The Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has given reasons
that propelled him to take Ndi-Igbo especially the people of the state,
Imo, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, stating that some Igbo
politicians who have been labouring in vain to use that to blackmail him
are selfish politicians who do not think about the good of Ndi-Igbo,
but about themselves only.
Okorocha made this clarification while addressing thousands of Rescue
Missionaries from all over the country in Owerri. The governor
explained that he ensured that Ndi-Igbo were not left out in the
political enclave called APC because the Igbo race had, before now,
spearheaded anything Nigeria including the independence, and that it
would be a serious political miscalculation on the part of Ndi-Igbo if
the North and South-West would be forming a political party and Ndi-Igbo
won’t be there.
According to him, that cannot be explained, and no excuse would be
given to the Igbo unborn that a big political party like APC would be
formed and no notable Igbo leaders would be at the helm of its affairs,
describing the Igbo criticizing his entry into APC as petty politicians
who do not have time to sit down to analyze the politics of the time in
Nigeria.
He revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no programme
for Ndi-Igbo and that is why since 1999 when the party came to power at
the national level, no Igbo man has become the vice-president, or the
president, and even the national chairman of the party and the Senate
President they had for some time, had been totally taken away from them
and that PDP, as it is now does not have any position for Ndi-Igbo.
“The political party that does not have an Igbo man as President,
Vice-President, Senate President, and Speaker of the House of
Representatives, the National Chairman of the party or the chairman of
its Board of Trustees is an enemy of the Igbo nation”. Okorocha stressed
that Igbo who are in the party are there for themselves, perhaps for
appointments and contracts.
The governor reiterated that there was no way the North and the
Yoruba would be forming a party and one major tripod of the country, the
Igbo won’t be there, and said that, it would have been very
unfortunate. He remarked that if it was in PDP, nobody would have made
an Igbo governor chairman of PDP governor’s forum, but today he is the
chairman of APC governor’s forum.
On the issue of the big names in Imo politics not being in APC, the
governor said he became governor in 2011 without any of the big names in
Imo politics supporting him, and that, the same way he defeated them in
2011, he would also defeat them in 2015. He said PDP is not good for
Imo people and Ndi-Igbo in general. He told the Igbo to support him and
APC.
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