The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has stepped up efforts to be relevant in the south west as another election year draws nearer.
To this end, the leadership has scaled up processes for reconciliation as it affects South West Zonal Congress of the party.
After its meeting in Abuja, the PDP leadership resolved that
beyond the legal conundrum in the party’s formation in the zone, it must win the South West.
A statement by the party’s publicity secretary, Mr Kola Ologbodiyan, states that “consequent upon this, the NWC resolved that a meeting comprising of the National Chairman, the Deputy National Chairman, the National Secretary, the Senator Bukola Saraki-led Reconciliation and Strategic Committee, Governor Seyi Makinde and former Governor Ayo Fayose, be held immediately for urgent resolution of all issues concerning the South West.
“The NWC will meet on the outcome of this reconciliation meeting within the next 24 hours.”
The late former West Africa Regional Director of Ford Foundation, Innocent Chukwuma, has been described as a trusted friend of the media who will be remembered for his selfless service to mankind, the Journalists for Democratic Rights, JODER, said in a statement.
The Media Group said though Chukwuma spent few years on earth, those years were glorious and fruitful and far better than an age without a name.
JODER said “Media institutions and human rights journalists miss a great man of ideas who committed his entire life to making his society better. In our encounters with him spanning decades, Mr Chukwuma was a selfless man with diverse interests in human rights work that included free speech and media freedom. He was a trusted friend of the media”.
The Group added: The late Chukwuma, who was a renowned Human Rights Activist, contributed in no small measure to defending the media against state repression beginning from his days at the Civil Liberties Organisation, (CLO) when many media institutions were shut by the military.
“He was iconic in his passion for peace building across the country. He dedicated his time.
A statement by the Executive Director of JODER, Adewale Adeoye, one of Nigeria’s pioneer media rights group established in 1996, said he invested his energy in promotion of the liberty of the Media.”
The Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, still mourning the death of his spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, has said it has no hand in the presidential bid of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu or any aspirant for the 2023 election.
Afenifere, while reacting to a viral statement by the leader of South West Agenda, SWAGA, Senator Dayo Adeyeye, insinuating that his group secured the support of Afenifere for its candidate during a visit to Pa Ruben Fasoranti, erstwhile Afenifere leader on Tuesday.
The Pan Yoruba group, in a statement on Wednesday by its Director of Communications, Sola Lawal, stated that the group was still mourning the demise of Mr Odumakin.
The pan Yoruba group has announced the suspension of all engagements in honour of the deceased.
Lawal pointed out that 94-year-old Pa Fasoranti has taken a “deserved rest when he formally handed over to Chief Ayo Adebanjo three weeks ago after leading the group for 12 years and so the former couldn’t have spoken for Afenifere during the SWAGA visit to his Akure home.
“The Adeyeye foray into Afenifere space at this period of huge loss and intense mourning is disrespectful, insensitive and unwarranted.
“Being a former Afenifere top-notch and, infact, Odumakin’s immediate predecessor in office as the spokesperson for Afenifere, Adeyeye should cease all activities and join us in mourning at these trying times.”
Controversial Presidential Aide, Lauretta Onochie, has asked Nigerians to keep wailing over President Mohamadu Buhari’s Medical trips abroad.
Ms Onochie, known for her acid tongue, in a post, carried by Linda Ikeji’s blog, said that her Principal has two more years of medical trips to London, while Nigerians have two more years of wailing.
According to her, Buhari is not about to dump his doctors of many years because he is Nigeria:s President.
The post entitled ”TWO MORE YEARS OF WAILING , reads:
“We have been here since 2016. It’s been the same wailing. So the response will also be the same. I do not understand why the pandemic has negatively affected certain people more than the rest of us.
“People across the world, have personal physicians. President Buhari is not an exception. People go to wherever their personal doctors are especially one they have seen for decades. Pres.
“Buhari won’t dump his doctor of about 40 years so that wailers can be happy. That’s blackmail.
“Thankfully, he doesn’t pay blackmailers.When he took ill in 2016, everything was explained. I was running from one media house to the other like a headless chicken, educating us on the psychology of the relationship between a patient and his or her long-standing doctor.
“Thankfully, he made a full recovery. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, he went for #CheckUps. In 2020 he went before the beginning of the pandemic.
