Browsing: Rochas Okorocha

Justice Mohammed fixed the date after Okorochas’ counsel, Oba Maduabuchi, SAN, moved for an adjournment on the ground that the head of the staff in his chamber, Emeka Okoye, died recently.

This is in order to enhance patriotism, peaceful coexistence, build stronger institutions and nation.

Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed held that granting the order during various challenges to the court jurisdiction in the matter will not be in the interest of justice, Daily Post has reported.

The first-class traditional ruler also canceled the installation ceremony which was earlier scheduled to hold on Sept. 19.

The judge also ordered that the Eastern Palm University, Ogboko belonging to the Rochas Foundation to be forfeited permanently to the state government.

Okorocha also asked Justice Ahmed Mohammed to restrain the defendants from investigating him or implement the recommendations of the seven panels set up to probe him while he served as the state governor between June 2006 and May 2019 pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

Well, the word is not regular English language, neither is it my creation. The copyright belongs to former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, who created something being fast accepted in English from the Igbo word, Iberibe, meaning foolery, trickery, or stupidity. It is the act of being deceitful or untrue.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tola Badejo, who briefed journalists in Owerri, the state capital, on Wednesday, said that the decision was taken to safeguard the lives of the students and staff and as well as the properties of the varsity.

This was disclosed by an aide of the former Governor on Thursday.

The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren said on Tuesday that Okorocha was arrested in Abuja.

If anything, the lesson from the 2019 elections, which every APC leader and member should be reminded, is that APC was defeated in Rivers, Zamfara, Bauchi, Adamawa, Oyo and many other places by aggrieved APC leaders who worked against candidates or leaders of the party as a result of internal disagreements around candidate selections for Governorship of these states.

Okorocha spoke with journalists in Jos, Plateau State on Thursday after attending the burial of Felicia Kaneng, and after a press conference in Owerri by the Imo State Commissioner for Information, Chief Declan Emelumba, accused him of being behind the attacks.

The Commissioner for Information, Chief Declan Emelumba, made the allegation on Thursday at a news conference in Owerri.

What started as a sitcom starring Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom and his Bauchi State counterpart Bala Mohammed in a bizarre farmer-herdsmen exchange, later zig-zagged, morphed, and swept across the country in an expanded theatre of the absurd. At least four other governors have now been engulfed in the flame.  

Speaking to newsmen, the state Commissioner for information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, said that Okorocha, who now represents Imo West at the Senate, was released by the police on “medical grounds.”

Ibekwe and 13 other loyalists of Senator Okorocha, were accused of conspiring among themselves to disobey a lawful order issued by the state by removing the seal of the state government and entering into the sealed premises of Royal Spring Palm Hotel and Apartments belonging to Okorocha.

As at press time, Okorocha was being held at the Command Headquarters in Owerri

The state House of Assembly had on March 28, 2013, impeached Agbaso as the deputy governor of the state on the allegations that he collected N458m and red label drink as bribes from a construction firm, J- pros.

The Imo State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Simon Ebegbulem, who levelled the allegation on Thursday, said the equipment were found in a warehouse owned by Okorocha

Okorocha disclosed this on Friday while briefing newsmen on some of the resolutions of the meeting of South East stakeholders in Enugu.