Rochas Okorocha, the Governor of
Imo State, has pointed out that the people of the South-East do not hate
President Muhammadu Buhari.
Okorocha made the declaration
while assuring that the people of the South-East will use the 2019 presidential
election to prove their love for Buhari.
He said this at a meeting of
South-East APC women and youth leaders at the Government House in Owerri, the
state capital, over the weekend.
The governor also claimed that
there was a gang up against Buhari by the political elite because politicians
were not comfortable with him.
Okorocha said the alleged gang up
was due to fear of molestation for corrupt practices.
According to him, “Having
realised that our voting powers lie on the youths and women, we want to make
them vital instruments for the pursuit of this expected victory for President
Buhari come 2019. And why the Igbos should and would support the person of
Muhammadu Buhari and understand what the name Buhari actually means because
there has been a lot of misrepresentations and misunderstanding of the person
of Buhari.
“The political jobbers have
tended to give him all types of interpretations but the truth remains that
President Buhari is a good man, a leader and a man who stands by the truth and
is not a man who believes in the primitive accumulation of wealth.
“In the election of 2015, Igbos
never gave him the support he deserved. We were the least in the six
geo-political zones in the support for Buhari in 2015 and that has left a
political vacuum for Ndi Igbo both locally and at the center. So, we want to
correct that story and change the narratives that Igbos do not hate Buhari but
actually love him. Igbos this time around will support President Buhari.
“A victory for PMB is a victory
for ndi Igbo and we shall not be found wanting in the political equation of
Nigeria anytime, any day. Our bad politics in 2015 left a very big gap yet to
be filled and we must fill it. To do so, the youths and women must take up
their responsibilities if this journey must be completed.
“Igbos play a major role in the
unity of this nation. And as long as there is peace in Igbo land, Nigeria will
remain an indivisible entity because there is no nook and cranny of the nation
you will go without finding an Igbo man. So if you ask, who is a true Nigerian,
it is the Igbo man.”
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