It was a happy day for the Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly,
Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu on Sunday 17th February, 2013 at Obowo
Council Area Headquarters Otoko where many illustrious sons and
daughters of Okigwe zone in an umbrella body of a socio-cultural Union
known as Odimma Okigwe gathered and condemned the recent impeachment
threat to the Speaker by the opposition party in the state.
Meanwhile, the occasion which lasted about 3 hours was graced by the prominent
members of Odimma Okigwe included Dr. E.J.K. Onyewuchi (President
General), Senator C. Agunanne (Deputy President General), Prof. Ezeadi
O. Ezeadi (Secretary General), Mrs. Lolo Anamekwe (Women Leader) Hon.
Mrs. Anyanwu, Chief Tony Black, Engr. Onwuka, Engr. Ifeanyi Ukachu,
Hon. Ngozi Ogbue, Chief Kaodichi Anamekwe (Chief of Staff to the
Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly), HRH Eze R. U. Okonkwo amongst
others. The union passed a vote of implicit confidence on the Speaker
on the heel of a motion moved by Prof. Ezeadi.
In a remark, the president general of the union, Dr. E. J. K.
Onyewuchi pointed out the laudable achievement of Speaker Uwajumogu
especially in his key position to enact a law for establishment of
Turkish University among other giant projects in Okigwe Zone adding
that the political cabal trying to unseat the speaker remain the enemy
of the Okigwe Zones political struggle.
Briefing Newsmen shortly after the event, Rt. Hon. Benjamin
Uwajumogu described the gesture as the third tremendous things that
have recorded in the history of his life through which he noted that
the first one was the day he was elected the Speaker of the House and
the second was the day his people (Okigwe Zone) crowned him with a
title “Ogbuhuruzo”.
Speaker Uwajumogu noted that the opposition were envious of the
ongoing good governance in the state and wants to
destabilize it. He expressed disappointment over the previous
administrations in Imo State adding that Okigwe Zone has duly taken
its own political slot in the state but would blame Ohakim’s
administration which spent N480 billion in 4 years without even
pointing at one giant project cited at Okigwe during the
administration.
Rt. Hon. Uwajumogu further debunked the allegation that he was
recently arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission
(EFCC) adding that such allegation was a cheap blackmail purported by
the detractors to poison the minds of Imolites. He stated that the
anti graft agency only visited his office to probe “illegal laws” but
could not succeed as no one except Court of Law reserves the right to
interpret legal or illegal law adding that no action taken by the
speaker can be queried by anybody but shall be reviewed by the House
of Assembly which is the Self-correcting enterprise and not
