Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo
state, has called for the arrest of Ahmed Gulak, chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in the state.
Hope Uzondima, a serving senator,
and Uche Nwosu, son in-law to Okorocha, were announced as winners in the primary
which was fraught with controversies.
The national working committee
(NWC) of the party had cancelled the primaries and disbanded the panel
Gulak had left the state under
controversial circumstances, forcing the Imo chapter of the APC to declare him
missing.
He said nine members of the panel
were abducted on the orders of the governor, an allegation Okorocha denied in a
statement issued on his behalf by Sam Onwuemeodo, his spokesman.
Below is Okorocha’s statement:
We call for the arrest and
prosecution of Alhaji Gulak because there is punishment for his anti-democratic
action and his false claim of kidnap attempt. We must begin to tell men like
Gulak and Senator Hope Uzodinma that it cannot be business as usual.
Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, former
Political Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan and of course, the
Chairman of the disbanded Imo State Governorship Primary Election Committee had
told the media on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 that he fled Owerri by 4am because
agents of Governor Rochas Okorocha had attempted to kidnap him and three other
members of the 12-member Committee. The media had reported what he told them.
If you ask me, men like Alhaji
Gulak can’t build a nation. They not only constitute serious threat to our
promising democracy but also danger to this great nation. Giving men like him
national assignment like the one he was sent to Imo State to do was just
licensing him to blackmail the nation and put our democracy to ridicule. And
there are certain lies or actions a man who had been the Political Adviser to a
former President of the nation should have overgrown, no matter the
temptation.”
The childish tale of his
attempted kidnap was just an afterthought. He knew he didn’t act well his part
and was only trying to see how he could come out from the tight corner he had
boxed himself into.
The man called Alhaji Ahmed Gulak
flew into Owerri by 12:45pm on Monday, October 1, 2018, being the day slated
for the guber primary. And let him publish his flight documents to prove us
right or wrong. They went straight to the Police Headquarters where they
deposited all the materials for the governorship primary.
After that, the committee members
entered into a lengthy meeting with the candidates, stakeholders, and Heads of
Security Agencies in the State. The meeting lingered till 6:30pm. At the end of
the meeting, he announced that the primary would now hold on Tuesday, October
2, 2018.
And reporters who were at the
Police Headquarters waiting for the outcome of the meeting went and reported
that the Imo primary would now hold on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. At the end,
they went to their hotel to clean up and eat.
With all these activities, the
courtesy call he was to pay on the governor with members of his committee could
not take place till. 8:45pm that Monday. The courtesy call lasted for about an
hour. All said and done, they left the Government House for their hotel at
about 9:55pm.
They lodged at Rockview Hotel
Owerri that shares fence with the Police Headquarters and the other end of the
hotel, the Owerri Prison, with Soldiers on guard. The hotel is also close to
the Government House Owerri with a team of Mobile Policemen on twenty-four
hours duty.
So, the question patriotic
Nigerians should ask Alhaji Gulak is that, if you left Government House by
9:55pm and you claimed you fled Owerri by 4am, and considering the location of
Rockview Hotel where they lodged, then, when and where did the kidnap attempt
take place?
And why should he be kidnapped
when the materials for the primary were kept at Police Headquarters. And of
what value would have his kidnap served anybody since he didn’t have any
material and the primary hadn’t been conducted.
It is now left for Nigerians to
ask him where he got the results for which he declared Senator Hope Uzodinma
winner. In fact, we do not subscribe to people talking about PDP when men like
Gulak who left the party just few months ago act funny. It is a personal thing.
It has nothing to do with PDP. Some people live. Some others exist. Those who
just exist do not have souls, and for them, anything goes.
Ahmed Gulak and Hope Uzodinma had
belonged to Alhaji Modu Sheriff’s faction of the PDP. That is the relationship
between him and Hope Uzodinma. We also believe that those who sent him didn’t
have this information. But even at that, a former Political Adviser to a Former
President should have lived above board.
Do not also forget that a day
before the Primary, Chief Hope Uzodinma who the Court had issued warrant of
arrest against him for issuing billions of naira Dud cheque to a business
partner had also claimed kidnap attempt against his person also by agents of
the State Governor. They must be spirits to be escaping from these imaginary
kidnap attempts. In fact, show me your friend, and I tell you who you are.
Finally, Hope Uzodinma is not a
member APC in Imo State. He claimed to have joined the party six months ago.
Even at that, he does not have any support in any Local Government in Imo
State. We shall be shocked to see him stand in his Local Government, Oru East,
and we see twenty APC members queuing behind him. He does not believe in the
ballot box.
He was one of those who in 2015
labeled Okorocha Alhaji in Government House, Okoro-Hausa and that he was
planning with President Muhammadu Buhari to Islamise Igboland, all because of
APC. And few years after, he has come to cause trouble in the Party and to reap
where he didn’t sow. We do not think it is the right thing. No landlord vacates
his house for an unfaithful and unreliable tenant.
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