N19.6b Probe: Why Ihedioha Went To Court – PDP

The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has given 12 reasons the immediate past governor of the state, Chief Emeka Ihedioha went to court to stave off the probe on the utilization of N19.63 billion by local governments in 2019.

The party in a statement deposed that N16 billion of the money under probe was spent in the period between January and May when Senator Rochas Okorocha was in power.

“The party said that N3.7 billion of the amount under investigation was expended under his stewardship between June and December and that that is the amount that should ordinarily have been reported about him.

Alleging that the present administration was determined to push Ihedioha under a kangaroo trial, the PDP in the statement issued by its secretary, Nze Emeana said:

“It is instructive to note that H.E. Rochas Okorocha was the Imo State Governor from January 1, 2019 to May 28, 2019. Whereas, H.E.  Rt . Hon Emeka Ihedioha was the Imo State Governor from May 29, 2019 to December 31st 2019 that the Interim Audit Report covered.

“It should be noted that of the N19.63 billion LGA expenditures in question, approximately N16 billion was expended between January 1 to May 28 2019, during the administration of Rochas Okorocha. It was only the sum of approximately N3.7 billion that was spent by the 27 LGAs between May 29, 2019 to December 31,2019 during the administration of Governor Ihedioha.

“So, effectively it is the expenditure of N3.7 billion that the LGAs during the administration of Gov Ihedioha should explain and account for, not N19.63 billion as is being claimed and bandied about everywhere, by the current Commissioner of Information acting on behalf of Governor Hope Uzodinma of APC. The remaining sum of approximately N16 billion should be accounted for by the regime of Former Governor Rochas Okorocha.

“It was therefore surprising and smelt of a kangaroo proceedings for the Imo State House Of Assembly to purport to invite officials of government during Gov Ihedioha’s period of service to come to the House of Assembly to explain the whereabouts of the so called missing N19.63 billion.

“Indeed, the debate of the motion to investigate the interim audit report at the House of Assembly showed extreme bias and a clear premeditated case of witch-hunt, without any pretense to impartiality and objectivity.”

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