The Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Governors Forum and Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has expressed serious reservations that his party “is not managing it’s victory very well”.
Governor Okorocha made his feelings known while fielding questions from news yesterday in Owerri.
“Make no mistake about it, All Progressives Congress is a good party, by all standards but my regret is that we are not managing our victory very well”, Okorocha lamented.
When asked to assess President Muhammadu Buhari’s one year in office, the APC Governors boss said he had no doubt that the man would succeed.
“I have no doubt in my mind that the old man (Buhari) will succeed. All I pleaded with Buhari to capture in the current fiscal year, are in the budget. I want to assure Ndigbo that all that are due to us will definitely get to us”, Governr Okorocha said.
Answering a question on the raging labour war against the new pump price of premium motor spirit, the Governor said he was in full support of the deregulation of the oil sector of the nation’s economy.
“I support the deregulation of the oil sector of the nation’s economy. I also believe in concessioning government parastatals and agencies. Nothing established by government has ever worked in Nigeria. The Nigeria Airways, NITEL, Nigerian National Shipping Line and all, never worked”, Okorocha said.
While using the opportunity to lampoon the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and it’s leadership at the national and state levels, the Governor however revealed that he has not seen an reliable person in the PDP to work with.
When reminded that Imo workers are owed salaries since February this year, the Governor said he was very comfortable with the 70:30 ratio agreement with labour, even as he warned that anytime workers refuse their salaries, he would use it to carry out projects.
“Both pension and internally generated revenue, IGR, are serious problems for me. Only recently, I ordered all the Board of Internal Revenue officers to go on leave but they have written to say it was unconstitutional to ask all officers to go on leave”, the Governor said.
