- Governor Rochas Okorocha says the people of Imo would neither support nor vote for any governorship candidate who was brandishing a stolen ticket
- Okorocha alleged that he had been blackmailed in Abuja by those he accused of parading stolen tickets
- The governor, however, assured all that President Muhammadu Buhari and all the APC marketable candidates would win overwhelmingly in the state
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has stated that Imolites would neither support nor vote for any governorship candidate “who was brandishing a stolen ticket.”
The governor made the assertion in a statement released by his chief press secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, on Wednesday, January 2, Punch reports.
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Legit.ng gathers that Okorocha said he would only support those he described as “marketable candidates in APC.”
The statement read: “lmo people do not support stolen tickets and that is why all those who stole the governorship tickets of their parties for the 2019 elections cannot fly.
“They have become stranded and looking for who to blame for their woes or misfortune. They know this fact. Imo people do not support anything stolen. That was the reason they dealt with 419ers in 1997.
“It was out of frustration that those concerned came up with the story of Governor Okorocha leaving APC for AA, which is not true.”
Okorocha alleged that he had been blackmailed in Abuja by those he accused of parading stolen tickets. He, however, insisted that politicians could not win elections through blackmail but through political popularity and goodwill.
He said: “With the ill-gotten ticket, they have also seen that the sound of bitter kola in the mouth does not reflect its real taste.
“They used blackmail and what they know how to do best to get the ticket of the party and their challenge now is how to convince Imo people to vote for them.
“In their blackmail in Abuja, they told their audience that they would win Imo without Rochas Okorocha. Then, if that is true, why are they still bothered about Rochas and his politics?
“Rochas Okorocha defeated an incumbent governor of PDP extraction in 2011 with APGA ticket and with the APC ticket defeated a sitting deputy speaker of the House of Representatives of PDP extraction too, who had the backing of the federal government, in 2015.
“They told lies to those who do not know them and got the ticket but Imo people know them and won’t entertain lies from them.”
He continued: “The only blackmail tool they have is the son-in-law issue. And nobody has gone to court to say that a man from Nkwerre local government area cannot be governor because his in-law from Ideato South local government area is a governor.
“Rochas Okorocha does not play hide-and-seek.
“He has assured all that President Muhammadu Buhari would win overwhelmingly in the state and all the APC marketable candidates because you cannot force Imo people to vote for someone they know cannot govern them."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that Uche Nwosu, chief of staff and son-in-law to Governor Rochas Okorocha, said that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Senator Hope Uzodinma, will not be governor.
Nwosu, who spoke to his supporters shortly after his arrival from Abuja, said that “Uzodinma is a tenant in the APC.”
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