Rochas Okorocha, the Imo West
Senator has declared that the South East alone can’t make themselves President
in 2023.
The Senator and former governor
disclosed that the South East needs the support of the North and other
geopolitical regions to achieve its aim of producing Nigeria’s president in
2023.
Addressing journalists yesterday
in Abuja, Okorocha stated that Nigeria needs a president who would continue
with the efforts of uniting the country, create jobs and also guarantee
security.
He said: “The Igbo alone cannot
make themselves the president. The quicker they come together and start shoring
up support from the North and other parts of the region the better it is to
realise the dream.
“I know we shall come up to that
point one day when who becomes the president would not be based on tribe or
religion. For as long we keep promoting tribal and religious sentiments, we are
not getting it right.”
The immediate past governor of
Imo State insisted that ethnicity or religion should have no basis in politics
as poverty knows no tribe or religion.
Okorocha stated that power must
be given to anyone who has the vision irrespective of where he comes from
“because tribe cannot put food on the table of the common man or guarantee
security.”
“As you observe, the politics of
today, everybody looks up to the North because it has the large chunk of vote
to determine who becomes the president of Nigeria. One good thing I know of the
North, especially the Islamic world, is that a good Muslim is a man of
conscience who believes in equity, justice and unity.
“That is the only hope for
anybody who wants to contest from the southern region. The North can say for
the purpose of equity and not showing tribal and religious differences, that
the North, having served as presi
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