The lawmaker who has been engrossed in a battle with the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha over his gubernatorial ambition has accused the governor of being the brain behind the kidnap attempts on him.
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In a statement he personally signed and made available to DAILY POST on Sunday, he explained that the kidnappers who were in Police uniform blocked him while he was driving to the venue of the meeting, before some villagers intervened.
“There was an attempt by some thugs to kidnap me on my way for some crucial meetings in my senatorial district on Saturday. I saw people, I am not sure if they are real Policemen or not, blocking my convoy, telling me that the governor and the commissioner of Police wanted me in Owerri.
“I asked if they knew who they were talking to and they said yes. I asked if they were arresting or inviting me, they said it was an invitation.
“I told them if it was an invitation, they should drop the letter and go but they refused. They blocked me on all sides. It wasn’t funny.
“A night before that day, in one of the meetings, the governor boasted that I will not be available during the primaries and cognisance of that statement, I asked if they had come to make real the threat by the governor.”
“When they were not behaving themselves, the community people, by the market square where we were apprehended came out in their number to confront them, that was how they left.”
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The lawmaker also explained how thugs invaded the meeting he was billed to attend, saying that the Chief of Staff to Governor Rochas Okorocha on domestic Affairs revealed that to him.
“Besides the siege on my convoy and my attempted kidnap, hoodlums also attacked the venues of the meetings I was meant to attend.
”I was supposed to attend three principal stakeholders meeting ahead of the governorship primaries, one in Orlu Central District, another in Okigwe Central District and the last one in Owerri Central District.
“The venue for the Orlu district was attacked by an arrangement according to findings by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the governor on domestic Affairs.
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