Nzeribe is finished –Gov
Udenwa
By STAN OKEKE
Monday, June 19, 2006
Imo State Governor, Chief Achike Udenwa, has predicted the
imminent fall of controversial Senator, Chief Arthur Nzeribek,
from his exalted position into political abyss.
Speaking to journalists at the Government Lodge, Owerri, Gov.
Udenwa said that Sen. Nzeribe "has come to the end of
it all." According to the governor, Nzeribe cannot continue
to take the same people he represent for granted.
"He has come to the end of it all, and cannot continue
like this," the governor, who traced the genesis of his
problems with Nzeribe to the issue of state creation emphasised.
While explaining that Sen. Nzeribe was part and parcel of
his own constituency demanding for a state Udenwa said: "
As that process was going on, he now went behind to carve
out another area for himself to challenge the one that his
constituency, including himself, had earlier demanded."
Gov.Udenwa pointed out that the people resisted him, insisting
that he could no longer take them for granted.
On the arrest of the 23 LGA Chairmen in the State, Udenwa
said that the same Nzeribe wrote a petition to the senate,
claiming that monies belonging to the 774 local govermnent
areas were being misappropriated by state governments, using
Imo State as example.
" I don’t see anything strange about it. Anybody
can petition EFCC on any issue and what the EFCC need do is
to investigate or get whoever made such allegations to substantiate
it."
However, he pointed out that with Nzeribe’s track record,
nobody would be shocked or surprised at his ploy to incriminate
local government chairmen in Imo state
Meanwhile, Nzeribe received the shock of his life at the Igbo
Political Summit in Owerri as he was booed out of the Sam
Mbakwe Conference Hall of the Imo Concorde Hotel, venue of
the summit, for his alleged ignoble roles during the third
term saga, while the President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Prof. Joe
Irukwu, was not allowed to deliver his prepared speech. Even
the intervention of Gov. Udenwa, did not save the situation
for him.
Former Senate President, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, had to hurriedly
called a press conference where he made excuses for the third
termers, arguing that the matter was now behind Nigerians.
He pleaded that they (pro third termers) should be allowed
the opportunity to contribute their own quota to the Igbo
cause.
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