Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has replied the comments made by his Imo State counterpart, Rochas Okorocha against the political elite of Anambra State, who he said were undermining the progress of the Igbo nation in the country’s political power equation.
Consequently, he described him “as a rabble rouser, ingrate and an arrogant man, who has no respect for senior citizens.”
Okorocha had said this in an interview with a national daily recently.
But reacting to the interview yesterday, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Obi, Mr. Mike Udah, said: “Okorocha’s utterances as a sheer smack of arrogance. He said in a statement made available to THIS DAY that they emanated from an over-ambitious rabble rouser, who easily gets carried away any moment he handled a microphone.”
The Imo State governor, he said, was desperate to become the next Igbo president or Vice-President of Nigeria, which was why he alleged that “he (Okorocha) abandoned the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) through which he recorded his first electoral victory since he started jumping from pillar to post over the past several years.”
The CPS also noted that Okorocha’s desperation did not allow him realise that he was made by Obi and Chief Victor Umeh, who were both chieftains of APGA.
He described as laughable and unfathomable, that a man could bite the finger that fed him without qualms, stressing that such an attitude could only come from Okorocha, who betrayed Chief Martin Agbaso, on whose back he rode to the state Government House by impeaching his younger brother and former Deputy Governor, Mr. Jude Agbaso.
Udah also said Okorocha’s victims were legion and include the Church, mothers and children and so many others upon whom his Abortion Bill would have dealt a crushing blow.
“Okorocha has no moral ground to talk about unity among Ndigbo. Is he united with Senator Chris Anyanwu, whose convoy he had attacked more than once? Is he united with Hon. Emeka Ihedioha who, with a whiff of recklessness, he advised to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) simply because he was already jittery the Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives would chase him away from Douglas House, Owerri, come 2015?
“The Imo State Governor should simply shut up his mouth, for given his antecedents; he is not supposed to attack such statesmen as the former Vice-President of this country, Dr. Alex Ekwueme and former Governor and former Minister Jim Nwobodo,” Udah said.
The CPS, however, said it was contradictory for Okorocha to claim that Ekwueme and Nwobodo were the obstacles to the realisation of Igbo presidency, when it was Obi and Umeh, who railroaded him to the Government House, Owerri in 2011, saying “those who live in glass houses should not meddle with stones.”
Source: Thisday
