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Senator Okorocha speaks on working against Igbo lawmakers in Reps
Speakership race
Senator
representing Imo West District in the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, has
denied involvement in the intrigues that denied Southeast the House of
Representatives speakership.
Recall that Emeka
Nwajiuba, lawmaker for Ehime Mbano/Ihiteuboma/Obowo federal constituency, had
accused the former governor of working against Igbo lawmakers in the
speakership race.
Reacting in a
statement yesterday, Okorocha’s Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, not
only denied the allegation but queried how Nwajiuba arrived at the conclusion.
The statement read:
“Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba of the Accord Party (AP) has, for some days now, done a
lot of publications in the media accusing the former governor of the state and
the senator representing Imo West, Rochas Okorocha, of being responsible for
the loss of the speakership of the House of Representatives by the Southeast.
“Nwajiuba, however,
did not state how he arrived at that faulty conclusion, except his contention
that the former governor did not allow primaries to take place for the state
chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 election.
“He did not also
explain how, because it was the national headquarters of the party that handled
the primaries of APC in the state, both the one Ahmed Gulak truncated and the
second exercise.”
The Senator said it
was unimaginable for him to have supported Nwajiuba for position of House of
Representatives’ Speaker.
“It would have been
unimaginable to believe that the president would adopt a member of Accord Party
for such position, no matter the relationship, and even when his matter is at
the Appeal Court.
“So, accusing
Rochas Okorocha of being behind his failure to succeed with his name-dropping
strategy this time was just a cover-up,” the statement added.
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