After Buhari there is the possibility of Igbo getting leadership – Okorocha

Imo state governor, Mr Rochas Okorocha has said that he does not run family government as 

claimed by some elite in the state and that those behind the claim really miss the point.

He also said that after President Muhammadu Buhari there is the possibility of leadership easily

 getting to the Igbos. Okorocha said these, on Friday, when over five thousand members of the 

Rochas Mandate Movement held solidarity rally for him in Owerri.

He stated that those who never offered the people of the state leadership when they held sway but 

only shared the people’s resources would never come back to power in the state. He further said 

that more than 4,000 children had gone to University through Rochas Foundation and more than 

15,000 of such children are also in the various colleges of the Foundation and when some of them 

graduate, they chose to be with him and he could not afford to say no to them adding that if any of 

such children becomes anything under him, they would say he or she is a member of Rochas 

Family and he does not deny that since his ambition in life is to see people grow through him. He

 said, Uche Nwosu who is from Nkwerre Local Government Area and Prince Eze Madumere, from 

Mbaitoli LGA are all counted today as members of his family because they have grown to 

prominence but when they took those steps of faith no one counted them as members of my

 family adding that he has done the state and her people proud with his monumental 

achievements. Governor Rochas Okorocha also reiterated that he would neither run for Senate 

nor for the President in 2019, but would be keen in who succeeds him and who can sustain the 

tempo of the achievements recorded by his administration, thereby resisting the pressure from 

some quarters to run for Senate since he had at different fora said he won’t run for the Office of 

President in 2019 because of President Muhammadu Buhari. His words, “The people I see here 

are people who are committed. People that are following me not because of what they could gain 

from me, but because of what we have done for the world. As it stands, come 2019, I’m contesting

 for nothing. But in my heart, I have searched out and resolved that one man has good thoughts

 about Nigeria in his heart. Secondly, the possibility that leadership will easily get to the Igbos

after 

him. That man is President Muhammadu Buhari”. He added “My coming as a leader in Imo State

 was by your efforts. No big political bigwig supported me and in my stride, I have brought sitting

 Heads of states of other countries to Imo State”. In her speech, the Coordinator of the group and 

Supervisory Commissioner for the Ministry of Happiness and Purpose Fulfillment Mrs. Ogechi 

Ololo said the Movement will be poised to insure that someone with the passion to develop the 

state like the governor will govern the state in 2019, adding that Imo People will not afford to cock 

and bull stories with Free Education, Urban Renewal and so on.