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Okorocha, Governor of Imo State has warned Igbo leaders to be careful before
adopting a candidate for the 2019 presidential election.
This is
coming barely 24 hours after leaders from eastern part of Nigeria declared
their support for the candidature of Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the
Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the 2019 presidential election.
In a
statement on Thursday, issued by Sam Onwemeodo, Okorocha’s chief press
secretary, the Governor advised the leaders to apply wisdom and thread with caution
ahead of 2019 election.
The
statement read: “On the adoption of a presidential candidate by Igbo leaders
and their playing partisan politics, my advice is that Igbo leaders should toe
the path of wisdom and should not come again adopting a candidate.
“Mine is an
advice that the Igbos should be careful not to play the same type of very bad
politics we played in the past which most of the times, kept us in political
wilderness.
“As a
people, we must be wise now and never foreclose the possibility of any
presidential candidate becoming the president tomorrow.”
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