Please Join APC, Okoroach Woos PDP Bigwigs

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has called on the former governor Achike Udenma and the ex-deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, to join his party, the All Progressives Congress, in order to bring forth the desired change in the south-east.

Governor Rochas Okorocha

The governor also urged prominent Igbo leaders to join force with him in the APC to fight the common cause of the Ndigbo. Okorocha made this statement at  an interactive forum with newsmen at the Government House.
He further counselled Igbo leaders to shun ethnic sentiments and support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that now that the power has returned to the north, there is a better chance for the Ndigbo to produce a president in the nearest future, The Sun reports.

Okorocha said: “Prominent Igbo leaders should come and join me in the APC to fight the Igbo cause which is the physical development of the South-East.”
The Imo state governor slammed the PDP-led government for abandoning the south-east during its 16-year rule adding that no functional federal projects were completed through this period.
He said: “The PDP-led Federal Government totally abandoned the South-East but with my party, APC emerging at the centre, I am confident that all the abandoned federal government projects in the South East would be completed.”

He further added that he had advised Ihedioha, who ran against him in the April 11 gubernatorial election, to contest the position of Senate on the platform of the APC, stating that by now the former deputy speaker would have been elected the Senate president.
“I had advised him, he would have emerged as the Senate president having already been a principal officer of the House of Representatives,” Okorocha concluded.
Meanwhile, a chieftain of the All Progressive Grand Alliance Campbell Umeh-Nzekwe had said that it is time for the south-east to produce the next president.
Umeh-Nzekwe, who is the deputy national organising secretary of APGA, noted that 2019 is the best time for Ndigbo to work in unison to produce the next number one citizen.