The governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma, has urged members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southeast to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) or remain hungry.
Uzodinma who made the call on Friday in Abuja while briefing State House reporters after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, said only members of the ruling party had accelerated access to federal resources.
He was basking in the euphoria of the recent defection of Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to him, the opposition can only rely on fasting to secure divine help because their fate only lies in the hands of God, adding that what a member of a ruling party will get with ease will not be automatic for members of the opposition.
“Once you believe in Nigeria and you have a pan-Nigeria attitude, of course, you will go for a national party. There is no gainsaying that if you are not with the national party, and you choose to be in opposition, of course, you will continue to fast until God answers your prayers.
“But we that are in the ruling party, of course, what it will take us to solve certain problems may be different from what it will take somebody who is not very close to the source of authority to solve his own problems,” he said.
Uzodinma said he counted himself so lucky to now have a colleague in APC in the South-east, recalling that when he became governor through the Supreme Court judgment, he was more or less an orphan because he was the only APC governor in the region.
He expressed hope that the entire South-east would become an APC zone, emphasising that the avalanche of resources available for those who belong to APC was not comparable to the little the opposition could tap from.
