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Senator Rochas Okorocha, who represents Imo West in the National Assembly, has formally declared his intention to run for President.<\/p>\n
Okorocha said the country is experiencing a variety of difficulties that must be addressed during a press conference in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n
The former governor of Imo stated that he wants to create a \u201cnew Nigeria\u201d where poverty and security are addressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no other country that I can call my country apart from Nigeria. I speak to you today, my Bible tells me that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.<\/p>\n
Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPermit not to use a prepared speech because I want to pour my heart. I speak with you with a high spirit, because it despises little things that do not help mankind, it is called a noble spirit,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n Also Read:\u00a02023 Presidency: I\u2019ll Declare My Ambition In April, Says Ngige<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMy heart is filled with mixed feelings, one side is joyous and the other side bleeds. I ran from the presidency 20 years ago, I did not succeed. Six years later I tried and came second after Umaru Yar\u2019Adua and in 2015 I ran and our dear president, Muhammadu Buhari, emerged.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not in politics for what I can get, I am in politics for what I can give. I price honour more than life and glory more than wealth.<\/p>\n \u201cMy heart bleeds because of that boy in Maiduguri or Katsina that cannot go to school. I\u2019m not satisfied when poverty becomes the order of the day. Many countries have tagged us as the poverty capital of the world, I don\u2019t not agree.<\/p>\n \u201cThe truth is that we are a great nation and time will come when it will be made manifest. To the youths, If I become your president, I will handover to the next generation. I\u2019m not not-too-young-to-run and not too old to run, I\u2019m only 57.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have 14 million out-of-school children. I will declare free education, it is something I have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okorocha Senator Rochas Okorocha, who represents Imo West in the National Assembly, has formally declared his intention to run for President. Okorocha said the country is experiencing a variety of difficulties that must be addressed during a press conference in Abuja on Monday. The former governor of Imo stated that he wants to create a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}