The former Governor of Imo State Senator Rochas Okorocha has said that he is yet to be served by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on the alleged N2.9bn fraud case.
This is contrary to the story in the social media and conventional newspapers that the anti-graft agency has taken the former governor to court on the case.
Okorocha reacting through his Special Adviser Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, dismissed the information completely, saying that as at the time EFCC’s report came out, he was yet to be served on the case.
He described the EFCC report on the case as breaking news to him.
He said: “As at the time the EFCC breaking news came and as we write, I have not been served. Why an hour after Okorocha’s world press conference on his ambition to contest the 2023 presidential election?”
“There is also existing court order on EFCC for the enforcement of Okorocha’s fundamental human rights.”
According to him, “they had wanted to inject a virus into that wonderful and exciting outing and the reason, they had waited for the event to come to an end before the nauseating breaking news.”
He said: “We are not shouting that this witch-hunt would stop, but for the world to see and know how the government in Imo, has been executing its anti-Okorocha plot or acting the anti-Okorocha script to the best of its ability and that of its superintendent.”
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Okorocha described it as surprising that the “same method adopted in the invasion of St. Peter’s Anglican church Eziama-Obaire and abduction of Uche Nwosu on Sunday, December 26, 2021, has similarities with the stampede or commando method adopted in the reported Monday, January 31, 2022, EFCC case against my person.”
He said in the case of Nwosu, they waited until the outing church service for the late mother had started before invading the church with the attendant sporadic shooting and the abduction of Nwosu.
While in the case of the EFCC matter on Monday, January 31, 2022, according to him, they waited until the end of the World Press Conference.
He said: “As we write, I am is yet to be served on the EFCC case. But those who knew about it were in a hurry to give it out as breaking news.”
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