Rochas Okorocha: Nigeria Needs a Businessman as President

Former Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has never hidden his desire to rule Nigeria as president.

His first attempt at the presidency was in 2003 after he decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party to the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, and ran for the party’s presidential nomination but a disappointing turn of events in the primary ended his ambition.

Undeterred by that experience, which saw the ANPP make then aspirant, retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari its presidential candidate in the 2003 election, Okorocha formed the Action Alliance in 2005 with the intention of becoming the presidential candidate of the new political party in 2007.

However, he jettisoned his ambition and returned to the PDP where he tried to become the national chairman of the then ruling party.

He was later to dump the PDP for the second time to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, on whose platform he became the Imo State governor in 2011.

But his stay in APGA was short-lived as he left the party in 2013 for the All Progressives Congress where he rekindled his presidential ambition.

Okorocha, still a member of the APC against the backdrop of the 2023 elections, declares his interest to contest for the presidency. in an interview with ARISE Okorocha says, Nigeria needs a proven businessman with track records to back their achievements in order to alienate poverty and enhance the economy.

 

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