OWERRI – Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha on Tuesday contended that the 2019 gubernatorial ambition of Senator Hope Uzodinma was a veiled plot to evade criminal charges as he would enjoy immunity as a governor and escape from the criminal trails he is facing at the moment.
Okorocha blamed Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for his insistence on Uzodinma as the governorship candidate of the party in the state, stressing that the travails of the senator had happened years before now and had nothing to do with him as the sitting governor of the state.
He said, “Chief Uzodinma is desperate to govern Imo State through the assistance of men like Adams Oshiomhole to evade the criminal trails he is already facing. His idea is that once he becomes governor, he would be leveraging on the immunity provision, to evade these trials.”
A statement by Sam Onwuemeodo, his Chief Press Secretary, argued that under normal circumstances “Chief Uzodinma would have announced his withdrawal from the governorship race over charges of issuance of dud cheque and alleged breach of contract to the tune of 12. 5 million dollars.
“This is the man Oshiomhole wants to govern Imo people. If Oshiomhole had asked question and if he were to be keen in APC’s victory in Imo, he would not have gone into any deal with Chief Uzodinma,” he stated.
The governor accused Uzodinma of being ignorant of the damage his trials had done to him, Imo and APC as a party especially in a situation where the APC government under President Muhammadu Buhari had carved out a niche for itself over the war against corruption.
“No doubt Imo APC would be doing itself a disservice if it allows Chief Uzodinma to be its flag bearer in 2019 governorship election. Imo people do not treat such issues with kid glove and that was why they declared war against 419 fraudsters in 1996.
“Chief Uzodinma should be advised to withdraw from the governorship race and also quit politics to enable him face these trials and he can come back to politics if at the end of the trials he is not found guilty in any of them. The reason being that image or character is an important ingredient in the politics of any individual. He should take the bold step,” he said.
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Source: Daily Independent
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