Sources said Irona, the immediate past Deputy Governor under Emeka Ihedioha, was arrested on Wednesday.
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Recently, I read in the social media a poorly scripted tale, stating that the Imo State police command had procured a warrant of court to arrest the former Deputy Governor over allegations that he refused to return some official vehicles used in his days as the Number Two Citizen of the state.
The report had claimed that the former deputy governor was “intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and taken to the EFCC headquarters for interrogation.”
The Deputy Governor disclosed this while receiving a delegation of the Public Interest and Development Law, a section of the Nigerian Bar Association, in his office on Tuesday
The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona, says people of the two Oil Producing Local Government Areas of Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta in the state are not criminals.
Ihedioha stated this while receiving a delegation of the leadership of the Federal Fire Service, led by the Controller General, Dr. Ibrahim Liman, who paid a courtesy visit at the Government House, Owerri over the weekend
In a three-page address read by the Chairman of the Council, Prof. Francis Dike (SAN), during a courtesy visit to the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona, the group accused the former Governor of leaving a legacy of Garnishee Orders and indescribable looting of the state treasury.
The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona, says former Governor Rochas Okorocha is fighting the present administration of Chief Emeka Ihedioha with ill-gotten wealth.
The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Gerald Alphonsus Irona, on Saturday visited some communities in the state ravaged by flood, assuring them of the determination of the State Government to bring succour to them.
The Imo State Governor, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, says his cabinet will continue to be dominated by professionals from different fields, even as he pledged his readiness to partner professional bodies and members of the organized private sector in ensuring genuine development in the State.
The state’s Deputy Governor, Hon. Gerald Irona, made the position of the Government known.
Following the prompt intervention of the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Gerald Irona, all the parties in the renewed violence in Ohaji, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State at the weekend accepted to end every form of hostility unconditionally.
The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Gerald Irona, says the State Government decided to set up an investigative panel to look into the management of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission following reports of mismanagement of the Commission by previous administrations.
The approval followed a recommendation by the Management of Imo State Water Corporation, considered by the State Executive Council.
Former member of the House of Representatives and Deputy Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 elections in Imo State, Rt. Hon. Gerald Alphonsus Irona, has said Imo State will adopt Nigeria’s Freedom of Information Act (2011), if the PDP is elected in 2019.