwards and which desire they have nursed since 1998. According to the highly confidential intelligence report, the attempt by Ohakim to get back to Douglas House in 2015 is infected by “Ebola Virus” and filled with landmines. The report contains issues of incompetence, corruption, high handedness and arrogance as going to weigh down any ticket offered to Ikedi Ohakim irrespective of how attractive the single tenure conundrum could be. Another content of the report is that Chief Ikedi Ohakim was indicted by an Imo Government probe panel headed by the former Deputy Governor, Sir Jude Agbaso, a tool Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha can easily use to disqualify Ohakim from the race. He was accused of embezzling close to N65B.
“No wonder, Governor Okorocha has already started celebrating the speculated endorsement of Ohakims second tenure attempt by Aso Rock when he recently boasted that “candidate Ikedi Godson Ohakim would be a walk-over in 2015”, the sources stated.
According to the monitored intelligence reports PDP NEC was advised against fielding Sir Ikedi Ohakim and to ditch his antics following cases of alleged large scale misappropriation of public funds during his first tenure. They cited the N18.5 Billion bond secured from the capital market, to which the facilitators were accused of collecting upfront a commission of N1.8 Billion, the non-application of the N5 Billion of the fund to Oguta wonder lake tourist resort for which it was secured only to be diverted to the ring roads and fly overs which costs are much less than N5 Billion, and which Imolites were told was part of the N8.5B Nworie dredging project. Another case against Ohakim was the Royal Oak Refinery which he claimed to have commissioned at Ohaji Egbema LGA, the Mid West Airlines and the Government House project which intelligence findings have proved to be white elephant, phoney contracts and conduit pipes deliberately employed for alleged money laundering. Ohakims reputation was also a case study as having dwindled further with Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka’s recent pronouncement that “Ohakim never flogged a colleague of his in Imo State.
The report explained that at no time was Governor Ikedi Ohakim accused of physically man handling the Rev. Father or said to have flogged him. Rather his overzealous security aides were the ones known to have forced the Reverend Priest out of the road and bungled him into their waiting vehicle when he protested against their brutality. It added that Ohakim made no attempt to exonerate himself from the allegations of assault nor known to have ordered punished, those fingered in the ugly act of brutality and high handedness. They also queried the publication of the picture of the Reverend Father with a lady on sexy trousers sitting side by side to justify the act of brutality and abuse of human dignity. Ohakim who once berated Ifeanyi Araraume for an intimidating long convoy of police patrol vehicles who said the cost of purchasing and fueling those jeeps in the convoy could provide jobs for Imo youths turned out to have maintained a longer convoy once he was sworn in as Governor and so cannot be trusted with power again.
Finally the report indicated that Ikedi Ohakims attempt to use the presidency to foist himself on the PDP governorship ticket has since boosted the chances of other opposition parties such as APC and APGA with MPPP, LP and Accord Party (AP) waiting in the wings for decampee governorship aspirants from PDP.
On Ifeanyi Araraume, the intelligence report claimed that though he is currently enjoying a high level of political goodwill, and support especially from the business community, the fear in several quarters that he will not let go in 2019 is rife, and a minus to his candidature. They cited Okorocha refusal to abide by his own vows on a single 4 year tenure.
It added that several aspirants will want to leave PDP immediately he emerges the candidate in protestance they will be victimized and therefore recommended that a replacement be sourced from Okigwe Zone while Owerri Zone which is currently the greatest beneficiary in the infrastructural transformation embarked upon by the duo of Rochas Okorocha and Deputy Speaker Emeka Ihedioha should tarry awhile, after all the essence of grabbing power, is to bring about physical, social and economic infrastructures and amenities which are presently visible in the entire Owerri Zone with Okigwe Zone still lagging very much behind as if represented in the National Assembly by primitivesenators and members of the federal House of Reps.
Meanwhile, the presidency is said to have given the youthful and handsome Special Adviser (SA) to President Jonathan on Youth Empowerment, Mr. Obinna Adim a tacit support, to join the gubernatorial race.
Adim who only last month confided in some people about his preparedness to save the Imo PDP the prevalent threat of implosion and logjam occasioned by the aspiration of almost all their members to govern Imo State, will be bringing to the electioneering, his youthful zest, dexterity prominent freshness, International contacts and exposures.
He is expected to fill the gap of the poor youth empowerment in Imo State. Already Youth leaders from across the 27 LGAs of Imo State led by Obinna Nwoke and Relax Awurum are very excited that at last the presidency has hearkened to their yawnings for a youth governor for Imo State. This consideration they argue is the panacea to the rubbish represented by the past administration and the insensitive Rescue Mission Agenda. It will be a total break from the past where wounds will be easily healed with every citizens given a fresh opportunity to be part of governance unlike what obtains presently where Okorocha is building an Empire for himself, sons-inlaws and daughters inlaws which makes a mockery of good governance saying Imo State is bigger than Okorochas grandstanding and deceit.

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