The South-East zone of the Presidential Support Committee of the All Progressives Congress has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to rescind the suspension of Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha.

At a news conference jointly addressed by the Director of Inter-Party Affairs, Robert Ngwu, National Legal Adviser,Ejikeme Ugwu and Director of Political Matters, Comrade Maxwel Okoye in Owerri, the Committee noted that suspending a key stakeholder like Okorocha did not speak well of the NWC and Oshiomhole.

The group consequently threatened to embark on legal and mass action if the NWC did not repeal the suspension as it was an orchestrated agenda to deny the Igbos the presidency in 2023.

“Okorocha’s suspension came to us as a shock. There is no way a cabal can suspend a major financier of the party. We give the NWC and the National Chairman 48 hours to reverse the suspension or we will resort to legal and mass action against APC leadership.

“The suspension is aimed at disorganizing Igbo ahead of 2023. Oshiomhole cannot wake up and suspend a major financier of the party.

“We plead with Buhari not to allow some few individuals rubbish his friends because we know that Okorocha is a good friend of the President,” they said.