{"id":27159,"date":"2020-01-29T19:11:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27159"},"modified":"2020-01-29T19:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:11:53","slug":"ezekwem-opens-up-on-resignation-a-cabal-in-pdp-didnt-want-me-after-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27159","title":{"rendered":"Ezekwem Opens Up on Resignation: A Cabal In PDP, Didn\u2019t Want Me After Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=27161\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ezekwemm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ezekwemm.png 643w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ezekwemm-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Apparently reaching to divergent views that trailed his resignation as chairmen of Imo State chapter of PDP, and subsequent withdrawal from the party, Chief Charles Ezekwem has opened up his own side of the story and why he called it quits.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ezekwem who also serves as chairman of Heartland FC in Owerri surprised even bookmarkers when he tendered resignation letter as party chairman days after PDP lost the Supreme Court challenge that removed Ihedioha and put Senator Hope Uzodinma of APC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">According to Ezekwem, his desire to quit was prompted by the alleged activities of a certain cabal within the governor\u2019s circle who didn\u2019t want him (Ezekwem) to be part of the administration when Ihedioha was in-charge.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Narrating his ordeal, Ezekwem said that his trouble started during the party primaries when he advocated for a free and fair conduct for all candidates which was misconstrue that he was in support of another candidate other than Ihedioha.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ezekwem said that the problem continued even after the campaigns and subsequent victory as some elements didn\u2019t want to see him again.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe cabal didn\u2019t want me to be in place after the elections. There were plans to remove me after the elections and it even continue before the Supreme Court final judgment.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDecisions were taken against me as party chairman. Chairmen of LGAs were suspended even without my inputs. Meetings of the party were called without my knowledge, some top officials of the party threatened those close to me to desist from associating with me or they won\u2019t gain anything from the Ihedioha government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWithout knowing what would happen at the Supreme Court, they had plotted my removal and replacement with another person from my locality.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">But I got to know and it was confirmed it to me that they wanted to disgrace me out before my tenure expires in August. So I have to leave them\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">On his next move, Ezekwem said he will make it public anytime he decides.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently reaching to divergent views that trailed his resignation as chairmen of Imo State chapter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27162,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27159\/revisions\/27162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}