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Okorocha Addresses Reports That He Has Left APC, Confirms Picking Up Senatorial Ticket

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5 years ago

November 27, 2018

Outgoing Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, has disclosed that he has picked the APC Senatorial ticket as he addresses reports that he has left the ruling party.
While speaking during a media parley at the Government House in Owerri on Tuesday, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, said that he is still in the All Progressives Congress.

According to PUNCH, the influential politician who disclosed that his support for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election is incontestable and unshakable, added that Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, remained the best candidate for the election in the state.

“He is visionary, dutiful, hardworking and a proactive young man. He remains the best among all the candidates for the governorship election in the state.”

Okorocha contended that he was still in the APC having been one of the founding fathers of the party in the country.

“I cannot be part of destroying the mansion I have helped in building. I totally support the APC and all of its candidates for the 2019 general elections.”

He further described what played out in the APC in the recent past on who emerges as its Imo State governorship candidate as a political injustice.

Stating that the choice of Senator Hope Uzodinma as the state governorship candidate for the 2019 election was not the choice of the party faithful. He regretted that the APC which was known for uprightness and justice had lost its integrity and purposeful bearing.

He further said that he was not embattled in any form but that the fight against him was because of his political sagacity.

The governor blamed the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who he described as a simpleton, having been deceived by some disgruntled members of the party.

“I still have my numerous supporters with me, but those who are naïve who want to leave and have left, I wish them good luck. This is because I cannot stop them.”

Meanwhile, Okorocha had disclosed that he has the APC ticket for Imo West (Orlu) Senatorial District election, just as he added that he would coast to victory in the election.