I want to unite S-East govs --Okorocha

OWERRI--Governor of Imo State and the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governors' Forum, Chief Rochas Okorocha, says his very best desire is to unite the governors and leaders of the South East to work with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government.

Chief Okorocha made his feelings known, yesterday, while dealing with newsmen at the Sam Mbakwe International (things carried by a ship, etc.) Airport, SMICA, Owerri, on his (the act of reaching a destination) from Abuja.

"As the only APC governor in the South East, I cannot do it alone and I cannot also play the associated politics of beginning and building on a very strong relationship between the South East governors and the APC-led Federal Government alone. Hence, every governor and leader in the South East must be carried along in the whole thing," Okorocha said.

Answering a question, the governor also explained that while in Abuja, the South East governors were able to meet with Mr. President, adding that it was more than even calming that the South East people would work totally with the present management at the federal level.

"We, the governors of the South East and in fact, the leaders from the area, are all decided to work with the President and the President himself is also more decided to work with the South East," Okorocha said.

It was his carefully thought out opinion that all the imaginary worries about what comes to the South East is not completely and totally necessary now, adding that the governors had been able to establish a very friendly relationship with Mr. President.

"We have been promised to/certain that the South East would not be left out of the whole political and money-based equations of Nigeria," Okorocha said.