Imolites have continued to react to an interview granted by former Governor Rochas Okorocha, where along with attacking the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, also took swipes at the Presidency, as well as the former Deputy governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere MFR.
Reactions have come from Imolites cutting across party lines.
Obidike Nwagwu Esq, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, in Obowo, and a popular Imo State opinion moulder and legal practitioner, have issued a response to the former Governor in an article made available to MaaziTV, and reads as follows;
You Are Unelectable And Rejected By Imo People
By Chibuike Oparaku
It’s unfortunate, that the former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha is still terrified by the growing and widely accepted personality of Prince Eze Madumere; an issue of inferiority complex, that has haunted Okororcha for many years, and pushed him to try unsuccessfully, to dampen the shine of a man who is better than him in all ramifications.
Rochas Okorocha in a recent interview, claimed Prince Eze Madumere MFR, was not electable, forgetting however, that had it not been the bravery of Prince Eze Madumere, which even got him arrested for standing up to former governor Ikedi Ohakim and former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Rochas Okorocha would never have become governor of Imo State.
While Okororcha is deluding himself over who he thinks is electable or not, mind I remind him that he did not win the 2015 election, but was rigged back into power with the help of his current political bedfellow, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, anothet very unelectable man.
Ihedioha won that election, but Madumere delivered Mbaitoli.
Yet, you claim Madumere is not electable. Madumere was unelectable, yet he delivered Okororcha in Mbaitoli, which is a PDP stronghold, and also delivered the House of Assembly seat for APC.
Unlike Okororcha, who rigged results from other local governments with the help of Araraume (which was why he gave Araraume’s son a commissioner position), Madumere didn’t pay anybody a penny to vote for APC in Mbaitoli.
That shows a man who is accepted by his people, despite everything Rochas Okorocha did, to discredit him in their eyes.
When Okororcha paid his stooges in the Imo Assembly, to attempt a failed move of impeaching Prince Eze Madumere, and illegally withdrew his security so that Madumere would be oprn for assassination, who volunteered to protect Madumere until the court returned his security? The people of Imo State came out in their number, from all over the state, and took turns at guarding Prince Eze Madumere’s home, as well as following him around at their own expense, to ensure Okororcha’s plot to eliminate Madumere failed.
Imolites came out to protect and defend their champion. Can Okorocha, who claims to be electable, boost of such support?
Why don’t we put it to a test?
Okororcha’s annoyance with Madumere is the fact, that Prince Eze Madumere is the single reason why Uche Nwosu failed.
Okororcha knew that Madumere was the only person, whose support would have turned the table, and begged Madumere severally to support his plot to make Imo State his family business.
Prince Eze Madumere’s refusal to enslave the people of Imo State, was the reason Okorocha tried to impeach him, and wanted him eliminated.
His failure to eliminate Madumere, was the reason Uche Nwosu failed.
Despite the manipulation of results, which was done with billions of state funds, Uche Nwosu and Rochas Okorocha could not turn Imo State into an extension of their family business as they intended.
This is Okororcha’s biggest headache with Madumere, and his biggest regret.
Did Okororcha even win the Orlu Senate seat? The people on the streets will beg to differ, if you go there and ask them. For a man who failed even his people in Ogboko as a governor, he has not been able to attract anything to his people as a Senator. He is probably one of those, who spend their time sleeping in the Red Chamber, and in his characteristic greed, pocketing the constituency benefits of his people. Despite using State power and funds to execute his election, he didn’t find it easy, and till date, despite the ruling of the court, nobody in Imo State believe he won that election fairly.
In the next two years, it will be confirmed, that Okororcha cannot even win a councillorship position in his own backyard.
Okororcha claims Madumere was not electable, why don’t we organise an election for both of them, and independently see who will win?
It is unfortunate that the most hated man in Imo State, is still living in delusion that he is loved. It’s like a man living in a fool’s paradise.
There was widespread jubilation, across Imo State, the day Okororcha was arrested like a rat in a basket, and like a common criminal, paraded about by the police.
It’s unfortunate that Okororcha has remained to shameless to realise that his time is up, and he has been rejected by the people.
Let’s put out a challenge to Okorocha. Let him and Prince Eze Madumere walk along Douglas road without security, and see who comes out alive and unharmed. If Okorocha believes he is electable and loved, this should be a simple challenge to him.
I don’t expect Prince Eze Madumere to waste his time, reacting to the ramblings of a deluded man. Prince Eze Madumere is too educated, too civilised, and too refined to speak as carelessly and directionlessly as Okororcha, and would certainly not pay him any attention.
Okororcha’s several attempts at reconciliation, which Madumere has rebuffed, has probably frustrated him into making the comments he made.
I’ll advise Okorocha to may more attention to giving account, and returning every property of the State he stole, rather than trying to curry sympathy through the media.
Imo people and Nigerians, have no sympathy for governors who looted their state treasury, owed workers and pensioners, stole state property, converted people’s lands to their own, and generally made life so difficult for the people.
Let me also remind Okororcha, that nobody is taking his so-called presidential ambition seriously, because the day Nigeria makes that mistake Imo State made in 2011, it would be the end of this country as we know it.
