Oshiomhole Came To Imo State To Insult Me Instead Of Selling APC Candidate To Imo People – Rochas
The
Govenor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha yesterday said that the national
chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole came to Imo
state to rain insults on him rather than sell his candidate to the
people of Imo State.
Okorocha stated this through a release to newsmen in Owerri by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo.
Oshiomhole
visited Imo state last week for the campaign flag-off ceremony of Imo
APC governorship candidate, Senator Hope Uzodimma, where he accused
Okorocha of anti-party activities among other allegations.
According to Okorocha in a statement, “We won’t allow Oshiomhole to eat his cake and still have it. And we start this way:
“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 and let Nigerians judge 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 noise maker.
“Oshiomhole
has been talking and working to fulfill his own part of whatever deal
he has with Chief Hope Uzodinma. He is acting his own part and in doing
that, has thrown caution to the wind.”
Okorocha said that he
expected,” that the chairman of a party who came for the campaign of a
governorship candidate of his party would have used the opportunity
offered by the event to market the candidate. But in this case,
Oshiomhole talked about Governor Okorocha and carefully skipped talking
about the candidate because he knows where the problem lies with the
candidate.
“All the media reports on what Oshiomhole said at the
rally were all about Okorocha. He consciously avoided telling Imo people
why they should opt for Uzodinma at the poll in 2019 or why he chose
him as the guber candidate of the party in the state.”
On one of
the troubling issues raised by Oshiomhole which bordered on payment of
workers salaries in the state, Okorocha said that “information has long
been in the public domain that Governor Okorocha paid the December 2018
salary in November 2018 and has also given each of the workers N10,000
as Christmas bonus.”
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