APGA is not a Political Party, it is a Regional Association for Ndigbo in Politics – Okorocha

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has described the
All Progressives Grand Alliance as a regional association
of Ndigbo in politics because it is “not a political party.”
In an interview with The Sun , Okorocha said “APGA is not
a political party, it’s a regional association for Ndigbo in
politics. I am not condemning APGA but APGA cannot
give to us what we need nationally and locally and I saw
that coming.
Okorocha who also explained why he joined APGA said “I
wouldn’t have been in APGA if PDP had given me a
ticket. All my efforts to become governor, to become
Senator, to become president in the PDP were not
satiated and not that I was never qualified. Even when I
won the election they denied me. I could have been a
governor since 1979 but it was denied me.
“I could have been a senator, but they denied me. I ran
for president, I came second but they wouldn’t even
consider me for vice president. So, I left PDP because of
injustice and when I came into APGA, I thought APGA
was a platform on which to win that particular election,
but I did make it clear to them that APGA is not a
national party and we cannot still remain in our myopic
world thinking that we can do it alone without others.
“It’s not a good image for Ndigbo and when I saw that
the Yoruba who were running the ACN who even had five
states went for a national party, then what was I waiting
for? It’s better to own a 10% equity in a billion Naira
business than to be a 100% owner of a N5,000
business. All of them are MDs but one MD is as useless
as nothing. So, that was my point and you see today, it
has paid off. If I had not decamped to APC and this
election had taken place, the Igbo would have no identity
at all in Nigeria. Can you imagine that?”