Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has said that he could not believe what happened to him and his team when they went to unseal the Royal Spring Palm Estate sealed off by the Imo State government on Sunday.
Recall that Okorocha was arrested on Sunday after unsealing the hotel believed to be owned by his wife, Nkechi.
Okorocha was said to have stormed the estate with his supporters, policemen, soldiers and personnel of National Security and Civil Defence Corps to unseal the estate.
Speaking to Channels Television via a telephone interview on Sunday, Okorocha said operatives of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the Government House watched as thugs destroyed his vehicles.
“I asked them, what is my offence? They said conspiracy and public disorder. So they said it was the governor that directed them, that made a report to arrest me,” Okorocha said.
“The police whisked me into the pickup and brought me to the police station,” he said.
He alleged that a top aide to Governor Uzodinma controlled the thugs and was giving them instructions on what to do.
He alleged that at some point the aide pulled his shirt and held a cutlass while moving towards him. He said he was whisked away at that point.
“He was calling the boys ‘come, come.’ He was in charge and the police were following him. When they arrested me so to say, the SA to the Governor entered the pickup and came to the police station with their own video.
“They were making jest of me that there is only one governor in the state, there is only one immunity that they are going to deal with me. I can’t believe it.”
I don’t understand what Okorocha is complaining about. Is it right for an ex-governor who is supposed to understand the law and its procedures to break into buildings that have been sealed off. It would have been better for him to reach out to the sitting governor to resolve the issues.