Imo state Deputy Governor, Gerald Irona has dismissed reports alleging that he lives in a hotel in Owerri since he assumed office and has spent over N1billion on hotel bills describing such reports as false.
Media Director of the defeated governorship candidate of the Action Alliance in the 2019 elections, Uche Nwosu, Mr. Jones Onwusoanaya using a pen name Johnbull Chikwe, had alleged that the deputy governor lives in a hotel in Owerri.
The same report claimed that the deputy governor may have spent over N1billion on hotel bills since the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was declared the winner of the 2019 state governorship election.
Irona, who spoke through his media aide, Walter Duru in a statement said that no one needs any further proof that Rochas Okorocha and his cohorts require mental examination, as only psychiatric patients could contrive such lies.
Duru, who is the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Communication to the deputy governor, said that “during and since after the elections, the Imo State Deputy Governor, Gerald Irona has operated from his Oguta residence.
“Till date, he operates from his home, as there is no official residence for both him and the Governor, Emeka Ihedioha in Owerri, following the wreck of Imo State by the former Governor, Rochas Okorocha.”
“There has never been a time that either the Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha or the Deputy Governor, Gerald Irona lived at Protea Hotel, Owerri or any other hotel.
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They are responsible and decent men and had built very good residential houses, long before being elected governor and deputy governor, respectively.
“The truth is that the eight years of misrule of former Governor Rochas Okorocha took Imo 30 years backward. They almost stole the state to death.
They emptied the state treasury, left behind hundreds of billions of naira local and foreign debts and destroyed all state-owned infrastructures following his failure to impose his son in-law, Uche Nwosu on Imo state.
“They stole everything, even up to pots, spoons and kitchen knives.
A visit to the governor and deputy governor’s official residence shows that no human being can live in such apartments, not to talk of the state number one and number two citizens. They vandalized everything, out of frustration, caused by their rejection by Imo people.
‘Imo people already know that the effect of their rejection of everything Okorocha may have created a gap in the brains of the former Governor and by extension, his rogue aides, who wanted to continue the looting of Imo treasury.”
He therefore, advised the general public to disregard the report, as neither the deputy governor nor the governor live or has ever lived in Protea Hotel.
According to him, while the governor operates from his private residence in Owerri, the deputy governor operates from his Oguta-residence, pending when their official residences are ready.
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