By CHIDI NKWOPARA

OWERRI — Imo State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sir Eze Duruiheoma,SAN, has taken a swipe at Imo State House of Assembly for failing to take a holistic view of the circumstances that led to the eventual impeachment of former deputy governor, Sir Jude Agbaso.

Duruiheoma, who made his feelings known during an interview in Owerri, also reasoned that the House ad-hoc panel and their decisions had credibility problem.

“The panelists ought to have gone the whole hog to verify Joseph Dina’s evidence. That the panel did not do this compromised their credibility.

“Moreover, when you are acting out somebody’s script, you will not know where to add your own,” he said.

“It is scandalous, for instance, for anybody to approve payment of a staggering N1.3 billion to a contractor without benefit of certificates that the job had been successfully executed,” Duruiheoma said.

“If they had taken some serious steps to properly investigate the alleged bribe, they would have arrived at what they have now seen,” Duruiheoma said.

The Imo PDP boss recalled that it was the same Agbaso that the administration used to denigrate Chief Ikedi Ohakim on the allegation that he stole N62 billion from the state coffers.

He described as “scandalous” that the state government approved and paid a staggering N1.3 billion without properly verifying if the job was done or not before payment.“Sir Agbaso was the man that announced with glee that Chief Ikedi Ohakim stole N62 billion of public fund.

“Today, he has been accused of collecting N458 million bribe and I am sure he now feels the pain of being falsely accused,” Sir Duruiheoma reasoned.

When reminded that Agbaso’s  accuser, Mr. Joseph Dina, had been dragged to court, Duruiheoma said it would not help all those that tried to bring shame to the Agbaso family.

“How can anybody explain the state government’s sudden interest in trying to bring Joseph Dina to justice?