Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday alleged political elites are ganging up against President Muhammadu Buhari because of his anti-corruption crusade.
He said the President has done nothing wrong other than the corrupt elites are not comfortable with his style of leadership, which has made it impossible for them to continue to loot the nation’s resources.
According to the Imo governor those fighting the President are afraid of the consequences of corruption.
The governor, in a statement by his Chief Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, noted Buhari believes that the wealth of the nation must be managed to benefit the masses.
The governor spoke at a meeting of Southeast APC Women and Youth Leaders for Buhari South-East at the Government House Owerri.
He said: “Nigerians must rise and support President Buhari because he has done well and stands by the truth and does not also believe in the primitive accumulation of wealth”.
In his words “having realised that our voting powers lie on the youths and women, we want to make them vital instruments for the pursuit of this expected victory for President Buhari come 2019. “And why the Igbos should and would support the person of Muhammadu Buhari and understand what the name Buhari actually means because there has been a lot of misrepresentations and misunderstanding of the person of Buhari.
“The political jobbers have tended to give him all types of interpretations but the truth remains that President Buhari is a good man, a leader and a man who stands by the truth and is not a man who believes in the primitive accumulation of wealth.
“In the election of 2015, the Igbo never gave him the support he deserved. We were the least in the six geo-political zones in the support for Buhari in 2015 and that has left a political vacuum for Ndi Igbo both locally and at the centre.
“So, we want to correct that story and change the narratives that Igbos do not hate Buhari but actually love him. Igbos this time around will support President Buhari”.
