We Shall React Fully To The Situation - Sam Onwuemeodo Says Over Okorocha's Arrest

 

A former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday alleged that the governor of the State, Hope Uzodinma, attacked him with “more than 1000 thugs”.

Okorocha and three of his political associates were on Sunday arrested by the state police command after he and his supporters together with armed policemen, Soldiers, and the personnel of National Security and Civil Defence Corps stormed Royal Spring Palm Estate, Owerri, and unsealed it.

The Estate changed into connected to his spouse, Nkechi Okorocha.

The kingdom government thru the State Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Physical Planning, Enyinnaya Onuegbu, had on Friday supervised the sealing of the Estate.

Okorocha’s spokesperson, Sam Onwuemeodo, in a statement on Sunday, alleged that the governor’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Chinasa Nwanari, allegedly led thugs who stormed the property and destroyed vehicles in his convoy.

The declaration examine, “More than a thousand thugs, armed to enamel with knives and guns and led by way of Chinasa Nwaneri, Governor Hope Uzodinma’s Special Adviser on Special Duties these days, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, with the backing of armed policemen from Government House, attacked the former governor of the State and Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Senator Rochas Okorocha’s Convoy.

“They attacked and broken all of the Vehicles in his Convoy. They additionally attacked his non-public aides.

“Senator Okorocha changed into with handiest his non-public aides whilst the thugs unleashed the attack.

“This is the facts we can deliver as of now. We are nonetheless watching occasions as they spread.

“Okorocha has the strongest political shape in the state and teaming followers within the State. If he had expected the attack, he would now not have moved together with his personal aides alone.

“Okorocha has never been a violent man. This planned attack however unprovoked and unwarranted has opened a brand new, but unsightly bankruptcy inside the politics of the State. We shall react fully to the situation.”