Rochas Okorocha Appears Before Screening Committee (Video)

Embattled presidential aspirant, Rochas Okorocha has appeared before the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun led Presidential Screening Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC.

Recall that the former Imo state governor was apprehended by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission for violating his bail conditions and risked missing his screening.

He is being tried on a 17-count charge of fraud to the tune of N2.9 billion filed against him by the EFCC.

He is accused of conspiring with others, including a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and five companies to steal from public coffers.

However, a federal High Court sitting in Abuja later granted him bail to the tune of N500million with one surety in like sum.

Meanwhile, the Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari would pick his successor from the Southern part of the country.

Okechukwu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), stated this in an interview with Arise Television on Wednesday.

Naija News reports that Buhari had appealed to the APC Governors to allow him to pick his preferred successor ahead of the party’s presidential primaries on June 6.

Buhari made the appeal during a meeting with the governors and the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. Read more