“The same wailing and the same explanations. I do not know any man who will have a different barber cut his hair when the one he is used to, is not available.
“I don’t know any lady who would have her hair or nails done by a different hair dresser or technician from her usual, let alone, change her doctor. But it goes to show that many of us do not go for checkups because we do not understand what it means.
“We only see doctors when we are unwell. Those who take their health seriously, have annual checkups. That’s what President Buhari is attending to. The same wailers told their gullible followers that the man in the Villa, is not President Buhari. So, why bother?
“The fact remains that if President Buhari chooses, he will go for checkups in 2022, and 2023. Then from 2024, when he will not need to inform Nigerians, he will continue to go. Its his choice to go or not to go. Wailing cannot take away his rights to see his personal doctors.
“So, wailers must get ready for two more years of wailing.” The post Wailing wont stop President Buhari from going on medical trips”
Onochie is the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari On Social Media
I would never have believed that a day would come when a Nigerian judge would engage in street fighting, no matter the level of provocation. It was for this reason that I initially thought the video showing a suit-wearing fellow, referred to as a certain powerful judge, kicking and slapping a security guard at the Banex Plaza, Abuja last week, was a Nollywood video.
But when it was later confirmed that the kick-boxer was actually a serving judge, identified as Justice Danladi Umar, Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, I was shocked.
When the Head of Press and Public Relations of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Ibraheem al-Hassan, later issued a statement in defence of the learned Judge, my shock turned to petrification. Nothing could be more shocking than seeing the man in charge of the country’s Code of Conduct Tribunal in such disgraceful misconduct in public.
Justice Umar may have been watching a lot of UFC shows and may have learnt one or two things about how to punch, kick and overwhelm the opponent, but not even Israel Adesanya or Kamaru Usman would behave in such manner as seen in that video.
Judges occupy a position of great value in society. They are guided by a code of conduct that requires them to be on their best behaviour at all times, either on the Bench or away from it. They are required like Caesar’s wife to be above board.
Justice Danladi Umar has stayed long enough on the Bench. He certainly does not need to be lectured on this fine point. He became a Chief Magistrate before the age of 36, and was appointed Acting Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal at 36. He was appointed Chairman of the Tribunal at the age of 40, the youngest Nigerian to assume that office. He is now 50, and has been in charge of the Code of Conduct Bureau either as Acting Chairman or as Chairman for more than 14 years. What got into him?
At a point, I was afraid that his Lordship, if not restrained by security men, was going to remove his jacket and charge ferociously like a kickboxer in the ring! He should be advised to stop watching kick-boxing matches just in case he does so.
There may well be persons out there who will insist that Justice Umar is after all, a human being and no man is infallible. And to show just how human he is, we are told that he goes to the Banex Plaza regularly to shop and repair his phones if he has to. He doesn’t send aides to do the rounds for him. He goes there himself. But I don’t see how this justifies his misconduct.
Nobody expects judges to be invalids. A judge going to a shopping mall is not an achievement. Other professionals live a normal life and engage in routine activities, but they do not go about engaging in physical altercations or punch-ups.
They respect rules of communal conduct. And a judge should know about rules.
The security guard at the Banex Plaza was said to have told His Lordship’s driver that he could not park at a particular spot. He was doing his job, as a guard and parking attendant. He obviously was not in a position to know the status of the occupant of the vehicle he was re-directing. Justice Umar was said to have insisted that his driver would occupy a chosen space. This was at the Banex Plaza, a shopping centre, not at the premises of the Code of Conduct Tribunal where he is the Boss. There is also no indication in Justice Umar’s resume that he once worked as a parking attendant and hence, had a better understanding of how vehicles should be parked.
Naturally, the Banex Plaza staff insisted on doing his job, and that led to an altercation and the Judge rushing out of the car.
In the recorded video of the incident that has since gone viral, someone could be heard in the background saying: “Hey! Hey! Hey! This man is mad. Your power will not save you. Respect yourself. Oga go inside your car. You are not the most powerful herdsman… Respect yourself, dem go beat you comot for here.. Hey! Hey! Who are you? Who you be?…Dem don lock the gate. Dem go show you pepper here today…Who are you? Who are you?.. Close the gate.. Close the gate. One Fulani man think say he get all the power in the world. Who are you? We make the rules here. If Buhari come here dem go show am pepper. See. Dem don break him glass… Hei! Heeei!”
