-HE SHOULD FACE HIS TWO CRIMINAL CHARGES OVER ISSUANCE OF DUD CHEQUE &
NON-DECLARATION OF ASSETS
-AGAIN, CHIEF UZODINMA IS NOT A KNOWN MEMBER OF IMO APC
Even when we have not said or written anything about Chief Hope
Uzodinma since the controversy over the governorship ticket of All
Progressives Congress, APC, for the State began, he took up the
Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha in the media, claiming that the
governor “underestimates his unpopularity”, among other insulting
remarks. And we swiftly want to say interalia:
(1.) We won’t honour Chief Hope Uzodinma with response because
even when politics today seems to be all comers affair people should
be humble enough to know their superiors in certain areas of life.
(2.) Chief Uzodinma should face his two most recently criminal
charges over the issuance of Dud Cheque and non-declaration of assets.
We won’t talk about other similar cases.
(3.) Chief Hope Uzodinma is not a member of APC in Imo State.
His purported membership of the Party was announced in Abuja. He has
never attended any APC meeting either in his ward or in his Local
Government, Oru-East or at the State level. And that is why no APC
member in the State was excited when the Party’s National Chairman,
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole announced him as his preferred governorship
Candidate of the Party in the State.
(4.) APC members in Imo see Chief Uzodinma as still a staunch
member of PDP and that was the reason behind the dead silence in Imo
over the announcement of his name as the governorship Candidate of the
party. If Chief Uzodinma was to be a known member of the Party, there
would have been celebration in Imo. The Chieftains of the Party in
Abuja backing him are elite Politicians who have no relationship with
the grassroots.
(5.) Governor Rochas Okorocha won his election in 2011 on the
platform of APGA through the ballot box. Ditto, in 2015 on the ticket
of APC. And in the two cases, the parties were not in Power at the
Federal level. So, he did not enjoy any Federal might. Imo people
voted for him for whom he is. And the love is still intact. In 2011,
he defeated an incumbent governor of PDP extraction and in 2015 he
also defeated a sitting Deputy-Speaker of the House of Representatives
also of the PDP stock. How else do you measure popularity?
(6.) In the case of Chief Uzodinma, the story is totally
different. In 2011, he took the Senate Seat for Orlu zone from Chief
Osita Izunaso through the Court. In 2015, Nigerians knew what
transpired in Imo. The State was invaded with armed Security Personnel
by the PDP leaders like Chief Uzodinma and the rest is history. So
Chief Uzodinma can never win election in Imo in a fee and fair
election. And that is why the PDP and APGA members are those
celebrating his K – leg governorship Candidature for Imo APC.
(7.) Since Chief Uzodinma has begun to throw stone not
considering the fact that he lives in a badly constructed glass house
we challenge him to publish his profile for the public to see and let
Rochas also publish his own. Rochas Okorocha was born in Ogboko and he
grew up in Jos. He attended St. Joseph Primary School, Barkin Ladi
Jos, and Juladaco High School Jos. He has LLB and LLM of the
University of Jos, Post – Graduate Diploma in Management, of the Benue
State University.
(8.) By 1984 Rochas Okorocha had opened Kings Commercial
College Jos. In 1996, he founded the Rochas Foundation Inc and Rochas
Foundation Colleges. He founded the Rochas Group of Companies with
interest in Real Estate, Aviation, Banking, Hotels, Construction,
Commerce and so on.
(9.) Rochas Okorocha has investments and Commercial
buildings in Imo before becoming governor. He has two Rochas
Foundation Colleges, one in Owerri and one in Ogboko. Has a Printing
Press, and a Hotel. Has some of the biggest Commercial buildings in
Owerri, and all before becoming governor. Let Chief Uzodinma mention
any building he owns in Owerri or any investment he has in any part of
the State no matter how small, then we take off from there.
(10.) Those who write these things for people like Chief
Uzodinma should always count their teeth with their tongues before
taking up other people in the media. You do not do such thing knowing
the deficiencies of the man you are writing for. A reasonable someone
who lives in a glass house does not throw stone at all, and not to
talk of doing so indiscriminately.