Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha on Monday in
Enugu declared his intention to contest next year’s presidential election,
saying his victory had been prophesied.
“In 2015 I will be the president of the country,”
Okorocha declared to loud cheers from broom-wielding members of the All
Progressives Congress at a rally attended by prominent members of the party in
the South-East.
The governor, who spoke in Igbo and English
languages, said his emergence as the country’s president after the 2015
presidential polls would surprise many, particularly the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party.
Okorocha, whose speech was punctuated with
exclamations of “my people, my people,” said the APC presidential ticket was
never zoned to the North.
He said his name would come first on the list of
APC presidential aspirants and that when the party’s aspirants were being
counted, his would be mentioned before those of a former military Head of State,
Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; and
Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
He said, “Three months ago when I said I want to
be president they asked, “Can an Igboman be president?”
“But now when they count those contesting for
president they will first count Rochas Okorocha, before Buhari, Atiku Abubakar
and Kwankwaso.
“When they said they have zoned the presidency to
the North, I asked, “When was the meeting held?”
“Now we have zoned it to Igboland. In 2015, there
will be a turnaround in the fortunes of Ndigbo.”
Recalling the suicide bombing at a school in Yobe
State earlier on Monday, in which several students died, Okorocha said that the
PDP had failed God.
He said Igbo had been neglected by President
Goodluck Jonathan such that no Igbo man is currently occupying any prominent
position in the country.
He also accused prominent Igbo PDP politicians of
not caring about the well being of Igbo.
“They only know themselves; they don’t care about
Igbo. APC is an emergency party for a new Nigeria; I would not have joined APC
if PDP was doing well. We will defeat PDP in 2015,” he declared.
Okorocha stressed that he had the resources to
realise his ambition, noting that he was richer than his rivals in the PDP.
He also presented two APC governorship aspirants
in Enugu State, Dr. Ifeanyi Asogwa and Okey Ezea, to the crowd at the rally.
Addressing the two governorship aspirants as
“excellencies in waiting,” Okorocha advised them to emulate his achievements in
Imo State when anyone of them becomes the governor of Enugu State.
He urged the people of Enugu to vote the APC
aspirants, whom he described as “my people in whom I am well pleased.”
A former governor of Anambra State, Senator Chris
Ngige, and many other APC chieftains were at the event.http://www.punchng.com/news/i-will-be-president-in-2015-okorocha/
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