It
has come to the knowledge of the Office of the Deputy Governor of Imo State,
the contemptuous diatribe contained in a press release issued by no other a
person than the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Imo State, Mr. Sam
Onwuemeodo published on page 5 of his Whitepaper of Friday, August 10th,
2018 edition, paragraph 7, where he declared that the Office of the Deputy
Governor is vacant since the occupant of the said office has already been
impeached.
It is on record that Mr. Onwuemeodo in
his recklessness in trying to weep more than the bereaved did not stop at this,
he went further to declare Mr. Ekenze Calistus the Deputy Governor of Imo
State. He further stated that Mr. Ekenze’s swearing-in will surely take place
as soon as the court order is vacated.
Our worry, certainly, is not how our
Governor’s Media Manager chose to do his job, which apparently must have been
in accordance to the description of his duties, but the impression the careless
statement would have made in the minds of unsuspecting Imolites and Nigerians
at large.
We wish to state categorically that it
is contemptuous for Governor’s Media handler to lie over a court verdict and
worse still take such lies to the public spheres.
For the umpteenth time, we wish to
remind Onwuemeodo and his co-travelers that the incumbent Deputy Governor of
Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere, never sought an order of the court to stop a
swearing-in ceremony the Calistus Ekenze. The Deputy Governor as a man who
believes in Rule of Law rather than take laws into his hands over the rascality
of some of the agents of government, had approached the court of competent
jurisdiction through his Counsel, Chief Ken Njemanze (SAN) for a redress over
constitutional breaches on the said impeachment process.
There was an Originating Summon with a
suit number How/565/2018; Eze
Madumere V Chief Judge of Imo State and 9 others with another motion on notice
for interlocutory injunction, challenging the constitutional breaches vis-a-vis
the said impeachment procedures which were observed in breach.
In a
court sitting on July 30th, 2018 in High Court 8, Imo State High
Court, presided by Hon. Justice Benjamin Iheka, after adopting submissions of
the Counsels representing the Speaker and members of Imo State House of
Assembly, Attorney-General of Imo State with the presence of one of the
panelists, a court order was granted restraining the Chief Judge, Speaker, Imo
State House of Assembly, 7 man panel of inquiry from any further action in
connection with impeachment procedure against the Deputy Governor until the
determination of the matter before it.
May we remind Onwuemeodo that his lying
tongue and misrepresentation of facts is not only subjudiced but very
contemptuous.
Again while we appreciate opinions of
legal luminaries and other authorities whose take on the matter have largely
remained consistent with the spirit of the law of the land and the
constitution, we call on the general public to disregard Onwuemeodo’s mischief
borne out of malice and periodic hallucination.
The Deputy Governor, Prince Madumere
will continue to conduct himself decorously with high level of civility. He has
vowed to, not only to remain steadfast but to also use his wealth of experience
towards building Imo of collective dream and uplifting the living standard of
the populace.
We wish to assure the citizens of the
State that Prince Madumere has vowed to assiduously towards the enthronement of
justice, equity and fair play as conceived by our fore-bearers so as to create
Imo where brotherly love, peace and tranquility reign supreme.
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