A political group in the Orlu Senatorial District of Imo, the Orlu Political Consultative Assembly (OPOCA), has asked Senator Rochas Okorocha to apologise to the Imo State Government over his reaction to the sealing of his property.
It demanded this at a conference in Owerri, threatening to recall Okorocha from the National Assembly if he refused to apologise to the state.
OPOCA National President, Rex Anunobi, berated the former governor over his alleged attempt to break a property sealed by the state government.
He said, “The OPOCA, after an extraordinary emergency meeting, is using this opportunity to give the former governor and Senator representing Imo West in the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, 48 hours from today to apologise to Gov. Hope Uzodimma for the shame his recent, but uncivilized action has brought to the state.
“If after 48 hours, Okorocha fails to apologise to our governor and Imo people, OPOCA will be left with no option, but to initiate a recall process that will aim at exiting Rochas Okorocha from the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,”
Anunobi also placated the state governor, Hope Uzodinma, asking him to not be distracted by the “antics” of the governor. He said that the government was acting in accordance with a gazetted White Paper and in line with its “recovery” move, sealed a property known as Royal Spring Palm located along Akachi Road and purportedly owned by Okorocha’s wife.
“The only option available to Okorocha in the instant case, if he feels otherwise or disagrees with the action of the state government, is to approach the court, rather than invade the said property hitherto sealed by the government with thugs,” he said.
Anunobi said that the group, had on two occasions, intervened by mobilising and appealing to Orlu sons and daughters to support Okorocha irrespective of his “anti-democratic actions”.
He said they did so not necessarily to save Okorocha, but to protect the collective and overriding interest of Orlu zone.
Anunobi said that OPOCA’s mandate was to protect, without compromise, the individual and collective political interest of Orlu sons and daughters both home and in the Diaspora.
“It is, therefore, in view of the foregoing that OPOCA rises to condemn in strong terms the brigandage, thuggery, hooliganism and lawlessness action unleashed against the state by Okorocha and his men on Sunday, Feb. 21,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okorocha, former governor of Imo, was on Monday arraigned before an Owerri Magistrates’ Court for allegedly breaking open Royal Spring Palm sealed by the state government.
He was later released on bail.