The former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday announced the plan by politicians and other concerned citizens to form a new political movement in Nigeria. Okorocha, who disclosed this to journalists in Abuja, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) was hurriedly formed in 2014 to take power from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
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A former Imo State governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha, says since other zones of Nigeria have produced presidents, the South-East zone too should be allowed to produce a president in 2023. He, however, said irrespective of the ethnicity of the country’s next president, what was more important was to have someone who could solve the problem
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Senator Rochas Okorocha representing Imo West Senatorial district and a former governor of the state, yesterday, challenged the Justice Benjamin Iheaka led judicial commission to publish the reports asking him (Okorocha) to return N106 billion. Okorocha spoke in Owerri through his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemedo, adding that doing so would enable people to
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The Justice Benjamin Iheaka Panel of Inquiry, which investigated the contracts awarded by ex-Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha between 2006 and 2019, yesterday, asked those who awarded the contracts and contractors to refund N106 billion to the state government.The panel claimed that they did not follow due process while awarding the contracts. Speaking while submitting
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Former Governor of Imo State and the Senator representing Imo West senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to imbibe the spirit of “hire and fire” mechanism, saying there is no point keeping incompetent people in government. Okorocha stated this when the Integrity Group, a forum of non-National
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Former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has said that the inability of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to give President Muhammadu Buhari structural support was responsible for the non reflection of the President’s good intentions to Nigerians.Opening up on the problems bedeviling the party, Rochas urged President Buhari to adopt hire and fire
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A former governor of Imo State , Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday congratulated the people of Edo State for fighting against alleged injustice in the just -concluded election won by Governor Godwin Obaseki on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party . Okorocha, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress , who represents Imo West
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Former Imo state Governor and Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, may have suffered a big blow in his supremacy battle and control of Imo APC structure with Governor Hope Uzodimma, as his political aides and associates on Monday dumped him to pledge loyalty to the Governor and his own APC faction in
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Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, on Sunday disclosed how he disconnected with his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha. The IMO state governor, who addressed the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in the state during an enlarged caucus meeting held at the Government House in Owerri, said his problem with Okorocha started when he refused to dissolve the
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A panel set up to investigate the finances of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission has submitted its reports to the state governor, Emeka Ihedioha. The panel headed by Romanus Ezeogu accused former governor Rochas Okorocha of diverting over N6b that accrued to the commission during his administration. Ezeogu said, “The panel findings
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A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State on Friday, ordered the forfeiture of Dews of Hope Hospital, a 200-bed state-of-the-art hospital, which was allegedly built at a cost of N1.5 billion by an aide to the former governor of Imo State and a serving senator, Rochas Okorocha. The hospital located at the heart of
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