- * As Grassroot Electorates Express Massive Support To Him
By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief) @CelestineOkaf11
Ahead of the party primaries for the Imo State governorship election scheduled for November this year, leading aspirant on the platform of Labour Party (LP), Dr James Okoroma, has commenced state-wide consultations with the leaders and grassroots people of Imo state.
Dr Okoroma's consultation visits have taken him to several local council areas and wards in the state since the beginning of the New Year. So far, his on-going campaign train has traversed the entire council and wards in his home base of Mbaise and parts of Owerri zone.
The consultation exercise is also continuing in Okigwe zone axis of the Imo, which is another strong support base of the Labour Party gubernatorial aspirant. Dr Okoroma will also continue the third phase of the grassroot engagements in Orlu Senatorial Zone of the state.
In continuation of this strategic consultations, however, Okoroma has also visited some Imo State Labour Party leaders, which, according to his Campaign Organization, will remain a continuous exercise upto to the party primary in November.
One of the leaders of the party the journalist cum politician visited recently is the Labour Party Youth Leader in Imo state, Mr. Okorondu Chris Nwachukwu. During the visit, however, Dr Okoroma intimated him on his decision to run for the governorship race in the state, explaining that his resolve was born out of the urgent need to actualize a "New Imo" Agenda and rescue the state from "incompetent governance", and restore Imo state to the glorious Sam Mbakwe era.
Okoroma also told his host that he and his campaign entourage has come to also seek the blessings of the Labour Party Youth Leader and the support of the entire youths of Imo state, especially within the Labour Party family, ahead of the gubernatorial primary.
The aspirant assured the Youth Leader that as a young person himself, he is the race to represent his generation, and above all, to prove to the long suffering people of Imo state that their years of agony over bad leadership will soon be over if he wins the Labour Party nomination and ultimately gets elected as next governor of the state.
Dr Okoroma who is a respected senior Journalist, an Abuja based businessman and a University Lecturer, also told his party's Youth Leader that Imo state popularly referred to as the "Eastern Heartland" deserve a better, more responsible and result-oriented leadership. NNL.
