– The Archbishop of the Enugu province,
Anglican Communion, Rev Emmanuel
Chukwuma, has criticised Governor Okorocha
over his persistent attacks on Senator Ike
Ekweremadu
– He complains that Okorocha wants to
replace Ekweremadu with lacks experience
– The reverend says Governor Okorocha will
be disowned by the Igbo people if he does
not apologise to Ekweremadu
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state ran
into trouble with a section of Igbo speaking
Nigerians who have threatened to disown
him over his plot to remove Senator Ike
Ekweremadu as deputy Senate president.
According to Daily Post, the threat to disown
Okorocha was made by the Archbishop of
the Enugu province, Anglican Communion,
the Most Rev Emmanuel Chukwuma on
Thursday, August 4, when members of the
National Association of Nigerian Students,
(NANS) visited the archbishop at his place in
Enugu.
Chukwuma, criticised Governor Okorocha
over his persistent attacks on Ekweremadu,
and called on the governor to apologise to
the senator for harassing him.
The cleric complained that the APC
candidate Okorocha wanted to replace
Ekweremadu with lacks experience.
He said: “ The person who is going to the
Senate under the APC is coming just for the
first term; whether you like it or not, he must
come and pay homage to Ekweremadu.
“How can you as a Governor who is just
sponsoring one person, for the first time be
threatening that you will remove Ekweremadu?
It is not possible.
“What I am saying is that Okorocha should
apologize and he should know that he is either
an Igbo man or a bastard Igbo.
“He is a bastard Igbo if he does not apologize
and we are ready to disown him because he is
not in the same page with us as an Igbo man.
If he was sent by agents from outside, they
have failed.”
Recall that Okorocha, who is the Chairman
of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
governors’ forum, has vowed to remove
Ekweremadu and replace him with a senator-
elect from Imo state.
Okorocha made the resolve at a meeting the
APC governors had with President Buhari
and other stakeholders in the Aso Rock
presidential villa on July 26, Tuesday.
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