2015: Okorocha formally declares for second term in Imo

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on Monday in Owerri officially declared his intention to run for the 2015 governorship election in the state on the platform of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
At a massively attended ceremony at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, Governor Okorocha, who also made attempt at the presidency, said he was coming back to finish up his constitutionally approved second term, to empower Imolites (Imo people), take the state to greater heights by 2019.
The event was used as multiple-pronged occasion for the APC to campaign for presidential ambition of Mohammadu Buhari (who was physically present), governorship (for Okorocha), senatorial, House of Representatives, and state House of Assembly.
Governor Okorocha’s campaign organisation had done much work by mobilising Imo men, women, youths and different organisations, who thronged the venue in different branded campaign buses, lorries, thereby making much of the major streets in Owerri impassable.
While Buhari used the campaign rally to declare his desire to build a strong Nigerian economy, with jobs for teeming youths, Okorocha assured that his second term would usher in jobs, empowerment and wide industrialisation of the state.
Already, as part of strategic measures to re-engineer the structures of the APC in Imo State into winning ways in the 2015 elections, the governor had late last year shared out cars, buses and jeeps to executive members of the party at wards, local government and state levels.
The cars range from Toyota Sienna, other categories of cars and SUV’s, all branded with the APC logo and Okorocha’s pictures and with the inscription “Rochas We Know 2015.”
He has, therefore, charged his lieutenants to permeate the lengths and breadth of the state, especially the grassroots, to garner support for him.