The Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday reacted to Monday’s attacks on Owerri Correctional Centre, and the state Police Command headquarters, said the twin attacks were indications that Governor Hope Uzodimma had failed.
The above disclosure was made at a press conference in Owerri, the state capital, the PDP chairman in the state, Charles Ugwu, urged the governor to stop the blame game and take responsibility.
The PDP chairman stated that the spate of insecurity in the state since December was a proof that the governor had nothing to offer to the people of the state.
Ugwu, who linked the trajectory of the insecurity from Orlu Zone to Okigwe Zone and Owerri Zone, expressed worry that the state was sitting on a keg of a gun powder.
He said, “In his speeches and interviews since after the incident, he has blamed IPOB, the Eastern Security Network, the opposition and God-knows who else. He struggles rather subtly to exonerate himself and his regime of any complicity in the sad incident. What has happened is a catastrophic failure of governance.”
But the governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Print Media, Modestus Nwamkpa, said that PDP was still angry that it was sacked from power through a legitimate means.
Okorocha berates Uzodimma on Imo attacks
However, a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, criticized Uzodimma over his (Uzodimma) comment on the recent gunmen attacks on government facilities in the state.
Okorocha, made this known while speaking with journalists in Jos on Thursday after attending a burial of Mrs Felicia Kaneng, accused the governor of conjuring up false narrative to cover his “incompetence and weakness in managing the affairs of Imo State.
“I don’t think any sane politician can ask anyone to go and attack the police headquarters or correctional facility. I think he (Uzodimma) should stop politicising everything.
“When somebody wants to escape from his own weakness in managing the state affairs, he will blame politicians. Which politicians,” Okorocha, who represents Imo West in the National Assembly, queried.
Okorocha insisted that the attacks on police stations and a correctional facility in the state were products of national poverty and injustice going in Nigeria.
Imo ex-gov behind Owerri attacks – Commissioner
Reacting, the state government accused a former governor of the state of allegedly being behind the incessant attacks on federal and state government facilities in the state.
The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, said the unnamed former governor engaged thugs whom he had earlier granted amnesty to unleash violence in the state to force the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in Imo.
