GOVERNOR ROCHAS: A REAL POLITICIAN 1. When democracy was restored in 1999, Rochas Okorocha competed in the primaries to be Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governor of Imo State, but lost to Achike Udenwa. 2. He moved to the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and was an unsuccessful candidate for President on the ANPP platform in 2003. 3. He returned to the PDP, and President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him as Special Adviser on Inter-Party affairs. 4. Rochas Okorocha formed the Action Alliance (AA) party in 2005, planning to become a Presidential candidate for the AA in the 2007 elections. 5. He again returned to the PDP, and in September 2007 indicated that he was interested in becoming PDP National Chairman 6. After Governor Ikedi Ohakim decamped from the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) to the PDP in July 2009, Okorocha denied that Ohakim had taken over the PDP in the state, saying he was named as leader since he was governor, but a proper PDP congress should be held to decide on policy. 7. Okorocha decamped from the PDP to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to run as APGA candidate for Imo State Governor in the April 2011 national elections. 8. In 2013 decamped to the All Progressive Congress. 9. In 2014, he contested for the presidential candidate of APC and came second to the last, 10. Two days later, he retrieved the Governorship candidate from the guy who won in Imo State to become the flag bearer. The man who handed back the flag to him was the Imo State Commissioner for works who is also his son in law.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:26:41 +0000
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