By Chinonso Alozie

Owerri—Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, said,   yesterday, that Bishop of Enugu, Anglican Diocese, Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, is a member of a political party.

Chief Rochas Okorocha

Okorocha through a release to newsmen in Owerri, by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, was apparently reacting to a statement credited to the Bishop, accusing Okorocha’s administration of wasteful spending of state resources.

According to the release, “We have read in the media and indeed, with reservation statements credited to the Bishop of Enugu Anglican Diocese, Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma accusing Governor Rochas Okorocha of wasteful spending of state fund and maltreating workers and pensioners. He then called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the governor to order.

“Honestly, we do not find it easy reacting to claims by notable men of God like Bishop Chukwuma, but in this instant case, the Bishop had spoken not only as a politician but as a card-carrying member of a political party and not as a Bishop.

“Reason being that politicians are most of the times associated with blackmail, propaganda and marketing of falsehood, but ordained ministers of God are believed to be agents of truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

“Governor Rochas Okorocha’s achievements as governor in less than seven years have exceeded or superceeded the achievements of all the administrations before him since 1976 when the state was created, put together.”