{"id":918604,"date":"2022-01-22T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/22\/uzodinma-does-not-have-what-it-takes-to-govern-in-a-democracy-okorocha\/"},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:29:14","slug":"uzodinma-does-not-have-what-it-takes-to-govern-in-a-democracy-okorocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/22\/uzodinma-does-not-have-what-it-takes-to-govern-in-a-democracy-okorocha\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzodinma Does Not Have What It Takes To Govern In A Democracy \u2013 Okorocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_835342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-835342\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-835342 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/oKOROCHA-AND-uZODINMA-1-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"Uzodinma Does Not Have What It Takes To Govern In A Democracy \u2013 Okorocha\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Okorocha, Uzodinma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rochas Okorocha, a former governor of Imo State and senator representing Imo West senatorial district, has stated that Gov Hope Uzodinma lacks the ability to govern a people in a democracy.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed Imo\u2019s government is a sham of what a state government should be.<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha made the claim in a press statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, and circulated to journalists in Owerri on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He said\u201d Imo State and her people have not known peace since Chief Uzodinma became governor. They have only been hearing stories of killings, arson, kidnapping, invasion, rituals. What they never witnessed when the righteous ones were in power or on the throne.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0\u2018Imo Govt Has Become An Embarrassment,\u2019 Okorocha Mocks Uzodinma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Uzodinma and his government have become itching experiences Imo people won\u2019t forget in a hurry. The government has made Imo people see their ears with their eyes. And the daily prayer on the lips of every sincere Imo man or woman has been, \u201cmay this nauseating cup run over<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring my governorship for 8 years, militancy was a big issue in the oil-producing areas of Ohaji, Egbema and Oguta. I didn\u2019t begin to supervise the killings. As a leader of his people, I employed and deployed diplomacy and got that problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut under Governor Uzodinma, the killing of Imo people seems to have become the rule, instead of the exception. And the government is not regretting the killings, but only labouring to justify them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder my administration, the opposition was encouraged to function unhindered. Every part of the state was alive and bubbling. Today, no part of the state is functioning. They are after the opposition. And they are not humble about their cluelessness and ineptitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okorocha, Uzodinma Rochas Okorocha, a former governor of Imo State and senator representing Imo West senatorial district, has stated that Gov Hope Uzodinma lacks the ability to govern a people in a democracy. He claimed Imo\u2019s government is a sham of what a state government should be. Okorocha made the claim in a press statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}