It was a very ugly situation in which the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal found himself.
The CCT Head of Press and Public Relations, Ibraheem Al-Hassan, later issued a statement on the incident in which he says “the boy was rude in his approach and threatened to deal with the Chairman if he refused to leave the scene”. The statement claims that the CCT Chairman was assaulted by “Biafran Boys”. Danladi Umar himself has commented directly on what transpired. He said he was assaulted by persons who chanted “secessionist and sectional slogans” and that the video in circulation does not show the part where he was “molested.” He says he “regrets being drawn into responding to the situation.”
It is surprising that days after the incident, Justice Umar is more or less still arguing that he was provoked into resorting to physical assault. He also does not see anything wrong in the reference to “Biafran Boys.” He repeats the offence in that regard by referring to “secessionists” and conveniently, he concludes that his action “has been misconstrued in the narrative floating across the social media”.
He still doesn’t get it, does he? He is a jurist, an officer in the temple of justice, and even if he is “drawn into responding to the situation”, he really believes that “kick-boxing” is the best response? If he was molested, and that can be proven, why would he then take the law into his own hands? A man whose job is to enforce the law should not be seen breaking the law. If Justice Umar has an anger management problem, he should be encouraged to seek help.
Ugoji Egbujo has written an opinion piece titled “Nigeria’s CCT Chairman as a Senior Agbero” (Premium Times, April 5, 2021). I respect the judex so much I wouldn’t dare translate the Yoruba word, “agbero” into English or quote Egbujo’s expletives-ridden commentary. But I think Justice Umar needs to learn some very quick lessons, or lend himself some wisdom.
No 1: We are in the age of social media, citizen journalism and the democratization of news. Whatever anyone does in public, can be easily recorded by persons wielding even the cheapest smart phone in the market. Private conversations on phone can be recorded and edited. Whatever is recorded can be published almost immediately.
Twenty years ago, the drama at Banex Plaza involving the CCT Chairman could have occurred and nobody will know about it. If it gets noticed by the media, Umar’s Press Team would have appealed to editors to please kill the story. These days, it is difficult to kill a story. The citizen journalist who operates on Instagram and WhatsApp may not even have a by-line. The standard phrase is that bad news sells. It not only sells; it now travels at the speed of ligt.
No. 2: Nigeria is no longer a place where anybody wearing some fancy clothes, driving a big car, going about with uniformed security can expect that his class and stature will intimidate less privileged members of society. You can no longer go about telling people: “Do you know who I am?” No matter who you are, you will most likely be told: “Who are you? Or Who do you think you are? Do you feed me? Okay, do you know who I am too? And what makes you think I should know who you are?”
Nigerians are angry. It is better not to provoke them any further.
No. 3: Justice Umar talks about “secessionists and sectional slogans”. Ibraheem Al-Hasan in his first press statement said Umar has been going to the Banex Plaza for about 18 years. Apparently, most people there did not know his identity. But now with the video that has gone viral, his cover has been blown. Common sense should tell the CCT Chairman that it is in his best interest to stay away from that plaza for a while.
And No 4: did Justice Umar directly ask Ibraheem al-Hassan to refer to the persons at the Banex Plaza as “Biafran Boys”? Is he aware that this contravenes Section 26 of the Cybercrimes Act 2015 as has been correctly pointed out by Femi Falana, SAN? Al-Hasan also insists that he acted on the directive of the CCT Chairman. Can someone please help explain to Mallam Al-Hassan that no public officer is excused under the law with such an explanation that he or she was carrying out an unlawful order just because a superior official gave a directive to that effect? The penalty for the use or suggestion of xenophobic words is five years imprisonment and/or a minimum fine of N10 million.
Al-Hassan is the Head of Press and Public Relations at the CCT. He was deployed to that agency by the Federal Ministry of Information. I was furious reading the first press statement that he issued on the Danladi Umar incident. It was riddled with grammatical infelicities, howlers, spelling errors, wrong word use and the abuse of syntax. As Nigerians are wont to say, the guy “murdered the English language”: “video cliff” instead of “video clip”; “Packing lot” instead of “parking lot”; “fixe” instead of “fix”; “had went” instead of “had gone”, “rode instead of rude”, “refuse” instead of “refused”. I had to take analgesics after reading his press statement.
