…Says that he can’t win councillorship election
From George
Onyejiuwa, Owerri
THE Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has described the immediate past Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha as a brief case politician whose weapon of name dropping ended in 2015 with his defeat in the governorship election.
The governor said it would be difficult for Ihedioha to win a councillorship election in his ward because his political fortunes were dwindling very fast, noting that the only way to make himself relevant was by constant media attack on his person and government.
Okorocha was apparently reacting to the latest interview Ihedioha granted the media, in which he slammed his governance style.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, said Ihedioha sustained his growth in politics from 2003 to 2015 through name-dropping.
The statement read: “In less than four weeks, Ihedioha had granted three interviews all on Governor Okorocha and in each of the interviews, he skipped talking about the 12 years his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governed the state and the 12 years he spent in the House of Representatives because he knew they were all abysmal.
“In the latest interview, Ihedioha talked about Governor Okorocha’s style of governance in the state and how he was robbed in the 2015 gubernatorial election and so on. In all the interviews, he was very painstaking not to accuse Governor Okorocha of non-performance.”
It added: “Again, we have also decided not to be reacting to Chief Ihedioha’s constant media attacks on Governor Okorocha because we have discovered that they do all these to give outsiders the erroneous impression that they are still relevant in Imo politics, when in actual fact, they have all gone into political oblivion.”
Onwuemeodo said, “the fact is that Chief Ihedioha sustained his growth in politics from 2003 to 2015 through name-dropping and that ugly development ended in 2015, and today, he does not have any other name to drop. And if he runs for councillorship in his ward today, he will fail woefully. He is a briefcase politician and Imo people always have reservations for such politicians. He is disconnected from the people unlike Okorocha who is glued to the people.”