Reject PDP, Okorocha urges Ndigbo Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled Federal Government as the worst thing that has happened to the Igbo race since the cessation of hostilities in January 1970. Consequently, the governor, who was a PDP member, has therefore advised the people of the South East to stand firm and reject the party and all that it stands for in the forthcoming general election to end their woes and lamentation, insisting that only the General Muhammed Buhari presidency has the capacity to remedy the ongoing marginalization of the people. Decrying the lingering insurgency in the country, its disastrous consequences and the inability of the Federal Government to control the scourge, the governor recalled that Buhari as the then Chief of the Army staff during the second republic courageously and effectively took the bulls by the horns and quelled the notorious Kano Maitaisane riot, expressing that with the former Head of State as president in 2015, the nagging Boko Haram issue would be a thing of the past. The governor who spoke while interacting with newsmen in Owerri said that his foray into the APC presidential primaries was meant to correct the erroneous impression created by the PDP that no Igbo man is interested in the nation’s presidency in 2015. “Since Imo came on board, we have never suffered any marginalization worse than what we have been suffering now in the hands of the PDP-led federal government. The Igbo are not enemies of the North because the little we have were all got through the leadership of the North such as FUTO and Alvan Ikoku College of Education Owerri, but today what can we boast of from the federal government, is it the Aba/Enugu road, Port Harcourt/Enugu road or the Ikot Ekpene roads that have become death traps? Is it the presence of industries, refineries, seaports, expressways, appointments into key positions, realization of the second Niger Bridge? The list is many and accountable and I believe that politics and elections should not be based on mere sentiments of where one comes from but what one has really achieved for the people one is leading. Give General Buhari a chance to do what he knows how to do best and Nigeria will change for the better because I see him as an interventionist president who will just come in and rectify the anomaly on the ground and take his leave. Governor Okorocha who used the occasion to once more enumerate his achievements for the people regretted that most states of the federation had not paid salaries for some months now with schools closed due to dwindling resources of the federal government which needs an economic wizard and a pragmatic leader to rectify.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:54:55 +0000
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