The Imo State governor and Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum,
Owelle Rochas Okorocha has advised people of the South-East zone to
refrain from harboring bad blood against people of other parts of the
country, if they are serious about producing the country’s President in
the future.
Okorocha, who made this known yesterday while
fielding questions from newsmen in Owerri, the Imo state capital,
declared that he has been vindicated by the eventual victory of
President Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28 election.
According to
him, “I appeal to Ndigbo to avoid unnecessary bickering and antagonism
with the
North, West and other parts of the country, so as to brighten
the prospects of a president of Igbo extraction in future.”
While
noting that Rivers and Akwa Ibom states are very strategic to the All
Progressives Congress, APC, and that the electorate in the two states
voted overwhelmingly for the APC in the last election, he alleged that,
“their votes were stolen by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through
various forms of electoral malpractices.”
Although he refused to
disclose the strategies his APC political platform intends to use in
sacking PDP in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States, the APC bigwig however noted
that plans were on to actualize the target.
On why his
administration was yet to appoint commissioners and special advisers,
the Governor said it has enabled him to save money for the state, for
capital projects, explaining that, “If I appoint them now, they will
start demanding for impress, traveling allowance, hazard allowance and
this is outside their monthly pay. This has enabled me save some money
for the state, for capital projects.”
Asked why all public taps
in the state have dried up, he noted that he preferred sinking water
boreholes for communities instead of procuring chemicals, maintaining
machines and other facilities.
Source: DailyPost
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