The Imo State Governor, Rochas
Okorocha, has on Saturday, said that the then leader of the All Progressives
Grand Alliance, late Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu could not raise his hand as the
party’s flag bearers in 2011.
Okorocha said this while claiming
that all the big names in Imo State never supported him, yet he came out
victorious in his elections.
He assured the people of the
state that his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, who he had earlier endorsed as his
successor, won’t disappoint them.
He said he won both the 2011 and
2015 elections without the support of any of the political bigwigs in Imo
politics.
Okorocha spoke on Saturday
evening when the leaders of the Ideato South Local Government Area paid a
courtesy call on him at the Government House, Owerri.
The governor said , “In 2011 ,
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Chief Arthur Nzeribe , Dr. Mrs. Kema Chikwe, Chief
Hope Uzodinma, Chief Achike Udenwa, Emeka Ihedioha, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, Senator
Ifeanyi Araraume were either in the Peoples Democratic Party or the defunct
Action Congress of Nigeria.
“None of them was in the All
Progressives Grand Alliance, but I confronted them and God gave us victory over
them and we defeated an incumbent.
“When I visited the late Chief
Odimegwu Ojukwu, I expected that he would come and raise my hand as the
candidate of the party, but he could not do so because he fell sick before the
time. Only God raised my hand and we won.”
Fallacy!
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