Governor Rochas Okorocha
The Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has described the
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams
Oshiomhole, as a noisemaker.
Oshiomhole had on Saturday said the APC would report to the
Independent National Electoral Commission, governors and candidates
who were distorting messages about the party.
He had also berated some governors for failing to pay workers’
salaries.
Although Okorocha and Amosun are in the APC, their preferred
governorship candidates are contesting on the platform of different
parties, which have adopted President Muhammadu Buhari as their
presidential candidate.
Responding to the APC national chairman, Okorocha said
Oshiomhole as a former governor of Edo State owed civil servants
seven months salary arrears by the time he left office.
He said the APC national chairman lacked the moral right to
contribute to issues concerning payment of civil servants’
salaries.
Okorocha said instead for Oshiomhole to campaign for the ruling
party during a rally in Owerri, he was busy abusing
him((Okorocha).
The Imo State governor, in a press statement issued in Owerri on
Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, said
Oshiomhole was angry because his preferred APC governorship
candidate, Hope Uzodinma, did not have the clout to win the state
for the ruling party.
Okorocha challenged Oshiomhole to publish his scorecard as Edo
State governor for eight years while he (Okorocha) would publish
his achievements as the Imo State governor.
The statement read, “The National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, was in Owerri on
Friday, December 21, 2018 for the campaign of Chief Hope Uzodinma,
his preferred governorship candidate for the party, and he insulted
and told petty lies against Governor Rochas Okorocha.
“Adams Oshiomhole was governor in Edo State for eight years.
Rochas Okorocha has been governor in Imo for less than eight years.
We challenge Oshiomhole to publish his achievements in Edo State
for the eight years he was governor and let Rochas publish his own
achievements in Imo in less than eight years.
“Let Nigerians judge between the two who failed as governor. If
Oshiomhole fails to accept this challenge, we won’t have any other
option than to conclude that he is just a noisemaker.”
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