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Okorocha to the Igbos in the North, Don't Leave

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In view of the anticipated crises that might tail the outcome of the 2015 election in Nigeria, many Easterners living in the North have started going home. In reaction to the development, the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha advised the Igbos to stay put that there was no cause for control as everything is under alarm; LOL. 

He assured that the election will be peaceful. The only condition that he believed could make any Igbo to go home should be to vote at home.


Speaking in Abuja after a meeting of the leaders of the All Progressive Congress, APC and their national assemble aspirants nationwide, he also debunked the insinuation that the party’s presidential candidate, General Mohammadu  Buhari (retd.) would Islamize Nigeria if elected saying that it was a cheap PDP politics. He argued that Buhari was a military head of state and had decrees at his beck and call but he did not use it to Islamize anybody.

“That does not mean it will bring about crisis. I do not think so. Unless for Igbo who have registered at home. They should come home to vote. But those who registered in the north should stay there.

“Again, this is one of the things we have been complaining about. Since the advent of PDP, this nation has been polarized between Muslims and Christians.

“That is the most dangerous point PDP has introduced in the Nigerian politics. Before now, you do not even know where you come from or who is who. We were all one.

“But when PDP decided to go to churches and other religious houses, they polarized the polity. That is why the only thing they have to say about Buhari is that he will make the whole Christians become Muslims overnight.

“The General was once the Head of State with Idiagbon; very powerful then. With decree in their hands, they could not Islamize anybody. Is it now we have National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly they will do that? It is not possible.

“This is cheap politics by PDP and that is what is creating the tension. Nigerians love themselves and this campaign of hate introduced by PDP is also very worrisome.

“But what is before us now is more than the sentiments of tribe and religion.”

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