A 2019 governorship candidate in Imo State, Uche Nwosu, on
Tuesday, said that his arrest on Sunday at St Peter’s Anglican church Eziama
Obaire in the Nkwerre Local Government Area of the state was sanctioned by the
state governor, Hope Uzodinma.
Nwosu, a son-in-law to a former governor of the state,
Rochas Okorocha, who spoke to journalists in Owerri, on Tuesday, claimed that
the plan was to assassinate him.
The politician who chronicled how he was arrested in church,
taken to Enugu airport, and boarded a chartered aircraft to Abuja, alleged that
the governor used his Chief Security Officer and other security operatives
attached to the state government house to arrest, humiliate and possibly put
him away.
Nwosu claimed that he was stripped half-naked, handcuffed on
the orders of the state governor.
He said that he had no hands in the insecurity in the state,
saying that the young man who accused him in a viral video of giving him money
to escalate insecurity in the state was asked to implicate him.
Nwosu advised Uzodinma to eschew bitterness and concentrate
more on governance than politics.
He said that those who arrested him, invaded the church,
jumped to the altar, disrupted the ongoing sermon, and shot indiscriminately in
the church.
Nwosu, in an emotional-laden voice, said those who “abducted
me were masked, hijacked me in church and manhandled me; they ordered me to lie
on the floor in the vehicle and one of them rested one of his legs on my head.”
Nwosu added, “When they drove off, they started making calls
in Hausa, and unknown to them I understand Hausa. They were telling one Shaba,
who is the Chief Security Officer that they have got me. At Umuaka, they
stopped and ordered that I should get down. At that point, I thought they were
to assassinate me. They bundled me into another vehicle and they drove off.
“When we got to Owerri, three other vehicles drove straight
to the government house and the one carrying me drove towards Okigwe Road, and
I asked them where they were taking me to but they never responded to me. They
drove towards Okigwe and stopped. At this point, I thought they wanted to
assassinate me. They asked me to remove my cloth, handcuffed me, snapped me,
made a video, and sent it to the governor’s CSO.
“We continued until we go to Enugu airport. We waited for
about 90 minutes before a chartered flight arrived. We boarded and we landed in
Abuja. We moved to force headquarters and we did interviews. They accused me of
sponsoring insecurity in Imo State. I want to thank the IGP who intervened and
ordered my release.”
Responding, the state Commissioner for Information and
Strategy, Declan Emelumba, said neither the governor nor the state government
had a hand in the arrest of Nwosu.
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