Uncertainty Over Vice-Presidential ticket, Rochas Okorocha Of Imo State May Dump APC

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Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha is contemplating leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC), in a bid to retain his seat in 2015 or actualize his never hidden desire to occupy a presidential or vice-presidential seat in Aso Rock.
Sources gathered that the development is due to the poor acceptance of the party in Imo State and the South-East region, as well as uncertainty on whether he would get the APC V-P candidate slot. Okorocha’s decision was also informed by the fact that all his colleagues in the region are solidly behind President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election ambition.
Presently, the Igbo community considers him the ‘black sheep’, for feeling comfortable in the APC, a party that is likely to settle for a northerner. According to them, it is better to support Jonathan, a southerner, than a northerner who may never include people of the region is scheme of things. However, on Okorocha’s card are choices of three parties: The Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA); the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) or the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
It woud be recalled that Okorocha led a part of APGA to merge with three other political parties that formed the APC last year. As it stands, members of APGA and PDP are reportedly not keen about having the governor back, because of the fear that he may use and dump them.
His best option appears to be the PPA, whose founder and former Abia governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has financial strength and still controls a number of loyalists that can re-engineer party structures to garner support for Okorocha’s re-election. a dailypost.ng extract.

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