The Imo State Government has warned former House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Emeka Ihedioha to stop making unfounded allegations against Governor Rochas Okorocha.
The government urged him to concentrate on his case before the Election Petitions Tribunal, instead of crying wolf where there was none.
Ihedioha was the Imo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the April 11 election.
The former lawmaker reportedly accused the Okorocha of diverting the state’s resources to acquire estates in and outside the country when the workers were owed salary arrears.
But in a statement in Owerri, the state capital, the governor’s Chief Press Secretary Sam Onwuemeodo urged Ihedioha to stop disrupting the peace.
The statement said: “Ihedioha is not the only Imo man or the only Nigerian who ran the governorship election and lost. Imo State cannot stop existing because he failed in an election. He should face his case at the Election Petitions Tribunal like other candidates in other states and stop talking as if he is still on election campaigns.
“He should also stop insulting the governor as if he derives pleasure from doing so. He had run for the governorship and he has failed or refused to respect the governor on seat and the office.
“It is also unfortunate that a man who had been in the House of Representatives for 12 years and Deputy Speaker of the same House for four years, and who is expected to know the efficacy of respecting political office, like that of the governor, was taking delight in abusing his governor without provocation.
“Ihedioha’s party, the PDP, governed the state for 12 years and could not renovate one school and Imo people did not accuse them of stealing the state’s funds. He has the audacity to accuse a man who had done in four years what the PDP could not do in 12 years of stealing the state’s fund.”
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