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The Imo State government yesterday said it would expose details of how the former governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, threatened to make the state ungovernable for Governor Hope Uzodimma.
It said unless Ihedioha owned up to the leaked telephone conversation, where he made the threat, and apologised, the sordid details of the call would be made open.
Speaking at Arise Television, the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Hon Declan Emelumba, disclosed that Ihedioha made the call between 9:30pm and 10.05pm on Friday, October 14, 2022, to an interior decorator who hails from Ezinihitte council area of the state.
He said Ihedioha, in the telephone conversation, threatened that Uzodimma will never have peace as governor until he vacates the governorship seat for him. Emelumba insisted that the government has, in its possession, the transcript of the call to confront the former governor, if he persists in denying it.
“Unless he owns up to that call and apologises to Imo people for being part of the gang terrorising Imo State in the last couple of years, we shall do the needful by exposing him,” the commissioner insisted.
On Ihedioha’s claim that governor Hope Uzodimma defamed him through a letter he said he never wrote, Emelumba dismissed it as a hoax. He said the former governor has no character or integrity to be defamed, because he was a beneficiary of a filched mandate.
He said: “When he held on to a mandate he never won since he didn’t meet the Constitutional requirements, that’s when he lost his integrity. A man of character would have refused that poisoned chalice.”
The commissioner, however, made it clear that Uzodimma could not have, and will never descend so low as to forge any letter. He urged Ihedioha to channel his energy towards extricating himself from the weighty allegation of sponsorship of insecurity in the state, which he admitted in the leaked telephone conversation with his Mbaise brother.
