Rochas Okorocha, Senator representing Imo West has met with Vice-President Yemi Osibanjo over feud with Hope Uzodimman, his predecessor, saying what he is most interested in is not to create tension in the state.
Okorocha who governed the state for eight years has been engulfed in a bitter feud with Uzodimma over the conversion of landed assets and funds belonging to the state.
Senator Okorocha who spoke after meeting Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday said he would not want the feud to escalate further.
According to him: “The question is ‘what wrong has Rochas done?’ Have I done any wrong bringing APC to the south-east? And when I built APC, none of these people were there. They were all in PDP,” he said.
“Was it wrong that I encouraged my family to invest in their state, rather than investing abroad? I asked nothing of the government. I simply wanted to live my free life. But it is for he that accuses to prove.
He said that what preoccupies his mind is to make sure that he and Uzodimma do not create tension in the state.
Okorocha explained that the country already has a lot of insecurity.
According to him, the police that ought to be busy doing something else should not be busy going to guide the sealing of a property with a white paper stronger than court judgment.
“Can a governor use a white paper to execute a judgment? Can you be a judge in your own case? These are the questions begging for answers, and why the use of thugs to attack your immediate predecessor and a senator of the federal republic?
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“What are you trying to achieve? Now that you have arrested him, or forced him to the police station with thugs, what have you achieved? What is the case against him? Nothing.
He described his conflict with Uzodimma as a very “unusual situation”.
He added that it is a script that is playing out, and this script has been for too long, TheCable reports.
He condemned the sealing of some of his properties in Imo, adding that he didn’t understand why he was being “attacked”.
“I am still waiting to understand the reason why all the attack because before, the allegation was that the money used in the building was government money,”.
“Now it has changed; it is no longer the issue of government money, but that it is built on the green verge and allocation where government house was supposed to be built. I am still waiting and only time will tell.
“But let it be known that I was Rochas Okorocha before the governor, and I am still Rochas Okorocha after the governor. Government House never made me. I was who I was before becoming governor. Rather, I would say that becoming governor was a sacrifice on my own part.
“But talking about the properties in question — the schools, the East High College, Rochas Foundation College, the Royal Spring Palm Hotel and the university — these outfits are all charitable outfits for the Rochas Foundation. And I brought them back home as a sign of investment to encourage investment in my own state, where I come from.
“So, the allegation that it is built on the green verge or built where Government House was supposed to be built is neither here nor there. It is rather trying to make excuses to carry out an already planned attack.”
