OWERRI—Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday called on Nigerians of goodwill to work and pray together for the oneness of the country to prove those who had predicted the division of the country in 2015 wrong.

*Okorocha

The governor in his New Year’s Message said the Almighty God never made the country one to divide it later.

Governor Okorocha said Nigeria would become stronger and more united in 2015 and beyond, and that whatever bitter experience the country was having now, was one of the indices of all the developing nations of the world.

He urged the elites to help the country by avoiding actions and utterances that would promote disunity instead of unity and hatred in lieu of love.

According to the governor, the problem of the country was the self-centeredness of the elite and not the common people on the street, because Nigerians had no problem living together.

He appealed to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to use 2015 election to prove to the world that the country’s democracy had prospect of becoming one of the advanced and exemplary democracies in the world.

And for Imo people, the governor assured them that the new year would be more prosperous and more promising than 2014.

Okorocha prayed God to grant Imo citizens their heart desires in the New Year.