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| HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by bgossipnaija(op): 7:34am On Jul 26, 2017 |
[img]https://1.bp..com/-Hkw1VHTuSzI/WXg3iSkpxAI/AAAAAAAADww/6NLTJ0GaxJIV3vlD1KW3tyvspE6367_iACLcBGAs/s640/Rochas-Okorocha.jpg[/img] The Imo state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has revealed that he would be contesting the 2019 presidential election on two conditions; if President Muhammadu Buhari declines to seek a re-election and if 10 million Nigerians endorse him. Governor Okorocha gave the statement in Owerri, the Imo State capital, when he addressed a youth delegates from all the geo-political zones in the country, who paid him a courtesy visit. The Imo state governor also said that, as a child, the north gave him education and secured his future. He said he was born of Igbo patronage, raised by the north and empowered by the west, hence, he needed nothing more than to be a detribalised Nigerian. Okorocha also said that he is in politics not for personal aggrandisement but for the sheer glory of it and for the reason that he came to serve selflessly. According to him, “I will not run in 2019 if President Muhammadu Buhari will be running. Even at that, I will not also run at any given time unless 10 million Nigerians endorse me. “May I remind all of you that my joy this evening has no bounds for the singular fact that the Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, northern minorities, western and eastern minorities, Muslims and Christians and others can sit down in a roundtable and speak like members of one family. If only for this, my mission for this nation is today achieved. “I am an Igbo man with Igbo parentage. I was born and raised in the north. The north gave me education, guaranteed my childhood, even when I was not worthy to be called anybody in this world. “I did all my schooling— primary, secondary and tertiary— in the northern part of this country. I finished and needed to be successful and wealthy. My encounter with someone from the South-West gave me the financial empowerment. “So you can see that in my person, I have no choice whatsoever but to be a detribalized Nigerian, having been born of Igbo parentage, raised up by the North and empowered by the West. Nigeria remains my constituency. “Most of you may not know that I am not in politics for self-aggrandizement or as a means to seek livelihood. I am in this job for the glory of the job, not for the profit and for the honour of this job, not for the wealth in it. “I believe that one day it will become a manifest truth that somebody somewhere really cared for this nation. “In my quiet time have I gone through lamentations, thinking about our nation and particularly. So is the youth of Nigeria, believe me, if our youths are not alright, our nation can never be alright.” READ: http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/07/headline-ill-contest-2019-presidency-if.html |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by optional1(f): 7:38am On Jul 26, 2017 |
sold out biafra just know that the biafras will not vote for you |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by morbeta(m): 7:38am On Jul 26, 2017 |
Just look at what we did to ourselves, every clown wants to be Head of State........i blame Tinubu for this mess!!!! |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by zinachidi(m): 7:40am On Jul 26, 2017 |
Gerrara hia mehn. Which 10 million nigerians... Don't contest anything abeg, we can't even wait for ur tenure to end. This man and Ortom have my votes as Nigeria's worst governors. |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by Flyingngel(m): 7:42am On Jul 26, 2017 |
This man must be day dreaming. Look at IMO STATE as small as it is he cannot govern properly, i wonder how Nigeria will look like if he is incharge. Nonsense. |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by BiafraBushBoy(m): 7:49am On Jul 26, 2017 |
The likes of Ambode, peter Obi hasn't said anything..! E remain this niccpmpu |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by satelliteDISH(m): 7:51am On Jul 26, 2017 |
F |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by wristbangle: 7:53am On Jul 26, 2017 |
BiafraBushBoy:Lol, Okorocha would have been a formidable candidate but his abysmal performance at state level is the main reason it won't get a single vote. Had it been he has made Hay when the sun shines... 1 Like |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by BiafraBushBoy(m): 8:01am On Jul 26, 2017 |
wristbangle:In saner climates, he would be in jail without an option of fine!! Stupid okoroawusa!! 1 Like |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by rxgodwin(m): 8:03am On Jul 26, 2017 |
Faggie wont even make d primaries, f-Kuctard |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by Earthkumy(m): 8:06am On Jul 26, 2017 |
Eh! are you serious? |
| Re: HEADLINE: I’ll Contest 2019 Presidency If Buhari Declines Re-election – Okorocha by Raiders: 11:49am On Jul 26, 2017 |
optional1:did he tell you that he is Biafra? Rochas is a patriot Nigerian and have done more for Igbos than your ignorance a55 |
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