Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, has raised an alarm over an alleged plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to initiate impeachment proceedings against him.
The newly inaugurated governor who came a distant fourth in Imo governorship election in March 2019, and was surprisingly handed over Imo governorship seat by a ruling of Supreme Court, alleged that PDP was secretly planning to incite members of the state House of Assembly to initiate an impeachment process against him.
He spoke through a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser, Oguike Nwachukwu.
“We know the game plan of the PDP because we are aware that they have been secretly inciting Imo State House of Assembly members to think of how to impeach the governor. So they are trying to rake up anything they can, even falsehood, to incite the public,” the governor or said in the statement.
In the 27-man Imo House of Assembly, PDP controls 13 seats, AA 8, APGA 6, while Uzodinma’s APC has nil.
Uzodinma, while commenting on reports that the Federal Government has failed to make any comment on his alleged $ 12m fraud case as well as a travel ban on him, warned against propagating falsehood.
He stated that he has already briefed his lawyers, who he said were studying the publication for appropriate legal action, adding that the publication, which tried to raise dust about him on old allegations, had been long settled and dismissed as non-issues.
Uzodinma insisted that the allegation was a sheer mischief and malice borne out of frustration because “they know very well that the assets declaration allegation was fallaciously contrived by the disgraced former Chairman of the Presidential Panel on Recovery of Public Properties, Mr. Okoi Obon-Obia which has been thrown out by the court”
