Okorocha believes his only obstacle to becoming President are his people, the Igbos.

Addressing journalists at the Government House, Owerri, Okorocha claimed he enjoys more goodwill up north than he does back home.

“The Igbo do not know how to honour their own. They rather like to run down any of their rising leaders. The pull-him-down syndrome is high in Igboland. And it is very unfortunate.

“Anytime I come out to run for the Presidency of this country, I will not suffer pull-him-down from the North or from the South-West or South South, it is only in Igboland that I will suffer it,” Okorocha said.

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‘Igbo do not value their own’

The governor alleged that the Igbo people do not value their own.

“And they engage in this pull-him-down practice without knowing the overall implications on the Igbo. So, it will be out of place for an Igbo presidential aspirant at any given period to think that the Igbo will make him President because the Igbo do not value their own. They don’t value what they have, but value outsiders. It is in their character. It is in their nature.

“Read the newspapers and go to the social media, all the insults and attacks you get are all from the Igbo. They go to any length to run you down without caring about your good intentions and all the efforts being made to see that things work out fine for the people of the area.

“It is a problem. It didn’t start today. Go down the memory lane, you discover that the pull-him-down syndrome in Igboland didn’t start today,” he added.

Okorocha was a presidential aspirant under the defunct All Peoples Party (APP) in 2003.