Okorocha: Ihedioha Using Smear Campaign Against My Wife And I To Prepare For Guber Rerun

Senator Rochas Okorocha has dared Governor Emeka Ihedioha to publish details of the 67 vehicles and N50 billion belonging to the Imo State Government allegedly moved by him and his wife at the end of his tenure as governor.

Okorocha in a statement on Thursday said the smear campaign against him and his wife was part of Governor Ihedioha’s preparation for the rerun he said was bound to follow at the end of the ongoing judicial arbitration brought against the outcome of the last Imo State governorship election.

Okorocha’s statement was in the face of diverse reports by operatives of the new administration in Imo State that Okorocha, his wife, and appointees who worked for him went away with several vehicles and state assets.

The statement issued by his spokesman, Sam Onwuemeodo read in part:

“We Challenge Governor Emeka Ihedioha and his appointees to publish the list and particulars of these 67 vehicles and the details of the N50 billion the former governor and the wife made away with vis-à-vis other items thereto. And we give them 7 days to do the Publication or bend their heads downward in shame.

“We also Challenge them to publish the properties the former appointees must have left with, either as a group or as individuals. The burden to publish evidence of all these claims is now on Governor Ihedioha and his appointees.”

Observing diverse claims by officials of the Ihedioha administration, Okorocha thus asked them to harmonise their claims as he alleged that the new governor had other aims.

“We want to let Nigerians know that the PDP people in the State are doing their Campaign for possible re-run because they know that, in all considerations, Chief Ihedioha never won that election.

“All these smear Campaigns against Owelle Okorocha and the wife are geared biasing the minds of Imo people against their beloved former governor in preparation for the possible re-run. This is the fact.

“That is also the reason no day passes without their making one invalid claim against the former governor or the other. If they are not talking about the flyovers built by the former governor being death traps, they would talk about the tunnels not properly built or about vehicles and money taken away.”

“Nigerians should ignore them until they muster the courage to publish what they have claimed. Since the burden or the yoke of proof is always on the neck of the accuser.”

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