Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, yesterday,
asked President Gooluck Jonathan to call his Political Adviser, Alhaji Ahmed
Gulak, to order so as not to stoke a political war in Imo State and stall the
flow of its development strides.
The governor, who spoke through his Information
Commissioner, Mr. Chinedu Offor, and the Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Ebere
Uzoukwa, was reacting to the claim by Gulak that Okorocha had committed an
impeachable offence by not reinstating the deposed 27 local government chairmen
in the state, as ordered by the Appeal Court last month.
Gulak had while receiving the 27 local government
chairmen sacked by Okorocha, who were in his office to submit a letter of
protest to the President in Abuja on Monday, said the governor’s action was an
impeachable offence.
The commissioner, who spoke in Abuja, described Gulak’s
statement as outrageous and unbecoming of a man who has no stake in Imo State
and warned him to stop heating up the polity unnecessarily.
“Imo people were really shocked and disappointed to
hear such a reckless statement from a man who has no business in the politics
of Imo State and we want him to tell the world whether he was speaking for
himself or was sent by Mr. President.
“The matter for which he wants the governor impeached
is already before a court of competent jurisdiction and we want the President
to sanction Gulak before he commits further blunders that could jeopardise the
government and the people of Nigeria,” Offor said. The Special Adviser on Media
to Okorocha asked Gulak to advise Mr. President to recall Justice Ayo Salami,
as directed by the Judicial National Council, JNC, before extending his counsel
to other leaders in Nigeria.
“He who goes to equity must do so with clean hands and
I think it is always good for one to remove the speck in his eyes before seeing
the log in another’s eye.
“We see the call by Gulak for Okorocha’s impeachment as
an attack by another attack dog of the Presidency and an assault on the people
of Imo State House of Assembly and its people.While calling on Gulak to retract
the inciting statement within 24 hours or face the wrath of the government, the
SA however said that Okorocha would not be distracted by the antics of the
PDP-led government to abandon the good work he has started.