…Says APC Was A Hurried Arrangement To Take Power
The agitation for the 2023 Presidency thickened on Monday with a former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, announcing the intention to establish a new political party movement in Nigeria.
Okorocha, representing Imo West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, said himself and other progressive-minded politicians were perfecting the plan as a result of the silent agitations and complaints across the country against the current state of the nation.
According to him, it was clear from the Nigerians’ body language that they were not pleased with what was on the ground in Nigeria.
In an interview with journalists in Abuja, the Senator, who is a founding member of the All Progressive Congress, unfurled the plans.
At the invitation of Governor Nyesom Wike, Okorocha, while commissioning projects in Rivers State, recently provoked a new controversy when he called on the good people of APC and the People’s Democratic Party to come together and rescue Nigeria in 2023.
He said on Monday that the regrouping of ‘good politicians’ was urgently needed to restore public confidence in governance and save the country.
Former insisted that the country needed political reengineering, warning that Nigerians cannot be fooled again by mischievous politicians in 2023.
“The movement for a new Nigeria has begun and we must come together, I mean progressive Nigerians to make the country work,” Okorocha said.
Asked if the pledge of the new political movement for a new Nigeria would not be identical to that of the APC in 2015, he replied that the APC was quickly formed to seize power from the PDP without much focus on the character of those who were championing the path.
He assured that people with an established track record of accomplishment and public spirit are championing the political alliance, adding that it was no longer ideal to allow people who do not have a true love for the nation’s stability and prosperity to hijack power.
The ex-governor said, “The APC was a hurried arrangement, it was hurriedly formed to take power when the then government was drifting.
APC would have been better until people who were not members of the party; people who came for congratulatory message hijacked the party and became Lords.”
