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Okorocha, wife, to forfeit assets to EFCC

Imo, Okorocha disagree over alleged ₦50billion fraud

June 27, 2019 12:45 am

The Imo Government has accused the Rochas Okorocha administration of carting away ₦50 billion of state assets. It listed them to include 60 vehicles, spoons, beddings and window curtains.

The Emeka Ihedioha government pledged to reward whistle blowers willing to supply information that could result in the recovery of stolen public assets. Briefing journalists yesterday in Owerri, Chairman of Recovery of Moveable Assets, Jasper Ndubuaku, accused the immediate past governor of leaving office with all cars in his convoy, including bullet proof Sports Utility Vehicle (SUVs) worth more than N100 million each as well as outrider machines and other automobiles.

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Tribunal set to deliver judgment on Okorocha, Izunaso case

Okorocha accuses Ihedioha of destroying his legacies

June 23, 2019 12:56 am

The immediate past Governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has accused Governor Emeka Ihedioha of destroying all he built while in office.

Ihedioha has, however, faulted the allegation, saying it was incorrect and lacking in facts.

The governor’s Special Assistant, Research, Ogubundu Nwadike, said the Governor was always mindful of his actions.

In a statement, yesterday, signed by Okorocha’s Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, the former governor flayed invasion of the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Ogboko in Ideato South Local Government Council of the state (Okorocha’s ancestral home) by hoodlums, who allegedly brutalised the student nurses …

Court summons Okorocha over alleged breach of peace

Eventually, INEC issues Certificate of Return to Okorocha

June 12, 2019 1:52 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will appeal the judgment directing it to issue a Certificate of Return to former Governor of Imo, Rochas Okorocha.

Okorocha received his certificate of return as winner of Imo West Senatorial District election held Feb. 23.

INEC made the disclosure in a statement issued by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC on Tuesday in Abuja.

He said the commission issued the certificate to Okorocha in compliance with an Abuja Federal High Court that directed it to do so.

Okoye said the issuance of the …

Okorocha: INEC to meet today on Certificate of Return

Okorocha: INEC to meet today on Certificate of Return

June 11, 2019 1:43 am

Except by a miracle, former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha will not be part of the inauguration of the ninth National Assembly today.

He will not be among those to elect the leadership of the Senate to which he won election early this year but has not been given the Certificate of Return.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it will meet today to look at the court rulings on the former governor’s Certificate of Return.

The ninth National Assembly will be inaugurated today and the election of leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives is also expected …

I was hated, called “Okoro Hausa” because of APC – Okorocha

EFCC kicks against ex parte order to stop Okorocha’s probe

May 21, 2019 11:24 pm

Following an ex parte order stopping the ongoing investigation of the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas, the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) has petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court Justice Abdul Kafarati.

The anti-graft agency has asked the NJC and Justice Kafarati to review the conduct of the trial judge, Justice Taiwo O. Taiwo of the Federal High Court on alleged obstruction of investigation of some high profile cases.

Justice Taiwo had granted a similar order staying action on the investigation of the Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Also, Saraki’s counsel, …

PDP is looting Imo, not me, says Okorocha

April 12, 2019 11:26 pm

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has fired back at the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), accusing the party of embarking on “systematic and violent looting” of the state.

The PDP and some concerned Imo citizens had accused Okorocha and some members of his family of embarking on looting spree of some state government-owned property.But responding through a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, yesterday, the governor said the PDP had adopted various unconventional tactics to plunder the state’s assets.

The statement said: “We want to inform the general public and Imo people in particular that …

Tribunal set to deliver judgment on Okorocha, Izunaso case

Labour gives Okorocha 7-day ultimatum to pay salaries

April 10, 2019 7:23 am

The organised Labour in Imo State comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council (PSNC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Tuesday issued a 7-day ultimatum to the state government to pay March 2019 salaries owed to state Civil servants and all the outstanding pension arrears.

The Labour, in a letter to the state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and obtained by The Daily Times said that all efforts to ensure that the state Accountant-General pay the March 2019 salaries yielded no result.

The letter jointly signed by the state chairman of the NLC, Comrade Austin Chilakpu, …

Tribunal set to deliver judgment on Okorocha, Izunaso case

Okorocha sues INEC over Certificate of Return

March 20, 2019 9:00 pm

Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, has applied at the Federal High Court Abuja, for an order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue him with a Certificate of Return as the Senator- elect for Imo West Senatorial District.

Though the returning officer for the Imo West Senatorial District election had declared Okorocha who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress winner of the poll, he was however not presented with a Certificate of return by the electoral body as his name was
not listed among the senators-elect who were presented with their certificates of return by …

There is a plot to cripple me politically – Gov. Okorocha

March 14, 2019 10:31 pm

IMO State Governor Rochas Okorocha believes he was denied the Certificate of Return as the senator for the Imo West Senatorial District to cripple him politically ahead of 2023.

He also said that the “gang-up” against his preferred governorship candidate in the March 9 election, Uche Nwosu of the Action Alliance (AA), was part of the grand plot.

The governor accused the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Imo State of acting a script which he described as being cruel.

Speaking with reporters at the Imo Governor’s Lodge in the Asokoro Area of Abuja, Okorocha said he was sure that denying him …

Imo Poll: Uche Nwosu won the election landslide – Okorocha

March 13, 2019 11:20 am

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has declared his son-in-law and candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Uche Nwosu won Saturday’s governorship election in the state.

“I say so because going by the actual calculation, the person that won this election is Ugwumba Uche Nwosu.

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Okorocha urges IGP to disregard Ihedioha’s petition

Governor Okorocha blows hot, threatens to expose APC

March 3, 2019 12:07 am

Following his suspension  from the All Progressives Congress over anti-party activities by the party hierarchy led by Comrade Adams Oshiomole, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, is threatening to expose the corruption the party is involved in if he is not recalled soon.

Okorocha warns, “I’ll expose how APC rigged 2019 Presidential election and I’ll join PDP in court to prove it.”

The governor’s comment is going far to prove that the Presidential elections in deed were a sham.…

Okorocha, Okechukwu react to suspension over disloyalty

March 2, 2019 12:13 am

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has criticised his suspension and moves to expel him, his Ogun State counterpart, Ibikunle Amosun, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani and the Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr. Osita Okechukwu by the All Progressives Congress National Working Committee (NWC), led by its National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, saying Oshiomhole was determined from the onset to destroy APC by throwing caution to the winds and playing 2023 politics.

Okechukwu saw his suspension as victory for bigotry, while the Ogun State chapter of the party described the suspension of Amosun as …

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