Governor Theodore Orji was again booed and
pelted with sachet water on Tuesday at Onu-Imo
market at the boundary between Abia and Imo
states.
He was on his way to Owerri Airport en route
Abuja, when traders, who heard the siren of his
motorcade, trooped out to the road, armed with
bags of sachet water. They acted like residents in Aba known as the Enyimba city. They pelted the motorcade
with sachets of water, jeered and booed him,
shouting, “Onye-oshi vote, Onye-oshi vote, T.A. Onye-oshi vote”
meaning one that steals votes.
Orji was suspected to be travelling to Abuja to
pressurise the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to have the state’s
controversial governorship election already
declared inconclusive, work in his favour.
The angry traders alleged that Orji and his PDP
had stolen the mandate freely given to the
governorship candidate of the masses’ party, All
Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
They stated that Orji had shown desperation to
become a senator of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, hoping that he will fall like a pack of
cards at the tribunal no matter how hard he
might try. The traders insisted that he was
rejected by his people during the poll.
They further
accused him of forging figures he allocated to
himself through some compromised INEC officials.
Some of the traders, including Chinedu Nwankwo,
James Orakwue and Kingsley Maduagwu, said it
was worrisome that Governor Orji and his son,
Chinedu, could be wasting billions of public funds
on INEC to win their elections as legislators and
impose their surrogate on the people, when
workers and pensioners were owed several
months of salaries and pensions.
They said: “The billions of naira being lavished by
this heartless family is the money meant for the
development of Aba and Abia, which Orji
abandoned, as well as the payment of salaries of
workers and pensioners. God will one day bring
Orji to judgment, in or out of office. “He must
answer for his inhumanity to the people of Abia,
non-indigenes, traders, teachers, doctors and
medical personnel, whose destinies he has toiled
with for eight years of his administration.”
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