As at press time, Okorocha was being held at the Command Headquarters in Owerri
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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.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in his ruling, dismissed the objection by the Imo State Government to the proposed amendment.
Both Amosun and Okorocha were unable to produce their own successors as governors as their anointed candidates were forced out of the All Progressives Congress and eventually did not win the election on the new platforms adopted
Okorocha spoke in a statement on Friday by his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo
This was disclosed by the Port Harcourt Zonal Head of the EFCC, Usman Imam, when he spoke with newsmen on Thursday.
The workers, numbering at least 300, have sustained the protest for about 11 days to press home their demand for the reversal of the pay cut by the Imo State Government
Former Imo Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has hailed the Supreme Court judgment which declared Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress, winner of the 2019 governorship election in Imo.
The Chairman of the panel, Dr. Romanus Ezeogu, stated this on Wednesday during the submission of the report to Governor Emeka Ihedioha
A statement issued in Owerri by Chibuike Onyeukwu, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, stated that Ihedioha announced the re-christening at an occasion to mark Amaechi’s 90th birthday in Owerri
Okorocha sttaed this in his tweeter handle, @realRochas, and he expressed disbelief that the Nation will go to the extent of using his name to “break news”.
SP Ikeokwu Orlando, the Police Public Relations Office in Imo State, in a statement issued to the press confirmed that he was arrested in the early hours of Saturday following a petition filed by an upcoming rap artist, ‘M2’
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had on August 22, 2019 secured the interim forfeiture of the property from a vacation Judge, Justice A. T. Mohammed of Federal High Court, Port Harcourt
The Chairman of the panel, Justice R.A. Ada, said that the appeals by Senators Osita Izunaso of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and Jones Onyereri of the Peoples Democratic Party against Okorocha lacked merit.
A media report had claimed that aides of the former governor had disappeared from the state ostensibly to avoid being arrested by personnel of the anti-corruption agency.
Okafor made the call while addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja after he was sworn-in as member of the green chambers at the plenary.
Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Friday ordered a former Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha, and his family not to sell or alienate any of the properties that were the subject of an interim order of the court pending the conclusion of investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
According to a press release issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha said that the president’s victory is for all “lovers of democracy in and outside the country as it signifies a light at the end of the tunnel for Nigeria’s democracy”.