LAWMAKERS GOT N100M EACH TO IMPEACH ME, SAYS OKOROCHA
Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has accused the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) of making attempts to remove him from office.
The governor said at the weekend at the inauguration of the state
executive of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Owerri that 26 out
of the 27 members of the state House of Assembly were brought to Abuja
and paid N100 million each to impeach him.
According to him, one of the lawmakers brought his booty to him Okorocha.
He said: “What have I done wrong in Imo that these people will be after me like this?
Haven’t I done everything that I promised to do for Imo people? PDP has
so annoyed me and they seem to have forgotten the kind of person I am.”
Okorocha expressed regrets that all the people that stole
public funds in Imo were now sheltered in PDP and had been ganging up
against him and the people.
He added that the gang-up against
him started from Oguta Local Government Area during the run-up to the
Oguta House of Assembly constituency re-run election where he said the
PDP candidate, Eugene Dibiagwu and some thugs blocked his convoy from
entering the community.
This, he said, was followed by an
assault from Senator Chris Anyanwu who rammed into his convoy at Azara
Egbelu near Owerri. “Yet, I didn’t react negatively as was expected
because that was a breach of protocol and security,” he stated.
The governor explained that despite his not losing his cool over the
attack on him, he was again attacked during the burial of the late
jurist, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa in Oguta.
“I paid N10 million
for the late jurist’s hospital bill and another N25 million for the
burial arrangements and additional N6 million to repair the state high
court premises in honour of Justice Oputa.
Then I moved with
the entire state executive council to pay my last respects to an
achiever. I went to the altar to speak as the number one citizen of the
state; the microphone was snatched away from me.
Which governor in Nigeria would have tolerated all these?
PDP has annoyed me and they have forgotten who I am.
“Having failed in their bid to bring me down at all cost, the PDP
started paying N5, 000 each to bus and tricycle drivers and people at
newspaper stands to castigate the APC as a Muslim and Boko Haram party
because I prevented them from bombing a church here.
APC we all know is neither a Muslim party nor a Boko Haram party,” he said.
Okorocha explained that he had achieved more in three years that he has
been in power than the 12 years of PDP put together. While charging the
newly-inaugurated party leaders to challenge the opposition with the
projects by his administration in all their communities across the
state, he donated 150 vehicles for the state and local government
officers of the party.
Efforts by New Telegraph to get the
Speaker, Chief Benjamin Uwjumogu, to react to the allegations against
the lawmakers were not successful as he failed to take calls put through
to his mobile phone. His Special Adviser (Media), Mr. Emeka Ahaneku,
also declined com-ment, saying:”I cannot comment on this, I am not a
house member.”
The House Majority Leader, Adaku Ihuoma, when
contacted, said she was overseas at the time and could not comment on
the allegation as she did not have details of the incident.
But
Chairman, House Committee on Information, Acho Ihim, said: “The
governor may not be wrong because he has his own unofficial sources of
information which I cannot question but what I can only speak about is
what has been officially presented on the floor of the assembly. And no
such thing or move has come to the floor of the house.
Though there may pockets of agitations here and there.”
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7/30/2014
LAWMAKERS GOT N100M EACH TO IMPEACH ME, SAYS OKOROCHA
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