The executive Governor of Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, on Monday declared his intention to run
for the presidency under the All Progressives Congress,
APC platform.
He said in an emphatic statement, “I will be Nigeria’s President in 2015″.
This declaration was made at a rally organized for him by the Enugu APC at the Igbozurume Hall, in Emene, Enugu State.
According to Rochas, Jonathan is not an Igbo man and that the PDP-led
government had consistently marginalized the people of the South-East.
Jonathan is not from the South-East, the Vice President is not
from here, the Sen President, the Speaker of the House of Reps, the CJN,
the IGP, the security chiefs, none of them is from the South-East he pointed out.
“Igbo
people have no place in Nigeria, how can we say that PDP belongs to
Ndigbo, Niger Bridge is 419, Enugu/Onitsha and Port-Hacourt Express way
are all evidence of their hatred for Ndigbo; they don’t remember the
poor, all our leaders in PDP are only interested in their pockets, they
don’t care about our children’s education.
“We are angry and we
said we have to come out; in Imo State, poor people are happy now, they
study from primary to university without paying penny; our God passes
their God, if what they are doing to poor people here is good, let them
continue but if it is bad, God will uproot them”.
The Governor continued that, “In 2015, I will be the president of Nigeria, I
have gone to Kaduna, I have gone to lagos, I am in Enugu today, they are
already afraid; they are now calling for dialogue.“If they are
discussing those contesting for presidency under the APC, Owelle will be
the first, Buhari and then Kwakwanso; they said it was zoned to the
North, I told our party, when did the meeting take place? I then also
had to meet with my brother Ngige and we zoned it to Ndigbo.
“APC
is an emergency party for new Nigeria, if PDP is doing well, I won’t
have joined APC, when God wants to do something, he does it from
anywhere, it doesn’t matter whether Nwobodo, Ken, Nwodo, Ekweremadu are
with us or not. I heard that some of them are boasting of money but tell
them that Rochas has come; any day you hear that PDP brought money with
pick-up, tell me so that I will bring money with trailer, all these PDP
leaders in South-East, if you put their money together, it is not equal
to half of my money.
“Somebody told me that our party is popular
in Enugu but that there is no money, I have come to Enugu today, you
will see the difference, go back to your ward and campaign”.
In a remark, Senator Chris Ngige lauded Okorocha, who he said God had
sent to lead Ndigbo in the battle for freedom, whereas other Igbo
leaders were busy looking for oil well, Special Adviser and the rest of
them.
“We liberated Anambra, Imo is liberated, Ebonyi is half,
Enugu is nailed, we have to remove that nail; we have to uproot the PDP
and free the people.
“We need to put APC governor here in Enugu;
before now, no election takes place in Enugu, results were written in
bedroom and hotels, it must stop”.
It might interest you to know that Buhari, Atiku, Gov. Fashola and
The GodFather of APC himself - Tinubu were present at the just concluded wedding
of one of the daughters of Governor Rochas in Imo State. Now the question is,
how can all these great men who are supposed to be political opponents
converge in one place for one man? Something is going on. 2015 is obviously going to be full of surprises but however, time will tell.
Let us pray for Nigeria.
As Reported by
Emmanuel Uzodinma
for Daily Post Nigeria.