Buhari's name was a badluck for me in South East, says Okorocha

Senator Rochas Okorocha 

Senator representing Imo West District in the National Assembly, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, may vanished as a political party in 2023 when President Muhammadu Buhari leaves office.

The Senator stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday.

He lamented that despite the sacrifices he has made to expand the membership base of the APC in the South-East, the reward he received was evil.



He also said that the name Buhari had negative effects on his campaign for second term in Imo State.

He said, “I have never thought of leaving the party but what happens next will be determined by time.

“My only worry is that the party may disappear with the exit of President Buhari if the ongoing injustices are not addressed.




“Unlike other governors from the North that rode on the name Muhammadu Buhari to power, the name Buhari had a negative effect on my campaign for second term.

“But I was determined to overcome that because I knew what we stood to gain.

“If anything, the party repaid me evil for good. There was no challenge I did not face or bad name I was not called in my state.


“They brought in people who fought me when I was building the party at state level to fight me over the control of the party. I don’t want to talk about it but my party did not treat me well.”