Hon Chudi Offodile, former aspirant of the United Progressives Party, UPP, has resigned his membership of the party.
Offodile, who spoke to journalists in Awka, said his decision came after he noticed the level of alleged corruption in the party as perpetuated by the party’s national chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie and his co-aspirant, Chief Osita Chidoka.
He said, “I have noted the willful and corrupt manipulation of the party’s delegates’ list by Chief Chekwas Okorie, but it is the display of insensitivity to the life of a party official that died in the primary election that made me to reconsider my membership.
“I hereby resign my membership of the party with effect from today the 21st day of August 2017. I urge all my supporters and all those who believe in the Biafran ideology of equality, freedom and justice to do the same and await further directives.”
Recall that one person, Hon Uwakwe Maduabuchi, a ward chairman had died as a result of fracas resulting from disagreement over delegates’ list of the party.
Offodile also clarified that it was not true that he nominated an agent for the primary election that was held last Saturday, saying that he had earlier backed out of the race after he noticed corrupt behaviour on the side of Okorie and Chidoka who connived and doctored the delegates’ list, thereby disenfranchising many members of the party.
“I did not appoint any agent nor did I participate in the primary election. The list of delegates contained strange names, unlike the authentic delegate’s list that has the phone numbers of delegates displayed.
“Besides, how can a political party carry on with a primary election with one of its officers lying stone dead, a victim of corrupt manipulation of delegates’ list.
“I called on the party to call off the accreditation as a mark of respect for the dead officer who was killed performing his duty, but it went ahead with it,” he said.
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