Osita Okechukwu, has attacked the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, for pitting the Catholic Church against the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Osita Okechukwu
While speaking during an exclusive interview with Daily Sun, the Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, pleaded with Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha to stop pitting the Catholic Church against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and, by extension, President Muhammadu Buhari.
Okechukwu said he was pained to read a report credited to the governor where he allegedly dared, Archbishop Anthony Obinna, saying that the Catholic prelate cannot install an All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as governor in Imo State in 2019.
The APC chieftain urged the people of Imo State and Ndigbo worldwide not to take Okorocha as a “poster card” of APC.
He said: “What we lost in APC is because of him. He is a man who doesn’t believe in himself and he tells himself lies.
“My worry is that Okorocha should separate religion from politics. I remember vividly how he took President Buhari and all of us before the 2015 election to Archbishop Obinna, who welcomed Buhari wholeheartedly.
"In fact, when we finished the preamble, we were not privileged to go into the inner reserve where the archbishop took Buhari and APC leadership to.
“As a member, I was not privileged to be in that inner circle, but from my calculation, it showed acceptance and support from an archbishop of a big diocese like Owerri Archdiocese, one of the biggest archdioceses in the Catholic kingdom all over the world.
“So, Governor Okorocha should please stop pitting the great Catholic Church against the APC and, by extension, President Buhari."
Okechukwu said only Imo people, especially those with permanent voters’ card (PVC) that are qualified to decide whether Okorocha, as governor of Imo State, has done well or not.