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January 23, 2014

Community leader slams Okorocha over rift with Obi

Community leader slams Okorocha over rift with Obi

*Imo state Governor, Okorocha

BY VINCENT UJUMADU

AWKA—THE altercation  between Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and his Imo counterpart, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, continued yesterday as a community leader in the state, Chief Paulinus Anagboso, described the latter as suffering from inferiority complex.

Okorocha had accused Obi of not doing enough to promote the interest of Ndigbo, since he assumed office as governor of Anambra State seven years ago.
But Anagboso, who spoke in Awka, expressed surprise that somebody occupying a position of responsibility as governor of a state would speak without circumspection.

He regretted that such statements were capable of truncating Igbo unity which, according to him, responsible Igbo leaders have been championing.
He said:  “It is regrettable that when other geopolitical zones are forging central unity, people like Rochas Okorocha are creating enmity among Igbos.

“Does he realize at all that internal unity is a prerequisite for solidarity and once a people are destroyed from within, they are finished?”
Anagboso, who recalled that during the launching of the distribution of books by Sir Emeka Offor Foundation at Oraifite, the same Okorocha commended the people of Anambra State for their industry and even described them as the pride of the Igbos, wondered what had gone wrong.