The persistent claim by governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will lose elections in the state and also lose over 5 million votes in the South East because of the failure of the party to give the gubernatorial ticket to his son – in – law, Uche Nwosu, has been dismissed as an empty boast and the wishful thinking of a man who underestimated his unpopularity. A statement in Owerri by the director of Media and Special Duties to the APC governorship candidate in Imo State, Sen. Hope Uzodimma, Declan Emelumba said the only reason APC is back on track in Imo and set to sweep all the elections in 2019 is because of the emergence of Uzodimma as the governorship candidate of the party in the state. The statement said that “Governor Okorocha’s membership of the party was a big minus and that contrary to the empty claim by him, if his son-in-law had won the APC gubernatorial ticket in Imo, it would have been the surest ticke