Governor of Imo state Senator Hope Uzodimma has vowed to arrest and prosecute Labour Party governorship candidate in the November 11, 2023 governorship election, Senator Athan Achonu before the election.
The governor made the vow while being endorsed by a group in a function organized by the Imo Social Contract Group (ISCG) led by Dr Fabian Ekwueme.
According to the governor, the Labour Party candidate went and fraudulently obtained a court order certifying that he had built primary healthcare facilities in the 27 local government areas of the state and claimed millions of dollars, lamenting that the money he siphoned was being deducted at source from the Imo state allocation by the federal government.
He further described the act as anti-developmental, misleading and criminal punishable by law.
However, in a swift reaction, the Director, Media and Publicity of Senator Athan Achonu Governorship Campaign Council, Chibuikem Diala said that the governor may be hallucinating when he made the statement, adding that Senator Achonu did over 70% of the job in 774 local government areas of the country.
He added that the contract was initiated by the senator in 2006, when he was representing Imo North (Okigwe zone)in the Senate and that the contract was an ALGON funded contract approved by the then federal government.
He further said that the facilities were visible and functional in Owerri Municipal, Isu LGA and even in Omuma, the hometown of the governor.