Immediate past governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has accused his successor, Emeka Ihedioha of being arrogant, anti-masses and mismanaging over ₦48 billion he left behind barely three months in office. In this interview with STANLEY UZOARU, he also spoke on the alleged attacks on his family and government properties recovered from his wife as well as daughter’s shops. He also attacked his party, the APC for lying against him before President Buhari during the last general elections.
What do you think about the idea of a panel set up by the Imo State government to probe you?
It’s politically motivated and witch-hunting. How can you expect a PDP member to head such panel, what kind of justice would you get? Everybody knows that Eze Duruiheoma (SAN) was a former chairman of PDP and from his utterances in the past you will know that they have been sent to do a hatchet job; how can you have retired Justice Eudora Igwe who was the wife of an SSG in the state, another PDP chieftain who has been angry? Definitely, you shouldn’t expect justice from this, and they said that Igwe has given more than 100 orders just to fight my government and any of my cases that goes to court can never receive justice; same person is going to chair a panel on land, so you can see that there’s a setup but if they can do the right thing, people who will be unbiased to probe my activities, that’s fine, but I wish they would bring people from the time of Ohakim. It’s just a gimmick. My advice for the government is to remain focused rather than fighting left, right and centre.
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As a former governor of the state, can you say the present administration can be focused?
Well, what I think is that right now, Emeka Ihedioha-led administration is diversionary, using intimidation, harassment and probe allegations to attract public sympathy for the fear of likely rerun because in the first place, Emeka Ihedioha did not win this election and he knows both in terms of number or spread; wining over 140,000 votes just from three local governments out of about 200,000 votes goes to show that he did not win that election.