Ex-Governor Okorocha Escapes Assassination

Former Governor of Imo State, Sen. Rochas Okorocha escaped assassination on Friday after unidentified hoodlums launched an attack on his convoy, leaving a security aid killed.

The attack took place along Ihube community on the Okigwe- Enugu expressway. The axis had in recent times become a hotbed of kidnapping for ransom as gunmen operate freely, causing residents to flee from their homes

Okorocha, who represented Imo West in the 9th Senate while speaking on the attack on Sunday during the birthday ceremony of Imo PDP governorship candidate, Samuel Anyanwu, said one policeman was killed even as he expressed sadness over the attack.

At Amaimo in the Ikeduru Local Government Area home of Mr. Anyanwu, the former governor said that the killing of the cop was “unfortunate.”

The former lawmaker said he was returning from the neighbouring Enugu state after attending the burial ceremony of the wife of a former senate president, Ken Nnamani when his convoy came under attack.

Okorocha said that the governor of Enugu state, Peter Mbah had released vehicles and security men to take him and his team to Imo state for the burial ceremony of mother of Emeka Ihedioha, the immediate past governor of the state.

He disclosed that it was after he had finished attending the funeral ceremony at Ihedioha’s hometown in Mbaise and the convey had dropped him at his Spilbat mansion in Owerri and was heading back to Enugu that they were attacked.

He also said that he was embittered because he was safe in Enugu only to be attacked and a security agent killed in his own state.

He said, “I am angry. I am very angry. I am angry because I spent two days in Enugu and nothing happened to me but it is in my own state that the convoy released to me by the governor of Enugu state (a very good man) to attend the burial ceremony of Ihedioha’s mother at Mbaise that was attacked and one policeman killed.

“What is happening in Imo state makes me angry. Many people who are running to govern Imo state are not capable but I have seen one man who the cap fits. When it is time I will speak.”