2019:ROCHAS OKOROCHA PLANNING TO INSTALL SON IN LAW AS GOVERNOR..APC CHIEFTAIN ALLEGES

Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and former member of the House of Representative, Hon. Uche Onyeagocha has accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State of an agenda to rule the state for a third term by proxy by ensuring that his son in-law and Chief of Staff become the next governor come 2019.

Speaking at the occasion of the 2017 World Press Freedom Day held at the NUJ Secretariat yesterday, he accused him of running for third a term in 2019 hiding under his son in-law, Uche Nwosu.

He said that already Okorocha had created and set up a campaign platform known as Ugwumbba Movement using the son in-law through which he wanted to achieve his ambition, saying such campaign platform being coordinated by his son in-law had taken over the functions of the state ministry of Information and Strategy.

Onyeagocha said: “Uche Nwosu his son in-law has no power to dream to run for governorship position of Imo State.”

While advising Okorocha to focus on his presidency, he called on him to resign his position as governor for his son inlaw if he wanted him to be governor But in a statement, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Engr Obinna Nshirim condemned what he described as inflammatory statement made against the governor by the former federal lawmaker, saying whoever eyeing the governorship seat should not look beggarly in nature.