I’ll Succeed Buhari In 2023 – Okorocha

Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, says he will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

Okorocha said this on Monday when he hosted some political stakeholders at the state government house in Owerri.

The governor said Buhari’s declaration for a second term was a good development, adding that the President will win in 2019 as he did in 2015.

“Buhari will win again and again. After Buhari, the turn will come to south-east and it will be the turn of Okorocha,” he said.

Reacting to criticism of his endorsement of son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, as his successor, the governor said Nwosu is better qualified than any other governorship aspirant.

He said Nwosu’s only sin is that “he is my son-in-law”.

“Nwosu is the least of the political children I have trained but I don’t know any of them as much as I have known Nwosu,” Okorocha said.

“I took him up when he was just nobody and he grew to the height he is now, his only sin is that he is my son-in-law.

“Nwosu will win in 2019, don’t be afraid, I am there, I have retired the Arthur Nzeribes, the Udenwas, now I will retire the rest of them finally, I know them and they know me, their plan is to push me so that they can get the senate, it’s a lie, I will run for the senate as well.”