Al-Hassan’s excuse in a public apology is that he wrote “under intense pressure and instruction” and was unable to proof-read the statement! What does this tell us about standards, competence and quality control? Al-Hassan should be sent on a refresher course in public communication without any further delay.
Public outrage on all the issues raised above is in order. Many groups have asked that Justice Umar should resign for conduct unbecoming of his status. Others want him reported to the Federal Judicial Service Commission, the Presidency and the National Assembly for sanction. The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has condemned his conduct, described as a “display of naked power” and has ordered an investigation with a view to taking “appropriate action”. Others have dredged up old allegations against him including how he was the one who issued a controversial ex parte order for the suspension of former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen. Umar has stirred the hornet’s nest. But nobody should count on anything happening to the CCT Chairman by way of sanction. He will not resign. That is certain. And he is not willing to apologise properly either.
The man he assaulted, Clement Sargwak, 22, can only be advised to seek an enforcement of his fundamental human rights and thereby institute legal action against him.
If breath was the currency of life and its legal tender…then, Yinka spent his breath on causes.
The medics said his oxygen level was running low. But my husband was reaching out for his tab to type out his column…
He was never frugal in spending that oxygen on his Yoruba earth – his beloved and his Nigeria – his truly beloved
My memories are rousing through chains of pains. A sea surge of a romance which sprouted in Gen. Sani Abacha’s detention.
My husband was not a criminal, neither was I. Our “crime” was standing strong for others as we always have been. We will return to the dingy detention cell in our reminiscences later!
Who meets and marries from detention at Alagbon? Only Yinka would ask! And only I would say YES!
We were introduced to each other by the most qualified, the most pre-eminent, and the most decorated of inmates – Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAM, SAN).
Chief said: “Yinka, she’s a man!”. Yinka married both the man & the woman in me!
It was our truest solemnization of activist matrimony by a revered High Priest of the struggle…with the trench as our altar and the good of our people as our ultimate goal.
Yinka, it cannot be goodbye, It is goodnight and see you later on the other side with God.
I will bask with reckless abandon in the shadow of your cast…
Since no one is permitted in the Critical Care Unit, we had commited you to the care of the best qualified medics at LASUTH, and the hand of God, hoping to see you next morning.
The medics said they could not fathom how to immediately relay the message of your passage to me directly.
Now that I am in possession of your death certificate, I can see you passed at exactly 10.40pm on Good Friday (April 2nd, 2021) and not in the morning of Saturday, April 3rd, 2021) as initially communicated.
Due to the principles of the truth and saying it as it is, which Yinka and I hold dear – and which Yinka lived all his adult life for – it is important to immediately put this very important record straight.
You came! you saw!! and you conquered!!!
We will carry forward the baton in the eternal word of our leader, Nigeria will be saved, Nigeria will be changed and Nigeria will become a great nation. Nigeria will work in my lifetime and even in yours as you live on in me, our children and generation yet unborn.
Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, Activist, is the wife of the recently late Activist, Yinka Odumakin
A shocked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has described the Nigerian system as imperfect. He also described the Easter Monday attack on the Owerri, Imo State Correctional Centre and the Headquarters of the State Police Command as atrocious. He said that the release of jailed and detained criminals from Prison and Police cells was dangerous. And he urged the people of Imo State to resist the destabilization of their State.
Osinbajo on a visit to the State on Tuesday admonished Imolites, in particular, and the South East zone in general to resist attempts by hoodlums to thwart their peace and consequently stall progress and development in the area.
Heavily armed hoodlums, in their hundreds, using sophisticated weapons, including explosives, had invaded the HQs of the Imo Police Command and the Correctional centre in the early hours of Easter Monday, April 5, 2021. According to the State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, they had also tried to invade the Government House, which is opposite the Police HQs, but were repelled by Security personnel.
During the attack, 1884 prisoners and scores of detainees were released from the Correctional Centre and the Imo Police Command, respectively. Several buildings and over 50 vehicles parked within the premises of the Police Command were razed. And so were many buildings at the Correctional Centre.
Professor Osinbajo spoke in Owerri, while reacting to the unprecedented attacks.
