Anambra polls: UPP doesn’t want nomadic politicians — Okorie By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—FORMER Presidential candidate of United Progressive Party, UPP, in the 2015 elections, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has said that UPP will not accommodate people he described as nomadic politicians, who jump from one political party to the other, saying such persons carry along with them political virus. Okorie, who is also the national chairman of UPP, debunked the rumour that he was recently quizzed by the Department of State Services, DSS, over his alleged involvement in Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biarfra, IPOB, agitations on independent Biafra republic. Speaking exclusively to Vanguard in Abuja, Okorie said it was laughable for one that founded and registered a political party in the country, to be canvassing for the division of the country even though he insisted that his party believed in self determination. He enthused that UPP was ready to take over governance in Anambra State in the forthcoming election, adding that already, all the major political parties like the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had been ruled out as a result of their nepotism and self inflicted internal crisis respectively. On the possibility of bringing political heavy weight with deep financial pockets to run the election on the platform of UPP, he said: “We are not looking for big men who will come and perhaps inject virus into a very genuine platform. Some of these people you called big men are infested with political viruses and we don’t go hunting for them and they can’t feel comfortable with the UPP environment, they can’t. “One thing you will know and that is what is common in the Nigeria type of democracy is that after every general election, people tend to migrate from parties that did not win election to parties that won election; if we ask them they will tell you it is in search for greener pastures. “So this nomadic political behaviour has become a culture, a way of life in Nigeria. Now you discover that when the general election ended, APC was in power, PDP people all surged into APC name them am talking about The post Anambra polls: UPP doesn’t want nomadic politicians — Okorie appeared first on Vanguard News. from Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2ubWERZ via Naijapounds

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA—FORMER Presidential candidate of United Progressive Party, UPP, in the 2015 elections, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has said that UPP will not accommodate people he described as nomadic politicians, who jump from one political party to the other, saying such persons carry along with them political virus.

Okorie, who is also the national chairman of UPP, debunked the rumour that he was recently quizzed by the Department of State Services, DSS, over his alleged involvement in Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biarfra, IPOB, agitations on independent Biafra republic.

Speaking exclusively to Vanguard  in Abuja, Okorie said it was laughable for one that founded and registered a political party in the country, to be canvassing for the division of the country even though he insisted that his party believed in self determination.

He enthused that UPP was ready to take over governance in Anambra State in the forthcoming election, adding that already, all the major political parties like the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had been ruled out as a result of their nepotism and self inflicted internal crisis respectively.

On the possibility of bringing political heavy weight with deep financial pockets to run the election on the platform of UPP, he said: “We are not looking for big men who will come and perhaps inject virus into a very genuine platform. Some of these people you called big men are infested with political viruses and we don’t go hunting for them and they can’t feel comfortable with the UPP environment, they can’t.

“One thing you will know and that is what is common in the Nigeria type of democracy is that after every general election, people tend to migrate from parties that did not win election to parties that won election; if we ask them they will tell you it is in search for greener pastures.

“So this nomadic political behaviour has become a culture, a way of life in Nigeria. Now you discover that when the general election ended, APC was in power, PDP people all surged into APC name them am talking about

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