The member representing Imo West Senatorial Zone in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma has denied having any meeting with Governor Rochas Okorocha for him (Okorocha) to support him win the senatorial election and get his (Uzodinma’s) endorsement for the gubernatorial election.
Rumours and reports in some local tabloids in Owerri, the state capital, had it that arrangements may have been concluded and possibly sealed by supporters of Governor Okorocha to vote massively for Senator Uzodinma against the All Progressives Congress. APC, flag bearer for Orlu Senatorial zone, Senator Osita Izunaso during the National Assembly elections next month.
This, it was learnt, followed a meeting convened by Senator Uzodinma, where he was said to have pledged to support the governor extend his stay at Douglas House beyond 2015.
Part of the agreement, as was gathered, included that all supporters of Uzodinma would vote for Okorocha as a payback should Okororcha use his position to garner enough massive support that would see the senator returning to the red chambers.
But speaking with journalists in Owerri at the residence of his Royal Highness, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, Uzodinma, who was in the company of Chief Chuma Nnaji, deputy governorship candidate of the PDP, said he had never had any meeting with the governor over any political patronage and would never solicit for such from him in future.
The senator disclosed that Imo State was on a threshold of making another history of removing the incumbent governor because “Rochas has disappointed his generation and the greater number of the people of the state, who had expected him to act as the messiah he had claimed”.
Rather, he said “Rochas turned Imo State as a personal estate, telling the poor masses to keep enduring the poverty he had brought to the state while only his family members enjoying the good things of life”.
Uzodinma disclosed that Okorocha is the only in Nigeria who the people earnestly want to remove by all means because he has failed the state in many areas, depleting the education, health and local government as well as town union systems in the state.
