By orji sampson
As Imolites prepare for this Saturday supplementary election for the post of Governor and some of the State House of Assembly seats, Gov Rochas Okorocha has continued to gain more support from notable citizens in the state.
Evang Mike Ikoku, owner of All Season’s Hotel who also contested for the Isu/Njaba/Nkwere/Nwangele Federal Constituency Seat under the Accord party has declared that Gov Okorocha should not be begging for the votes of Imolites ahead of the guber re-run which is slated to hold in about 250 polling units of 23LGA’s, insisting that rather, the people of Imo state should be the one’s begging Owelle Ndi Igbo to continue his massive and people oriented work he has been doing since the past three and half years.
Speaking to Trumpeta recently in his Owerri residence, the Nkwerre born business mogul asserted that Okorocha remains the only link between the over 150 million Igbo’s in Nigeria and in diaspora and the national government of Nigerian arguing that the singular interest of Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha can not be allowed to jeopardise the collective interest of the Igbo race of consolidating the already gained partnership of Okorocha in APC with the North.
Continuing, Ikoku also pointed out that the antecedents of Gov Okorocha with the gigantic infrastructures and policies his Rescue Mission govt has brought to the state no doubt stands him out as the true Senior Advocate of the Masses (SAM) and Commander of Free Education (CFE).
He likened Okorocha to the great Nostradamus who saw the future and urged Igbo’s to join the APC train, even when everybody including the Yoruba’s didn’t believe in the emerging mega party.
According to Ikoku, Okorocha is and will continue to be more acceptable to the Northern Leaders of APC which he noted will help to position Imo state and the Igbo race at large in the share of the national cake urging Imolites to troop out en-mass in this Saturday guber re-run and vote massively once again for the Martin Luther King Jr of Igbo nation.
In a related development, Evang Ikoku has also hinted that his campaign organization has challenged the result of the Isu/Njaba/Nkwere/Nwangele Federal Constituency election in the law court insisting that he (Ikoku) and not Hon Jones Onyeriri of the PDP won the April 11, election.
