Gov. Rochas Okorocha To Nd'igbo Your Greed Denied Us Senate

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has warned that lack
of vision on the part of political leaders from the South-East
may deny the region the opportunity to produce the next
President of the Senate.
While addressing leaders of the APC and party supporters at the
Imo International Convention Centre in Owerri, Okorocha
lamented that despite the contributions of the Igbo to national
development since Independence, they had continued to lag
behind in Nigerian politics due to their leaders’ selfishness.
He blamed the present situation on members of the Peoples
Democratic Party, whom he accused of stealing the mandate
given to the candidates of the All Progressives Congress in the
2015 National Assembly election by the electorate.
The governor said, “It is very painful for the Igbo to lose the
position of the Senate President after they have been denied
leading positions in the country for a long time. We saw it
coming and we told our political leaders why Ndigbo should
embrace the APC, but they did not believe us.
“Now the story has changed. The PDP, which they have been
following all these years with nothing to show for it, is now an
opposition party.”
Noting that there was no election in the South-East geopolitical
zone last week, the governor said Ndigbo still stood a chance of
clinching the position of Senate President.
“There was no election in the entire South-East on the March
28. The PDP leaders, with the aid of the military and INEC
officials, intimidated and harassed our people and thereafter
wrote the results in their homes,” he said.
He assured APC supporters and natives of Imo State that the
party would do everything necessary to recover the stolen
mandate of its candidates in the state.
Addressing the gathering, former Governor Ogbonnaya Onu of
Anambra State, who is also an APC stalwart, observed that with
the emergence of the APC in 2013, everything about Nigerian
politics had changed and would no longer be the same.
Onu believed that Nigeria had started moving forward and
Ndigbo should not continue to lag behind in the country’s
politics.
He added, “In the past, the people of the South-East put all their
political eggs in one basket. They were taken for granted. The
things that were of great importance to them were left undone.
They gave their very best to the PDP, but got little or nothing to
show for it. Ndigbo should embrace the APC and make it the
number one party in the zone.
“We need Nigeria as much as she needs us. We must be in the
mainstream of Nigerian politics. Our political home should be
the APC. In the last election, members of the APC were not
treated fairly in the South-East. They were harassed and
intimidated by the PDP. In the end, those who were rejected by
the voters were declared winners.”
Senator Chris Ngige, however, described the March 28 election
as the end of “bad election in the country.”
He expressed satisfaction with the knowledge that the PDP’s
alleged involvement in electoral irregularities in the South-East
could not stop its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari,
from winning the election.