*It was also on a day the Vice President commissioned some roads – Dick Tiger Road and Dick Tiger Street – abandoned for 28 years, but which Governor Hope Uzodimma recovered.*
After a tour of the two Federal Government institutions, the Vice President noted that “an attack on a critical institution of law enforcement such as the Police Station and Prison is an attack on security and well being of citizens”, and described such act as “atrocious and condemnable.”
His words: “When you attack institutions of law and order it is evidence it is not an attack on justice as usual. It is an attack on the welfare and well being of the people, especially when you free prisoners, some of who may be dangerous to the community, dangerous to the people. It is particularly atrocious and condemnable. Government has already taken steps to enhance security here and in the Correctional Facilities and the State generally and that is a continuing process.”
He added: “Perhaps more than any other part of the country, this region has borne witness to the very terrible cost in life, liberty and progress that is exacted by conflict. It is a least beautiful lie that our country learned an enduring lesson in the futility of violence for there are those who believe that to resolve conflicts and issues other than by violence is cowardice.
“If the voice of their hatred prevails, we will experience a terrible and needless loss of lives that violence exerts.”
He acknowledged that the Nigerian system is not perfect, but insisted that “what democracy and institution of a democratic governance provide are channels for seeking peaceful resolution to conflicts and injury.”
The Vice President said there were many working tirelessly everyday to improve the system and called on Nigerians to reject agents of anarchy that seek to weaponize the frustrations and discontent of the youths for their own profits. He warned that the path of violence can only lead to destruction and desolation of communities.
Prof Osinbajo warned that peace should not be taken for granted, “because it was dangerous to learn the value of peace through the horrible crucible of war.”
He commended Governor Hope Uzodimma for the mature manner he handled the situation and assured Imo people and residents that the security of the state has since been further enhanced. “The search for the escaped inmates began in earnest even” just as he assured that the Federal Government stands with the State.
The Vice President used the opportunity to commission the Dick Tiger Road and the Dick Tiger Street in the Owerri Municipal which had been abandoned by successive Imo Governments for 28 years.
For their refusal to allow themselves to be raped by hoodlums, suspected to be herdsmen, three women in Ekiti state are currently on danger list at a government hospital.
This, it was gathered, was the aftermath of attacks on them by the suspected herdsmen at their resident in Irele-Oke-Ako area of Ikole local government.
According to an eye witness account, the victims were attacked with cutlass leaving them with deep cuts on their heads before they were rushed to the General Hospital, Ikole Ekiti.
It was gathered that the herders, numbering about six, invaded the building where the women reside and demanded for money.
Reports indicate that the women claimed that they had no money with them except one N200 note they gave to their attackers.
The herdsmen reportedly collected the money and made attempt to forcefully sleep with the women.
The refusal of the women to release themselves for the sex bout resulted to the attack, before the attackers fled the scene.
A top Aide of Ekiti state Governor on Security, Mr Dele Olugbemi, who confirmed the incident, described the attack as unfortunate.
Irele, a farm settlement in Ekiti state has become a volatile area as herdsmen have almost sent packing, farmers from their farms and took over the entire area.
The farmers had made several appeals to the state government to assist them to reclaim their farm from the herders but, it seems government is helpless, even the state security outfit, Amotekun could not help the situation.
With immediate effect, President Muhammadu Buhari sacked Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police. In his place, Buhari appointed DIG Usman Alkali Baba as the new IGP, but in an acting position.
Except on two occasions, the acting IGP is usually confirmed as the substantive IGP.
Adamu’s sack which was announced to State House Correspondents by the Minister for Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, comes 48 hours after the unprecedented attack in Owerri, Imo State, on the Correctional Centre, and the Imo State Police Command Headquarters, by hundreds of heavily armed hoodlums.
During the horrific and devastating attack in the morning of Monday, April 5, least 1,800 prisoners were set free by the rampaging hoodlums. And, at the Police Command, most of the detainees were released. Not only were buildings razed at both locations of attack, but almost all the vehicles parked at the Police Command, including operational vehicles, were burnt.
The sack also came 24 hours after Adamu visited the Imo State Police Command on an assessment tour of the destruction. While addressing the Officers and Men, he ordered them to shoot their attackers on sight. He had, hours after the attack, put the blame on the IPOB/ESN.
Abubakar Mohammed Adamu
Buhari had, inexplicably extended, for three months, on February 4, Adamu’s tenure as the IGP, instead of allowing him to retire at his attainment of 35 years in the Force, his tenure, having been dotted by a number of security failures and needless controversies, especially, with the Police Service Commission, PSC.
