{"id":737607,"date":"2019-11-04T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/04\/no-such-thing-as-igbo-presidency-okorocha\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T16:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:00:40","slug":"no-such-thing-as-igbo-presidency-okorocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/04\/no-such-thing-as-igbo-presidency-okorocha\/","title":{"rendered":"No Such Thing As Igbo Presidency: Okorocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_702684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-702684\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-702684 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/okorocha-600x611.jpeg\" alt=\"Rochas Okorocha\" width=\"600\" height=\"611\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-702684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rochas Okorocha, a former Imo State governor, and senator representing Imo West, has said there is no such thing as Igbo presidency in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said this while speaking during the weekend in Kano.<\/p>\n<p>According to Okorocha, what is obtainable is Nigerian presidency or Nigerian president.<\/p>\n<p>His words, \u201cI don\u2019t think there is anything called Igbo presidency in Nigeria. We don\u2019t have any such nomenclature as Igbo presidency, what we have is Nigerian presidency or Nigerian president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Imo Monarchs Back INEC\u2019s Appeal Against Okorocha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you may be asking will be what you make of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction, and if that\u2019s the question, then absolutely democracy is about the people and the South East is not on its own, it is part and parcel of this country and it is possible as with other states and other ethnic groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe South East is not on its own, it is part and parcel of this country and there is nothing in anyone contesting for the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha Rochas Okorocha, a former Imo State governor, and senator representing Imo West, has said there is no such thing as Igbo presidency in Nigeria. The lawmaker said this while speaking during the weekend in Kano. According to Okorocha, what is obtainable is Nigerian presidency or Nigerian president. His words, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Such Thing As Igbo Presidency: Okorocha - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/04\/no-such-thing-as-igbo-presidency-okorocha\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No Such Thing As Igbo Presidency: Okorocha - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha Rochas Okorocha, a former Imo State governor, and senator representing Imo West, has said there is no such thing as Igbo presidency in Nigeria. 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