Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, has taken a swipe at the
leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,
calling him a mad man.
Rochas Okorocha said this during
an interview with the Sun news where he also stated that he would
support president Muhammadu Buhari should the President contest in the
2019 Presidential election.
“These young men seeking relevance as a
livelihood and to tell you how daft some people can be, any mad man can
just rise one day and lead a senseless agitation and he’d get
followers.
“Even the way IPOB was handled by the government wasn’t
right. I kept telling the government that this young man, Kanu Nnamdi,
is inconsequential in the matter- treat him like who he really is.
“But
now he’d been given some national attention branding the whole Igbo as
IPOB members and it’s the reason for the quit notice some gave our
people in the North. The matter is laughable. You cannot imagine me,
Rochas being asked by IPOB that let’s go to war and I follow.
“That’s
the greatest insult to people of the east. Even if you come today and
start a church you name ‘Kill Every Human Being Church’, some people
will still join you. There are always people for everything you do. I
would have handled it differently.”
“I have so many windows open
in 2019 as I wait for Mr. President to make his declaration, I want to
be politically relevant and I have made the decision never to watch my
country sink”, Okorocha told Sun.
On his support for President
Buhari, he stated: “If President Buhari declares to run for the office
again in 2019, I will support him, because the man has a character to
develop Nigeria. He has a thick skin that we need.
“We have a
faulty foundation and I see President Buhari as that man who can build
the foundation that we need. But I don’t see him as someone who will
build this nation with a fantastic finishing with nice furniture.
“He’s
just going to build a solid foundation upon which success and
prosperity for the land shall be accomplished. And that’s where people
like me would come in.”
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