From Everest Ezihe, Owerri
Former Imo North senator, and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ifeanyi Araraume has rejected his nomination by Governor Hope Uzodimma into The newly constituted Omo Council of Elders
Araraume in a statement issued Tuesday by his media aide, James OkoromaOkoroma, said he was. never consulted by the dtate government before being nominated and constituted
Senator Araraume, who is the Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited maintained that “it was procedurally wrong for the Imo state government to have first listed nominees and published their names as members of the Council without first of all consulting them.”
He added that while he was not averse to any genuine effort at peace-making
and consensus-building in the State, he would not cave in to under-hand
tactics meant to blackmail and take advantage of Leaders who are never
taken into confidence on the way Imo State is governed.
Senator Araraume further pointed out that as one of the leaders of Imo State
and the All Progressives Congress (APC), he was praying for the restoration
of peace and security in the State, insisting that God would not abandon Imo people in the current economic and security challenges confronting them.
