The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has boasted that he would be the first Igbo person to become president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Mr. Okorocha said this when he hosted members of Orlu Zone Congress of Journalists (OZCOJ) at the Government House, Owerri on Saturday, saying his mind is made up on taking over from President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock in 2023 as the first elected civilian president of Igbo extraction.
The governor expressed the view that all the campaigns of calumny against him is “because his detractors have realised that I’m the most eligible and most detribalised Igbo man.”
He fancied himself “as the rallying point for all Ndigbo and the only one who can bridge unity, understanding and togetherness in order to realize Igbo presidency in 2023.”
Earlier, the Coordinator of OZCOJ, Ambassador Ikenna Onuoha, oiled Okorocha’s ego when he said the Orlu people are happy that one of their sons represented them very well as Governor.
According to him, the governor is a worthy ambassador of Orlu zone.
Meanwhile, the National Chairman of his party, All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr Adams Oshiomhole, had said on Saturday that the APC will take action against Governor Okorocha for alleged anti-party activities.
Mr. Oshiomhole said this on ‘The Platform’, a programme on TVC while reacting to the crisis in the party’s chapters in Ogun and Imo states.
He said the APC would write a letter of complaint to the Independent National Electoral Commission on the matter.
Oshiomhole said, “If there is a person, including a governor, who wants to sell a distorted message, the party will stop him. That is the truth. We have also seen some situations which we are trying to draw the attention of INEC to as the regulator of political parties. You cannot have anyone putting the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari as President and his own portrait as the governorship candidate on the platform of a political party that is not known to the people.”
Okorocha’s candidate and son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, is contesting on the platform of Action Alliance and the APC chairman is not amused over using President Buhari’s photographs for his campaigns.
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