Governor Okorocha has distanced himself from the posters bearing
his image as running mate to the Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim
Shettima for the 2019 presidential election, pasted in some parts of
Owerri, the state capital.
In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor,
Sam Onwuemeodo, the governor said the poster saga was another act of
mischief by elements cowed by what he had achieved as governor of Imo
State and what he represents in the politics of the South-East and
Nigeria in general.
“Those behind this mischief first invaded the social media with
the fake posters and when they discovered that the comments by decent
men and women had all doubted the source and the genuineness of the
posters, they decided to paste them in Abuja”, the statement read in part.
The statement said it was difficult to tell what the characters
behind the posters wanted to achieve. Onwuemeodo averred that it seemed
the mischief makers’ only intention was to sow seeds of discord in the
relationship existing between President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor
Okorocha.
Continuing he said: “Interestingly, Governor Okorocha has for
some times now been reported to have told those willing to hear that he
won’t run for the 2019 presidential election because of President
Buhari. By repeatedly saying that, he succeeded in disarming the little
minds who had used that issue to blackmail him.
And now they have begun to publish Okorocha being the Vice-Presidential running mate to Governor Shettima.”
Noting that the poster plot cannot fly, Onwuemeodo, maintained that Governor Rochas Okorocha is not known for double-standard.
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