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That the governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas “AKPUOLA GI”
Okorocha is a FULL TIME practitioner in the act of hypocrisy is no longer news,
what is news is the fact that he has some level of FEAR IN HIM, which is good
to hear.
When I heard, a few hours ago that one of the most popular
stretch of roads in Owerri, the state capital of Imo State, Maria Assumpta
Avenue has been renamed hypocritically to Muhammadu Buhari Road, I wasn’t shocked
because we who are from Imo State know exactly how our erratic governor
behaves, so, nothing takes us by surprise anymore, as he could wake up one
morning and rename Imo State to Rochas Okorocha State.
What surprised me was the immediate response by both the
governor and his sycophantic Aides who came out to dispel the news, after a
huge outcry by the people condemning his very erratic behavior towards
governance in Imo State.
A little finding by Vanguard recalls that
Assumpta Avenue, with the Zip Code 460211, stretched from the old Library
Roundabout, Okigwe/Wetheral Roads, to Assumpta Cathedral, Control Post. It exposed
also that following the establishment of banks along the Assumpta Avenue, some
residents, including motorcyclists, started calling part of the Avenue, Bank
Road.
A staff of one of the banks, who spoke to Vanguard on strict
grounds of anonymity, said that most of the banks bear Assumpta Avenue as their
official address. He stressed that “it is this Avenue that Governor Rochas
Okorocha has sadly changed to Muhammadu Buhari Road”.
Reacting also online, Agunwa Emeka Nzeribe, who claimed to be a
chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, and a Catholic faithful from
Oguta, said that the action of Okorocha in renaming the Assumpta Avenue is
unacceptable, but quickly added that “we must treat it with caution”. He
wondered why Governor Okorocha should not have opened an entirely new road and
name it after the President, like the former Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim did
on Musa Yar’Adua Road.
“He is no longer loved by Imo people and he is playing to the
gallery to ensure that he wins the favour of the Presidency to enable him
install a preferred candidate as his successor. We should ask ourselves what
made him stop the unveiling of the remaining statues moulded in New Owerri,”
Nzeribe said.
Continuing, the Catholic faithful recalled that everybody in Imo
State knows this road as Assumpta Avenue, until recently when banks took over
both sides of the road, from Douglas Road Junction, which became known as Bank
Road.
As his days, Mr. Nzeribe says, are numbered, I would employ all
Imolites to tarry a while in order not to jeopardize chances of the desired
change Imo people are yearning for in 2019.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Information, Erodit Professor
Nnamdi Obiaraeri in a statement defending the governor says that the Assumpta
Avenue stays.
According to the Commissioner, the installing of a road sign
suggesting a rename of the Assumpta Avenue was an oversight and is highly
regretted.
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