Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has often lamented that Ndigbo missed an opportunity by not voting for candidate Muhammadu Buhari and the APC in the last presidential ballot.
In a recent interview, Okorocha went down that route again, suggesting that the reason why Ndigbo has gotten no appointments from the Buhari administration thus far, may just have to do with the fact that they refused to vote for Buhari when they had the chance to.
Okorocha said he wailed like a lonely voice in the wilderness during the campaigns; asking the people in the five south-east states of Anambra, Enugu, Abia, Ebonyi and Imo, not to put their eggs in one basket, but few listened to him.
In its reaction, the South East chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, should shut it because he never campaigned for Buhari either.
“I am sorry to comment on the blame game being played by His Excellency, Owelle Rochas Okorocha; for his interview can be classified as Okorocha Rescue Mission from the less than 5% score in the 2015 presidential election from the entire South East,” South East APC spokesperson, Osita Okechukwu said in a statement.
“All one can say is that to the best of our knowledge, he neither truly campaigned for President Muhammadu Buhari nor the All Progressives Congress.
“Methinks that while we blame Ndigbo for putting all our eggs in one basket; we should blame our leaders who genuinely didn’t campaign for President Buhari nor APC candidates in their domain.”
The APC spokesperson challenged the governor to make public how he assisted the party’s candidate for the Orlu Senatorial District of Imo State, Osita Izunaso, as well as those of Owerri and Okigwe districts, Uche Onyeguocha, and Benjamin Uwajumogu during the March 28 National Assembly election.
“A little assistance from Governor Okorocha could have earned APC two senatorial seats, and other legislative seats, so no point for him to blame Ndigbo without blaming himself,” Okechukwu thundered.
“This is a man some of us advised not to run against the zoning convention; that it will deny Ndigbo the chance of producing either the chairman or the vice presidential slot and he refused. He thought we are in Nollywood.”
He thought we are in Nollywood. LOL
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