… Says Udenwa is blinded by his opposition Against me
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has said that if Chief Emeka Ihedioha, former deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, had listened to his wise counsel, he would have become the country’s senate president.
This is even as the governor also said that the former governor of the state, Chief Achike Udenwa missed the opportunity to join the league of Bola Tinubu as national leader because of his (Udenwa’s) blind fight against him (Okorocha).
Speaking during an interactive forum with newsmen at the Government House, Owerri, Okorocha disclosed that before party primaries, he had approached Ihedioha to run for Senate position on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC and that given his then position as the principal officer of the National Assembly, he was likely to emerge as the senate president.
The governor lamented that it was simply arrogance and over-ambitiousness that made Ihedioha loose sight of the greater benefit ahead of him, adding, “if Ihedioha had contested the Senate position under the APC platform as I had advised him, he would have emerged as the Senate president having already been a principal officer of the House of Representatives.”
On Udenwa, he said he had personally approached the former governor to drop his unending opposition of his (Okorocha) administration and join the APC so as to become one of the rallying points in the country as Tinubu, saying “I told him that there no amount of support that Fashola would give to Tinubu that I cannot give him”.
He used the opportunity to call on the former governors of the state, Chief Achike Udenwa, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, Chief Ihedioha and prominent Igbo leaders to join the ruling APC in order to advance the course of the South-East.
The governor said the Igbo leaders should join forces with him in the APC to fight the course of Ndigbo.
He stated that Ndigbo should jettison religious and ethnic sentiments and support the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, stressing that as long as political power now resides in the North, the hope of the South-East producing the president of the country will come to fruition.
“Prominent Igbo leaders should come and join me in the APC to fight the Igbo cause which is the physical and development of the South-East.
He insisted that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP)-led Federal Government abandoned the South-East as no federal projects were completed through out the 16 years of the PDP administration.
“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.
