The Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District and former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday said governor of the State, Hope Uzodinma, sent more than 1000 thugs to attack him.
The Senator and three of his associates were arrested by the police after he and his supporters, armed policemen, Soldiers, and the personnel of National Security and Civil Defence Corps stormed Royal Spring Palm Estate, Owerri, and unsealed it.
The Imo State government through the State Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Physical Planning, Enyinnaya Onuegbu, had sealed the estate linked to his wife, Nkechi Okorocha on Friday, threatening to demolish it.
Sam Onwuemeodo, spokesperson of the Senator in a statement on Sunday, alleged that Uzodinma’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Chinasa Nwanari, allegedly led thugs who stormed the estate and destroyed vehicles in his convoy.
According to Nwanari: “More than 1000 thugs, armed to teeth with knives and guns and led by Chinasa Nwaneri, Governor Hope Uzodinma’s Special Adviser on Special Duties today, 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 damaged all the Vehicles in his Convoy. They also attacked his personal aides.
“Senator Okorocha was with only his personal aides when the thugs unleashed the attack.
“This is the information we can give as of now. We are still watching events as they unfold.
“Okorocha has the strongest political structure in the state and teaming followers in the State. If he had expected the attack, he would not have moved with his personal aides alone.
“Okorocha has never been a violent man. This planned attack but unprovoked and unwarranted has opened a new, but ugly chapter in the politics of the State. We shall react fully to the situation.”
