Buhari, APC Turned Me To A Social Leper In South East ― Okorocha

*Says APC will disintegrate after Buhari presidency

Former Imo state governor and senator representing Imo West,
Rochas Okorocha has said his support for Presidential Muhammadu
Buhari ambition in 2015 and membership of the All Progressives
Congress earned him the scorn of people of the South-East
geopolitical zone.

He made the disclosure on Tuesday in Abuja while speaking with
newsmen.

Findings revealed that he was a member of the splinter group of
the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA that teamed up with the
defunct Congress for Progressive Change, the defunct Action
Congress of Nigeria and the All Nigerian Peoples Party to form the
APC. Also in the alliance was the defunct New People’s Democratic
Party, nPDP.

Responding to question on his suspension from the party by the
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole led national working committee, the former
Imo state governor claimed he was a victim of a witch-hunt. He
declared that the APC could lose its grip on the electorate by the
time President Buhari exhaust his tenure in 2023.

He said: “If anything, the party repaid me evil for good. There
was no challenge I did not face or bad name I was not called in my
state.

“They brought in people who fought me when I was building the
party at the state level to fight me over the control of the
party.

I don’t want to talk about it but my party did not treat me
well.

“I have never thought of leaving the party but what happens next
will be determined by time. My only worry is that the party may
disappear with the exit of President Buhari if the ongoing
injustices are not addressed”.

Speaking on the ongoing investigations by the Economic and
Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) which he further claimed was
instigated by his successor in office, Governor Emeka Ihedioha,
Senator Okorocha said the incumbent Imo state governor was only
chasing shadows.

According to him: “I have thrown a challenge to any bank who
feels that I have borrowed money from it on behalf of Imo state to
come and contradict me.”

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