Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, at the weekend declared that the fate of Uche Nwosu, his son-in-law, as regards his governorship ambition was not in anybody’s hands.
He was reacting to the submission of Hope Uzodinma’s name by the party to INEC as its governorship candidate in the state.
Okorocha maintained that it was only God and the Imo people who would determine Nwosu’s fate in the coming election.
He said that going by Oshiomhole’s actions and utterances, the APC helmsman was behind, what he termed as the film Ahmed Gulak acted in Owerri as the leader of the 12-member committee sent to conduct the party’s governorship primary in the state.
Okorocha said: “It is unfortunate that the national chairman could encourage Gulak to flee Owerri by 4.30 am to avoid carrying out the assignment he was sent to Owerri to do.”
The governor, who spoke through a statement issued by Sam Onwuemeodo, his Chief Press Secretary, said that Oshiomhole’s action indicated that disbanding Gulak’s committee, cancelling all that emanated from the primary and setting up the Brigadier-General Ibrahim Agbabiaka Committee for the conduct of fresh primaries in the state were all deceitful.
“Also, ignoring the report of the Professor Osunbor’s Appeal Panel that declared Uche Nwosu, the candidate of the APC in the state, was an indication that the Comrade had, ab nitio, made up his mind on Hope Uzodinma,” Okorocha said, stressing that steps would be taken to prove that deceits do not pay.
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He said further: “We would not allow these deceits to go like that without having them challenged.”
He argued that if Oshiomhole had monitored Owerri since he announced Chief Uzodinma as his preferred candidate, he would have appreciated the enormous implication of what he termed a faulty action.
“Comrade Oshiomhole in his efforts to justify all he has done had accused Governor Rochas of trying to build a political dynasty. And the only reason he gave for coming up with such blackmail is that Governor Okorocha wants to go to the Senate and his in-law Uche Nwosu wants to be governor.
“He never explained how Okorocha being in the Senate and Nwosu being governor would constitute a dynasty.
“Governor Okorocha is not the only governor who would want to be in the Senate after leaving office. A good number of the ex-governors are either in the Senate or had been in the Senate.
“He is not also the first governor to have a successor at the end of his tenure.”
