Governor Rochas Okorocha, yesterday in Owerri, explained reasons that propelled him to take the Igbo, especially the people of Imo State, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He described the Igbo politicians who, according to him, had been labouring in vain to use that to blackmail him, as selfish politicians who do not think about the good of the people, but themselves only.
Okorocha, who spoke when some members of his of ‘Rescue Mission’ from all over the country visited him in the state capital, explained that he took the decision to ensure that the Igbo were not left out in the ‘political enclave called APC’.
He said that it would be a miscalculation on the part of the Igbo if the North and South-West would be forming a political party and his people were excluded. According to him, no excuse would be given to the unborn generation, “that a big political party like the APC would be formed and no notable Igbo leaders would be at the helms of its affairs. He described those criticising his entry into the APC as petty politicians who do not know politics of the time in the country.
Okorocha said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has no programme for the 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.”
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. He remarked that “if it was in PDP, nobody would have made an Igbo governor, Chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum, but today, I am the chairman of APC Governors’ Forum.”
On the issue of the big names in Imo politics not being in the APC, the governor said he became governor in 2011 without any of the big names in Imo politics supporting him.
He added that, in the same way he defeated his opponents in 2011, he would also do in 2015.
Source: National Mirror
