Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has
berated the Peoples Democratic Party for zoning the party’s
vice-presidential ticket to the South-East –ahead of the 2019 general
election.
Describing the zoning of the ticket to
the region as a mockery, Okorocha said the PDP never remembered the
South-East as fit enough to occupy the office of the vice-president
during its 16 years in power.
He said the party lacked the potential
to win the 2019 presidential election, adding that the party was just
waking up from its slumber.
“Why is the PDP now considering the
South-East for the vice-presidency after 16 years? Are they just waking
up from their slumber?,” Okorocha asked.
The governor, who spoke through his
Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, on Monday, said it was
unfortunate that the South-East was never remembered by the PDP during
the party’s 16 years in power.
He said, “For the 16 years the PDP was
in power, it never considered the South-East as being fit for the
position of the vice-president. The party never had any reason to
remember the South-East as a major power bloc.
“It never considered the South-East as
being capable of holding any sensitive position in the country. They are
just waking up from their slumber after being out of power.
“The PDP never allowed the South-East to
have the president, the vice-president, the senate president, the
speaker of House of Representatives, and so on. The South-East totally
lost out in the PDP government. Even in terms of projects, the
South-East had a very rough experience in the PDP government.
“All the federal roads in the zone were
all deathtraps until the party was voted out of power. The Second Niger
Bridge became an endless pit for the PDP. Some oil wells belonging to
some states in the zone were taken away and given to other states
outside the zone. It was a hopeless situation for the zone.”
Okorocha, who said the vice-presidential
ticket was a bait by the opposition party to deceived the people of the
region, added that the people of the region could see beyond the bait.
He said, “Now, they have started to
dangle the VP carrot before the zone because they desperately want power
again. And they also know that what the zone could not get from the PDP
government, it could now get from the Muhammadu Buhari-led All
Progressives Congress government.
“The fact is that the South-East would
get its due from the APC administration because the APC believes in fair
play, justice and equity. The PDP toyed with the fate of the South-East
which the APC has not done. And the good signs are everywhere. The
South-East will be better under the APC government.”
He said the major concern of the Buhari
administration was to develop the South-East, stressing that the Federal
Government would not neglect the region as the PDP did.
“Our interest is to develop the
South-East. The APC administration will do that for the zone. Anything
due to the zone will be given to it because the level of greed in the
PDP cannot be found in APC. The APC won’t wait until it is out of power
before remembering the South-East or any other zone. That cannot be our
portion.”
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