2015: CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL VOTE OUT OKOROCHA IF … –PRIEST

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Catholic priest in Ahiara Diocese of Imo State, Rev. Fr. Patrick Ogu, yesterday
in Owerri, said the Catholic Church will not hesitate to vote out Governor
Rochas Okorocha in 2015, if he fails to deliver on his campaign promises to the
people.

Ogu said this just as he criticised the Abia State governor,
Theodore Orji, for witch-hunting the former governor of the state, Orji Uzor
Kalu.

The cleric, who spoke with journalists in Umuhu Eyiogugu
community in Owerri North Local Government Area of the state, said that Chief
Ikedi Ohakim fell out of favour with the people as a result of his
anti-populist policies that enthroned corruption, insecurity and executive
recklessness and that the church moved in to save the people from his misrule.

Ogu said the Catholic Church would carry out the same revolt if
the current governor fails to develop the rural communities in the state as he
had promised during his campaign days.

He noted that the strength of the church in deciding who rules
the state was proved during the 2011 general election when it mobilised and
frustrated the second term bid of Chief Ohakim to prove that power resides with
the people.

It will be recalled that a Catholic priest, Rev Fr. Eustace
Okorie, was allegedly beaten up by Ohakim’s security aides in Owerri, the Imo
State capital then, a situation that led to a revolt by the church and the
entire Christian community in the state to vote the former governor out of
office.

Source:
National Mirror