“Oshiomhole Is A Noisemaker” – Okorocha

The Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has described the
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, as
a noisemaker.

Oshiomhole had on Saturday said the APC would
report to the Independent National Electoral Commission, governors and
candidates who were distorting messages about the party.

He had also berated some governors for failing to pay workers’ salaries.

Although
Okorocha and Amosun are in the APC, their preferred governorship
candidates are contesting on the platform of different parties, which
have adopted President Muhammadu Buhari as their presidential candidate.

Responding
to the APC national chairman, Okorocha said Oshiomhole as a former
governor of Edo State owed civil servants seven months salary arrears by
the time he left office.

He said the APC national chairman lacked the moral right to contribute to issues concerning payment of civil servants’ salaries.

Okorocha
said instead for Oshiomhole to campaign for the ruling party during a
rally in Owerri, he was busy abusing him((Okorocha).

The Imo
State governor, in a press statement issued in Owerri on Sunday by his
Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, said Oshiomhole was angry because
his preferred APC governorship candidate, Hope Uzodinma, did not have
the clout to win the state for the ruling party.

Okorocha
challenged Oshiomhole to publish his scorecard as Edo State governor for
eight years while he (Okorocha) would publish his achievements as the
Imo State governor.

The statement read, “The National Chairman of
the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, was in Owerri on
Friday, December 21, 2018 for the campaign of Chief Hope Uzodinma, his
preferred governorship candidate for the party, and he insulted and told
petty lies against Governor Rochas Okorocha.

“Adams Oshiomhole
was governor in Edo State for eight years. Rochas Okorocha has been
governor in Imo for less than eight years. We challenge Oshiomhole to
publish his achievements in Edo State for the eight years he was
governor and let Rochas publish his own achievements in Imo in less than
eight years.

“Let Nigerians judge between the two who failed as
governor. If Oshiomhole fails to accept this challenge, we won’t have
any other option than to conclude that he is just a noisemaker.”