Reacting to insinuations that Governor Hope Uzodinma was behind the attack, the Imo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, said Ugochinyere does not pose any threat to the state to warrant any form of attention by the government.
The Imo State Government has denied reports that it sent unknown gunmen to attack and destroy the residence of the spokesman of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere.
Recall that gunmen had over the weekend burnt down Ugochinyere’s house and vehicles. Also, three persons were killed in the attack, including the CUPP’s spokesman’s uncle.
Reacting to insinuations that Governor Hope Uzodinma was behind the attack, the Imo State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, said Ugochinyere does not pose any threat to the state to warrant any form of attention by the government.
He asked the CUPP’s spokesman to look inward to know who sent the gunmen to attack him, describing Ugochinyere as a queer and perverted individual with a track record of “cantankerous conduct” who “picks enemies the way magnet picks pin.
According to Emelumba, the House of Representatives candidate for Ideato Federal Constituency has lived a life of falsehood and violence and was afraid of his shadow.
He said: “Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has been in politics for more than 40 years and has never been linked to any kind of violence.
“Ugochinyere is so inconsequential with microscopic importance in the political firmament of the state to warrant any attention, not to talk of torching his house.
“It is unfortunate and pathetic that in his quest for attention, Ugochinyere does not hesitate to drag the state government into his habitual, messy, tissue of lies.
“A man who is at loggerhead with his party national chairman, a man who is working with anti-democratic forces to cancel the upcoming elections, and a man at loggerhead with some of his kinsman should know when nemesis is after him and stop crying wolf.
“His ordeal is certainly not from Imo State Government. From the so-called Omuma voters register magic to all his insults on the governor, and the current one, all of them are mere falsehood aimed at attracting undue attention to himself.”