-You’re a rabble rouser – Obi‘

The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, slammed political leaders from Anambra State, accusing them of playing cash and carry politics, which had sabotaged the efforts of Ndigbo in achieving the age-long ambition of producing the President of the nation.

Okorocha stated this at the inauguration of the South-East interim executive committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC) at the Ahiajioku centre in Owerri, Imo State capital recently.

He lamented that some politicians from Anambra State were prepared to collect money and contract to sabotage the efforts of the zone, adding that such mentality must be discarded, if Ndigbo is determined to achieve its political aspiration.

The Sun newspaper quotes him as saying: “Anambra is the major problem of Ndigbo.  Every election, the leaders from Anambra State will go behind the zone and collect money and contract from the Federal Government and sell out Ndigbo for their selfish ends.  But we must resist them now”.

Governor Okorocha further pointed out that it was lack of cooperation between Chief Jim Nwobodo and Dr. Alex Ekwueme that denied Ndigbo the golden opportunity of producing the president of the country in 1999.

The governor assured that APC would champion the needed change and put an end to cash and carry politics.  According to him, Ndigbo must produce either the president or the Vice-President in 2015 on the platform of APC.  His position was predicated on the calculation that neither the South-West nor South-South will produce President or Vice-President in the next election.  He therefore urged Ndigbo to work together for the unity of the Igbo race to avoid the experience of the past.  “In APC, Ndigbo must produce either the Vice-President or the President or the other way round in 2015.  But we must be united to achieve this.  We must work together as a crop of new leaders to move Ndigbo forward unlike what happened in the past when Igbo leaders were not united”.

He said APC would take-over the leadership of the House of Representatives soon.  In readiness for the wind of change, Okorocha advised the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, to move over to the party in order to retain his position.

“I have advised my brother, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, .to move and join the APC to retain his position for Ndigbo.  I have said it and I will continue to say that APC is the best option for Ndigbo and we must embrace it”, Okorocha added.

But in a swift reaction, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Governor Obi, Mr. Mike Udah, in a statement, described Governor Okorocha as “a rabble rouser, an ingrate and one so arrogant, who has no respect for senior citizens.

“Okorocha’s utterances smack of sheer arrogance.  They emanate from an over-ambitious rabble rouser, who easily gets carried away any moment he is handed a microphone.  The Imo State Governor is desperate to become the next Igbo president or vice president of Nigeria.  This is simply the reason he abandoned the Al Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) through which he recorded his first electoral victory since he started jumping from pillar to post over the years.

“His desperation did not allow him to realize that he was made by Governor Peter Obi and Chief Victor Umeh, who are both chieftains of APGA.  It is laughable.  In fact, unfathomable that a man could bite the finger that fed him without qualms.

“Such attitude could only come from Okorocha who betrayed Chief Martin Agbaso on whose back he rode to the Imo State Government House and slammed his younger brother and former deputy governor, Jude Agbaso.  Okorocha’s victims are legion.  They include the church, mothers and children upon whom his Abortion Bill would have dealt a crushing blow and so many others.

“Okorocha has no moral ground to talk about unity among Ndigbo.  Is he united with Emeka Ihedioha who, with a whiff of recklessness, he has advised to join the APC simply because he is already jittery that the Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives would chase him away from Douglas House, Owerri in 2015?”

THE LEADER learnt that chastisement by Gov. Okorocha may not be unconnected with the  defeat of APC candidate, Senator Chris Ngige in the recent gubernatorial election in Anambra State.  Governor Okorocha who defected from APGA to APC was a staunch supporter of Ngige.  The defeat of the senator by virtually unknown APGA candidate, Chief Willy Obiano did not go down well with Governor Okorocha and his APC party.  The fear being that if other Igbo states tow the line of Anambra, he (Rochas) would not be able to deliver the South-East to APC  as he had promised.

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