Okorocha was forced to address the matter after his recent visit to Kano state for the first graduation ceremony of his college, Rochas Foundation College raised fresh controversy; The Guardian reports.
A statement issued by Okorocha’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, said that the event had nothing to do with a 2019 Presidential bid.
The statement read, ''It has come to the knowledge of the Imo state government that some people who are obviously cowed by Governor Rochas Okorocha’s progress and achievements both in politics and outside politics, are at the moment making effort to blackmail him using the graduation ceremony of the Rochas Foundation College, Kano, which held last weekend as their tool by giving distorting interpretations of that academic event to mean the governor’s campaign for the 2019 presidency. And they have sold that unfounded dummy to some media outfits.
''It is also worth stating that apart from the governor of Kano state Alhaji Umar Ganduje, and an elder statesman Alhaji Maitama Sule who were physically present at the ceremony, the governors of Sokoto and Niger states, former Governor of Jigawa state, Alhaji Saminu Turaki and the Deputy Governors of Gombe and Kano states were all in attendance.
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