Rochas declares for presidency

ENUGU — Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha,
yesterday, declared his intention to run for the 2015
presidential election on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress, APC.
In an emphatic statement, the Governor said, “I will be
Nigeria’s President in 2015.”
He made the declaration at a rally organized by the
Enugu State chapter of the APC at the Igbozurume Hall,
in Emene, Enugu State.
The governor said Jonathan was not an Igbo man and
that the PDP-led government had consistently
marginalized the people of the South-East.
According to him: “Jonathan is not from the South-
East, the Vice President is not from here, the Senate
President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, the Inspector General
of Police, IGP, and the security chiefs, none of them is
from the South-East. Igbo people have no place in
Nigeria. How can we say that PDP belongs to Ndigbo?
“Niger Bridge is 419, Enugu/Onitsha and Port-Hacourt
Express way are all evidences of their hatred for
Ndigbo; they don’t remember the poor, all our leaders
in PDP are only interested in their pockets, they don’t
care about our children’s education.
“We are angry and we said we have to come out; in
Imo State, poor people are happy now, they study from
primary to university without paying penny; our God
party is bigger than their God, if what they are doing to
the poor people here is good, let them continue but if it
is bad, God will uproot them.
In 2015, I will be the president of Nigeria, I have gone
to Kaduna, I have gone to Lagos, I am in Enugu today,
they are already afraid; they are now calling for
dialogue. If they are discussing those contesting for
presidency on the platform of APC, Owelle will be the
first, Buhari and then Kwakwanso; they said it was
zoned to the North, I told our party, when did the
meeting take place? I also met with my brother Ngige
and we zoned it to Ndigbo.
“APC is an emergency party for new Nigeria, if PDP is
doing well, I would not have joined APC, when God
wants to do something, he does it from anywhere, it
doesn’t matter whether Nwobodo, Ken, Nwodo,
Ekweremadu are with us or not.
“I heard that some of them are boasting of money, but
tell them that Rochas has come; any day you hear that
PDP brought money with pick-up, tell me so that I will
bring money with trailer. All these PDP leaders in
South-East, if you put their money together, it is not
equal to half of my money.”