By Onyekachi Eze
It is not the best of times for Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha as difficult challenges stare his face with about five months to quit office.
Okorocha’s problems began last week when the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC, led by the Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole sent Senator Hope Uzodinma’s name to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as the authentic Imo APC governorship candidate.
This however unsettled Okorocha who had vowed to deliver his son in-law, Uche Nwosu as a successor by 2019.
Strong indications that the governor has troubles bedeviling him at moment emerged during the week when security operatives suspected to be men of the Nigerian Police and the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC entered into Owerri for undercover operations.
This newspaper learnt that the operatives who landed Owerri from Abuja have been given a unit to operate from in the meantime.
It was not clearer who their target is for now but suspicion is rife that it could be arrowed towards Imo State Government where Governor Okorocha is the pilot.
Further suspicion that the anticorruption agency and men of the Nigerian police are after the governor opened on Tuesday when Okorocha went to court in Jos, Plateau State asking among other prayers an order restraining the aforementioned including the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General not to invade his personal property located anywhere in the country.
The governor who may be suspecting that the EFCC, IG of Police and AGF are after him over how funds of Imo State is being managed further asked the court to declare that only the members of the Imo State House of Assembly has the right to ask for account of the state treasury.
The Imo first citizen is the court case pending in the Jos Federal High Court between Okorocha (Applicant), Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, The Commissioner of Police Plateau State, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice demanded for million naira damages.
According to an online report monitored by Trumpeta Newspaper, Governor Okorocha took the IG, CP of Plateau State, EFCC and AGF to Court over an alleged invasion and ransacking of his Jos residence.
The governor, who filed his case before Justice Musa Kurya of the Jos Federal High Court, is demanding for N1.25 billion as general damages for the action.
He asked the court to order the respondents to pay him the one billion Naira as general damages, and N25 million as cost of instituting the case.
Okorocha, through his counsel, Barr. Markus Saleh (SAN), claimed that the respondents invaded his home in Jos, Plateau State and held his family members hostage without a Court warrant.
In his prayers, the embattled governor demands that the action be declared illegal, null and void following by the way the act was executed.
In what appears to be a twist of fate, Owelle Okorocha sought for an injunction declaring that only the Imo State House of Assembly has the authority to probe and reprobate his government.
