Uzodinma Attacks Me With Armed Thugs —Okorocha

Posted by Nwa Diokpa Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State Sunday, February 21st, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, has alleged that the Present Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, attacked him with “more than 1000 thugs”.

Okorocha and three of his political associates were on Sunday arrested by the state police command after some of his supporters stormed the Royal Spring Palm Estate, Owerri and unsealed it.

According to reports, the Estate was connected to his wife, Nkechi Okorocha.

The Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Physical Planning in Imo State, Enyinnaya Onuegbu, had on Friday supervised the sealing of the Estate.

Reacting, Okorocha’s spokesperson, Sam Onwuemeodo, in a statement issued on Sunday, alleged that the governor’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Chinasa Nwanari, made use of thugs to destroy vehicles in Okorocha’s convoy.

The statement reads: “More than 1000 thugs, armed to teeth with knives and guns and led by Chinasa Nwaneri, Governor Hope Uzodinma’s Special Adviser on Special Duties today, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, with the backing of armed policemen from Government House, attacked the former governor of the State and Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Senator Rochas Okorocha’s Convoy.

“They attacked and damaged all the Vehicles in his Convoy. They also attacked his personal aides.

“Senator Okorocha was with only his personal aides when the thugs unleashed the attack.

“This is the information we can give as of now. We are still watching events as they unfold.

“Okorocha has the strongest political structure in the state and teaming followers in the State. If he had expected the attack, he would not have moved with his personal aides alone.

“Okorocha has never been a violent man. This planned attack but unprovoked and unwarranted has opened a new, but ugly chapter in the politics of the State. We shall react fully to the situation.”