The last has not been heard about the bitter war between Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra State. The Chief Press Secretary to Imo State governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo has issued a statement lambasting the Anambra State governor: “The latest media reports including national newspapers of Friday, February 3, 2017 had quoted Obiano as saying he was “so busy with issues of governance, providing qualitative service and abundant democracy dividends and has no spare time for unnecessary politically motivated distractions.”
“Governor Obiano came up with this volte-face after he launched unprovoked media attacks against Okorocha. And, allowing Obiano to tactically withdraw from an unwarranted media war he declared, without apologising to Okorocha and, without publishing his achievements as the governor of Anambra, for almost four years to show good leadership, is totally unacceptable to us.”
“We make bold to ask for an unreserved apology from him because with the way he reacted to such an innocent comment, one could see he harboured malice towards Okorocha. We appreciate the concern of some Igbo leaders and groups who had called for truce between the governors. Such Igbo leaders should also reason with us that it calls for concern when someone unreasonably declares war against you.”
“Governor Obiano must have also forgotten that he was the one who initiated the so-called ‘politically motivated distractions’. It is also difficult to explain why a governor that has governed a state with high IGR for almost four years and with lean workforce is finding it difficult to publish his achievements, at least, to show that he is a good leader of his people and on the basis of that, he would be asking for second term.”
“The common logic is that if Obiano fails to publish his achievements, it means he has nothing to display and the interpretation of that development is that he has lost the moral justification to ask for a second tenure. And Anambra people should take cognizance of that.
“For Okorocha, he is in a hurry to use the challenge thrown up by the Anambra State Governor to show-case to Nigerians and the world at large about two thousand verifiable projects executed by his administration in various parts of the state including the new city of Owerri. And we know that all Obiano has done in his state for almost four years now cannot be equated with two flyovers built by Okorocha.
“The Imo State governor while publishing his achievements, would also want to showcase his profile to the world that either Obiano didn’t know him or he was not truthfully briefed about him or he was austere with the facts. The profiles of the two governors would have shown that while Obiano has first degree in Accountancy and Master Degree in Business Administration of the University of Lagos, Okorocha has bachelor’s degree in Law of the University of Jos, Master degree in Law also of University of Jos, Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Benue State University, Advanced Diploma in Law, Security and Conflict Management. So in terms of education, Okorocha is more educated than Obiano. And as a responsible government, we had restricted ourselves from talking about his personal life.”