Not a few people were aghast when his tenure was extended. It was greeted with condembation by many individuals and groups. At least, a case is still in the Court, challenging the extension.
He only spent about two months out of the three-month extension before his sack.
Adamu’s sack may not be unconnected with the Imo attack as the Presidency was said to be very embarrassed by it.
Until his appointment, Baba was the DIG Force Criminal Intelligence Department, FCIID.
Born in 1963, he enlisted into the Police as an ASP in 1988.
The new IGP holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration, and a First Degree in Political Science.
In his first major interview with a national daily since his historic victory in the Courts over his illegal impeachment, former Imo State Deputy Governor, Sir Jude Agbaso, has told the story of the travails he went through. He also named those who were behind his inexplicable impeachment not quite two years after he and then Governor Rochas Okorocha were sworn into office.
Aside from Okorocha and the then Speaker of the House of Assembly, the now late Ben Uwajimogu, one of main drivers of the impeachment was Okorocha’s wife, Nkechi, a woman who, ordinarily, would have had no business poking her nose in the illegal process, or the administration of the State.
Recall that Agbaso was impeached over a false allegation of taking bribe to the tune of over N400m from a company, J-Pros.
In an interview with the Sunday Punch of April 4, Agbaso said one of the most troubling times he had at the time was the Governor calling him to try to, at once, blackmail and cajole him into accepting guilt for a crime he, Agbaso, did not commit. According to him, Okorocha called him and asked him to accept that he took the bribe to enable him halt the impeachment process. Agbaso refused.
Yet, Okorocha deceived him, and said he knew nothing about the (false) allegations which led to his impeachment.
Rochas Okorocha
When Agbaso first heard rumours of the plot to impeach him, he said he did not take it seriously. Even when he noticed that Okorocha was sending people to sniff around the Ministry of Works which he supervised, he was not worrried. He said his books were impeccable.
But one day, out of the blues, it burst.
Agbaso: “Okorocha is a master of deception. The rumour got to a crescendo that he had engineered my impeachment, and he was on his way to Kosovo.
“I called him, and he swore he had nothing to do with it. I challenged him to come back and call it off, and he came back to Imo the next day. But he had set up people against me. Many stakeholders came to listen to him. He told them that if I would just admit wrong dealings, he would go into the bedroom, and together, we would come out settled. But I said no. I had no skeletons in my cupboard.”
Agbaso, also, identified his successor in office after his impeachment, Prince Eze Madumere, as the person who liased with the late Uwajimogu (Speaker of the Imo House of Assembly at the time), Simeon Iwunze, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Jude Ejiogu, and Okorocha’s wife, Nkechi, to remove him from office.
Perhaps, it was fate, but all those named by Agbaso as engineering his ouster, did not end up well with Okorocha, or get the satisfaction for which he was impeached.
Uwajimogu fell out with Okorocha, and was one of those instrumental to denying his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, the APC Governorship ticket.
In Madumere’s case, he suffered the same fate as Agbaso. He was, also, treated very badly in office and was impeached.
Jude Ejiogu was sacked with ignominy as the SSG, and Anyanwu did not return to the Senate.
Okorocha’s wife did not have the satisfaction of being the First Lady’s mother, after being a First Lady herself – the reason Agbaso’s impeachment was engineered. Nor did her husband have the satisfaction of continuing in office for a third term through his son-in-law, Nwosu.
Yet, in all of Agbaso’s travails in the hands of Okorocha, the ex-Governor is still owing Agbaso snr, Chief Martin Agbaso, one of the backs, under APGA, on which he climbed to become a Governor.
Said Agbaso, ex-Deputy Governor, “Funnily enough, Okorocha still owes my elder brother N7.2 million.”
Okorocha is now the Senator, representing Imo West, and has a vaulting ambition of running for the President in 2023.
In his State, Imo, where he once bestrode as a colossus, Okorocha is embattled on all fronts.
The Imo State Government is stripping him and and members of his family of all the alleged looting of the people’s patrimony during his governorship of the State.
Recently, an Imo State High Court declared Agbaso’s impeachment null, void, and of no effect. It is expected, according to the terms of settlement, that all his entitlements will be paid to him.
