All for Uzodinma: Tinubu,  Imo Women Attend August Meeting

All for Uzodinma: Tinubu,  Imo Women Attend August Meeting‎

By PHC Telegraph

As the titanic struggle for power among major political parties in the country  intensifies in three different states of the federation,  the Presidency has further ramped up its support for the re-election of Governor Hope Uzodinma.

Uzodinma who is running for re-election in November will be expecting a stiff challenge from the candidates of the PDP and LP. APGA which is in the race has just resolved its differences.

Last week, the Presidency despatched the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, a friend of the Uzodinmas to Owerri, the Imo State capital.

Among Igbos, it is the season of the August meeting; a season when the glamour of Igbo women and the expression of the wealth and influence that drives their families and their sense of industry take centre stage.

But this may not be the only reason why the August meeting is popular among the Igbo of eastern Nigeria.

Women groups seize the opportunity of the August meeting to enthrone women leaders and launch developmental schemes that are powered by self effort.

Accordingly, across the nation, Igbo women travel home to the South East to be part of the yearly August meeting which from every indication has become an important part of the Igbo sociocultural calendar.

In Imo State where Mrs Chioma Uzodinma appears to have the back of female Imolites, women from all local government areas flocked to Owerri for the August Meeting.

Wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu  who joined the campaign effort of the APC was urged Imolites to rally their  votes behind Governor Uzodinma.

She said that the Imo State Governor has distinguished  himself as a servant leader and worthy ambassador of the Igbo nation.

The wife of the President disclosed that her husband and the entire membership of the APC in the country were solidly behind Uzodinma.

She prayed for the success of the governor and expressed gratitude to Imo women for the opportunity to join them to attend this year’s August meeting.

Also speaking, Governor Uzodinma aligned himself with the comments made by his wife, Mrs Chioma Uzodinma.

Chioma had thanked the wife of the President for honouring the women of Imo State with her presence on the occasion of this year’s August meeting.

She urged women to love and support one another and appealed to them to throw their weight behind her husband and the APC in the November elections.

The All Progressives Congress,  which controls the State largely populated by Conservative Catholics is not hiding its resolve to hold unto the apparatus of power.

There have been several efforts to unite the various factions of  the APC in Imo State and many observers appear to think that much of the effort has been successful.

Although nobody can tell where Senator Rochas Okorocha is standing in all this, his son-in-law who contested against Uzodinma a few years ago has vowed publicly to back the party and its candidate.

Recall that Reverend Father Mbaka, the Catholic seer who runs the Adoration Ministry in Enugu had exclaimed in a state of spiritual frenzy, “Hope! There is Hope in Imo State!!”

That was four years ago. Four years after there appears to be a glimmer of hope for Uzodinma As the countdown begins.

Imo has gone through thorny times – mass killings and social instability – to an era of increasing public safety and renewed hope.

Hope! Will there be Hope in Imo State? Only time will tell.

For now, most civil servants, ordinary folks, members of the political opposition who are porting in the APC on a near daily basis and most royal fathers who are not politicians seem to think that Uzodinma has done well enough to merit a second tenure.