A group known as Global Association of Concerned Imo Youths (GACIY), convened by Collins Ughalaa KSC, has written to the Inspector General of Police over the planned press briefing today by Rochas Okorocha. The press release made avaliable to newmen in Owerri today reads thus:
Mr. IGP,
We write on behalf of 10year old Somtochukwu Ibeanusi, Laz Anyanwu, Ugonna Ozurigbo, Emeka Ihekwoaba and all others marthyred during the Ethelbert Okorocha regime to ask you to stop an obscenity scheduled to hold this morning at the International Conference Centre, Abuja at least for the sake of public decency if nothing else.
Mr. Okorocha is billled to address a World Press Conference by 10 o'clock today. As usual, Sir, he will put on a show. He will talk big, he will pretend to be pious, to be burderned by the state of the land. He will repeat all manner of platitudes and even invoke a new catchphrase, buzzword or mantra. But he is fake.
Asides being a fake man, he has weighty allegations on his neck that he has failed to discharge. As we write, his ill-acquired estates in Imo, having been so identified by a competent judicial panel of enquiry, are being seized one by one and restituted to their rightful owners. These ill-acquired estates include contiguous hectares of real estate in choice locations, universities, communual ancestral lands, public facilities, markets, luxury apartments, machinery, factory equipment and others too numerous to state here.
Sir, is it not a brutal irony that while Mr Okorocha has imported cronies to the ICC Abuja to cheer him on, a similar 'Imo International Conference Centre, IICC' which he built under his watch as governor collapsed into itself right before his very eyes? Most wretchedly, this is the state of nearly all public infrastructure built under the Okorocha regime. This is criminal breach of trust of the worst kind, Sir. Having run Imo ragged, he wants to do same to Nigeria? That's impossible.
Sir, it deserves repeating that Mr. Okorocha is a fake man. He knows full well that pigs will fly before he will ever become president of Nigeria. His real intention therefore is to join the presidential and negotiate his way out of prosecution. If this happens, posterity will never forgive us. The blood of all those martyred by his acts and ommissions will haunt us.
This is why we humbly request, dear IGP, that you disperse this provocative gathering as allowing it will mean that you have endorsed the most menacing affront on the sensibilities of Imo people, and Nigerians in general.
The only press conference Okorocha qualifies to give is one in which he is on his knees offering atonement for his innumerable iniquities against Ndi Imo.
May God help you, Sir.