– Okorocha attacks Ohakim over remarks that he is too old to contest for governorship election
– Ohakim says he would have defeated Okorocha in 2014 if PDP hadn’t rigged him out in the primary election Chief Ikedi Ohakim, a former governor of Imo state says he hopes to make a return to Imo Douglas House in 2019.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen, Ohakim, 58, described incumbent governor Rochas Okorocha as a comedian following the governor’s remark that anyone above the age of 50 should not be allowed to contest the governorship election, because they are over aged. According to Ohakim, Okorocha is a very good M.C. that has no respect for the constitution, The Sun reports
According to Ohakim, Okorocha is a very good M.C. that has no respect for the constitution, The Sun reports.
Ohakim said: “Don’t you know that Rochas Okorocha is a comedian? He is very good as a master of ceremony. He is a very good M.C. and a very lawless man. Does he have respect for the constitution? You should ask me about what the constitution says about the criteria to vie for the governorship election and not what an M.C said. Look at how Rochas Okorocha has destroyed Owerri Zone. Look at how he disgraced Sir Jude Ejiogu out of office. Look at how he messed up with the Agbaso family. He does not know how the flyovers look like. Do you know that the flyovers are five; he has destroyed Owerri zone. Lands in Owerri now have no values “PDP failed at the election because the primary election was not free and fair. Impunity reigned supreme. Emeka Ihedioha and Ifeanyi Araraume rigged the election against me. They imported people from Ihiala in Anambra state to rig me out. I won the election, but was denied the ticket. Do you know that a prominent Imo traditional ruler led a delegation to me, urging me to run a joint ticket with my political son, Emeka Ihedioha, but Ihedioha refused? The idea was for me to round off my tenure and start positioning him after two years to take over from me. He thought he would have his way through. Do you know that the PDP candidate for the 2015 governorship election did not even win Owerri Zone? He won only in six local government areas, out of the 27 local government councils in the state. What it means is that he did not even win Owerri Zone where he comes from
“I am launching a book very soon, where I will x-ray the people who have destroyed Imo. I can forgive people. I fight for justice. I do not fight individuals. Impunity will destroy our party, PDP. There was no due process in constituting the 419 caretaker committee. Let me tell you that there is no difference between Imo PDP and any other small political party in the state, the same impunity and injustice which destroyed PDP at the general elections in the state are re-surfacing that you would constitute a caretaker committee and you would not consult the leaders of the party and you think that you will succeed? You think you would win election with it? I would have defeated Rochas Okorocha without PDP ticket. If I had used the over N2billion I spent in PDP primary election which Ihedioha and Araraume rigged in flying the flag of another political party in the state, no matter how small it is, I would have defeated Okorocha.”
On charges by the EFCC over alleged money laundering while governor of Imo state, Ohakim said: “Look, what I am going through is persecution and not prosecution; the whole thing is politically motivated. It is politically induced and manipulated. It is a political vendetta. Politicians from Imo State who want me out of the political scene before 2019 are behind my EFCC ordeal. They want me out of the political space before 2019. Their names are in the open. Yes, it is politically motivated. They wrote the petitions and it is to get Ikedi Ohakim out of the political space before the next general elections.”
Full interview on THE SUN
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