Governor Rochas Okorocha
Governor
Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on Saturday punched a protocol officer who
refused to allow him sit on a chair reserved for the Anambra State
Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, at the 80th birthday celebration of former vice
president, Chief Alex Ekwueme, in Enugu.
The incident occurred 20 minutes before most of the invited guests arrived.
We learnt that the
seater was reserved for the host Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime and Obi.
The Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, represented Chime who is
still out of the country.
The protocol officer, Mr. Ifeanyi
Onukuba, who works with Obi, was shocked at Okorocha’s action and before
he could recover from it, a police officer attached to the Bomb
Disposal Unit in Anambra State, Mr. Felix Alumona, pushed Okorocha when
he was removing the tag bearing Obi’s name from the seat.
Our correspondent observed that
Okorocha’s Aide de Camp, Gabriel Onu, immediately pounced on Alumona,
hitting and tearing his uniform, while other security details attached
to the Imo governor joined in the scuffle.
Sensing that the matter was beginning to
attract people, Okorocha quickly waded in, saying, “Hey, please stop
the fight! Let us not fight over an ordinary seat. I will share the seat
with Peter Obi.”
Minutes after the fracas, Okorocha’s
aides grumbled saying, “Why is it that anywhere we go, they always
reserve a special seat for Obi. Is Okorocha not the leader of Ndigbo?”
When Obi arrived, he squeezed himself in the couch, sitting between Onyebuchi and Okorocha.
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