Politics
Okorocha is a pain in the neck of Imo people, Sen Umeh laments
Former All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) national chairman, Senator Victor Umeh, has regretted the role he played in making Imo State’s Governor Rochas Okorocha emerge leader of the state in 2011.
Umeh, who currently represents Anambra Central senatorial district at the Senate, described Okorocha as “a pain in the neck” of his Imo people and prayed God to forgive him to have campaigned for Okorocha to become governor under APGA.
Okorocha first emerged as Imo State governor in 2011 under APGA platform when Umeh was the leader of the party. Okorocha later dumped APGA for the All Progressives Congress (APC), where he re-contested and got re-elected in 2015.
But reacting to the move by the Imo Assembly to impeach the state’s Deputy Governor, Eze Madumere, over his opposition to Okorocha’s alleged efforts to impose his son-in-law as his successor, Umeh said that the governor has become an “evil” who had become an “island unto himself” and “a pain in the neck of his people.”
He stated this when he spoke at the inauguration of “Senator Victor Umeh Support Group” at Neni in the Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State.
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Wondering why Okorocha should be so desperate to instigate the impeachment of his deputy, who he claimed worked so hard to ensure the success of Okorocha as governor of Imo State state, Umeh said: “Madumere was even detained because he was fighting for Okorocha, only for the governor to want to impeach him because the governor wants his son-in-law to be governor of the state.”
Recalling how Okorocha in 2013 allegedly spearheaded the impeachment of his first deputy, Umeh argued that there must be something wrong with the Imo governor, who he advised to understand that there was no way he could be the only “Mr Right” all the time.
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