Breaking: We Will Not Recognise Uzodinma As Imo Governor – Onyeagocha

By Gideon Njoku

The immediate past Secretary to the Government of Imo State, SGI, Uche Onyeagocha, a Lawyer, says the Supreme Court should be ashamed of its decision Tuesday, March 3, 2020, on the governorship seat of the State.

He also insisted that the affirmation of the sack of the Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, as the Governor, on January 13, by the Supreme Court, which also affirmed it on March 3, was nothing but  part of the 2023 calculations for the Presidency of Nigeria.

Onyeagocha: “It is aĺl about 2023. They always wanted a stake in the South-east. They found Imo convenient because it already had a stake in the state before. So, decided to take it.”

Onyeagocha spoke on a Channel’s Television programme, Politics Today, against the background of the dismissal of the case filed by Ihedioha and the PDP, asking the Supreme Court to review its sack of Ihedioha, and the declaration of APC’s Senator Hope Uzodinma, as the Governor of the state.

But by a verdict of six against one, a seven- man panel of Supreme Court Justices, headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, His Lordship, Muhammed Tanko, dismissed the appeal for a review as lacking in merit. But one of them, the Hon. Justice Centus Nweze, dissented.

Nweze found merit in Ihedioha’s appeal, and asked INEC to give him the Certificate of Return. He held the Court had the powers to reverse itself.

The other six Justices, however, disagreed with him that the Court could could sit in judgement, again, on a case it had earlier decided on.

Onyeagocha, asked if Ihedioha and his loyalists would accept Uzodinma’s hand of fellowship to work with him, which he extended as soon as his victory was affirmed, retorted:

“We will never recognise him as the Governor of Imo State. He is an unelected governor. He is a Supreme Court-elected governor. So, it is not possible for us to work with him. Any one of us in the group who feels like doing so is free to go ahead. But we will never recognise him as our governor, because he is not.

Onyeagocha, also, said that the Supreme Court knows the truth, and insisted that it explains why the Court, unlike what happened in the Bayelsa case, imposed no fines against the Counsels of the apellants. He, also, declared that it’s members would no longer embark on street protests.