Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday declared that
he prefers the position of President of Nigeria rather than being a state
governor.
Okorocha made the remark while addressing journalists in
Owerri, the state capital.
The governor however said that he would not challenge
President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 if the latter decides to re-contest.
According to Okorocha, “Governor does not fit me. What fits
me is president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I will not contest against
Buhari”.
Meanwhile, the governor has said that the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, lost the 2015 election in Imo State, because Emeka Ihedioha “took”
the ticket.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo,
Okorocha, said “again, we have also decided not to be reacting to Chief
Ihedioha’s constant media attacks on Governor Okorocha, because we have
discovered that it gives outsiders the erroneous impression that they are still
relevant in Imo politics, when in actual fact, they have all gone into
political oblivion.
“The fact is that Chief Ihedioha sustained his growth in
politics from 2003 to 2015 through name-dropping and that ugly development
ended in 2015.
“When he took the ticket of the PDP for the 2015 guber
election, everybody knew that the party had denied itself the needed impact it
would have made in that election”.
By Seun Opejobi
