Ojukwu Would Have Joined APC –Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha apparently in response to his bitter critics over his dumping of the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA) for the All Progressive Congress(APC), declared that if the late Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu were still alive, that he  would have not only given his consent but would have joined the APC.

He noted in a statement that the late Ikemba Ojukwu while alive had been concerned with, how to launch Ndi-Igbo back to the mainstream of Nigeria politics after the civil war.

“That was why, when he came back from exile in 1982, he did not join the Nigeria Peoples Party, NPP, that was somewhat ethnic, but joined the National Party of Nigeria, NPN, that was national both in outlook and in operations.

“And the NPN then unlike the PDP of today, had an Igbo man as Vice President and other Igbo sons and daughters in sensitive positions” the statement reads.

Okorocha further stated that Ikemba Ojukwu also joined APGA at the time he did, to protest against the gross marginalization of Ndi-Igbo by the PDP, with no Igbo holding any sensitive position either in the PDP-led federal government or in the party.

“Ikemba Ojukwu would have therefore joined the APC with other progressives across the country having seen the party as the one that has good opportunities for the Igbos, even to become the president of the country.

Since Ojukwu had died, God gave Governor Okorocha the wisdom and the vision to take Ndi-Igbo to APC.

What men and women of goodwill of Igbo extraction should do, is join him for leading the Igbos into APC”.

According to the governor  a total of 637,000 Imo people registered with the APC during the last registration exercise in the state, which he noted was the highest  number any party would register.