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Certainly, these are not the best of times for the former Governor of Imo state, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, his woes first started when the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole denied his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, the gubernatorial ticket as a consensus candidate of the party in Imo state without the usual primary election, after collecting well over half a million dollars from Nwosu, who was then the Chief of Staff to Okorocha, and incidentally, the husband of his first daughter, Uloma.
Okorocha who before then had a good relationship with Oshiomhole, and contributed immensely to him becoming the party chairman, thought that it would be a very smooth transition of power from him to his stooge, Nwosu, was highly disappointed when Oshiomhole dealt him the first blow which was literally in obedience to the order of the Nigerian Northern Caliphate not to allow Okorocha build such political dynasty. Okorocha and his son-in-law fought gallantly but unfortunately, the odds were already against them, and they could no longer get the endorsement of APC.
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Swiftly, Okorocha pushed his son-in-law into Action Alliance party, and formidably fought for the gubernatorial race, again, failure hit him, and Nwosu really hard, this time after spending nearly ten billion naira. Imo indigenes, completely rejected Nwosu, and anything that represented Okorocha, and voted massively for the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Honourable Emeka Ihedioha, whom they voted against in 2011 for Okorocha to emerge as the Governor.(But the second tenure, he rigged himself back into power) That defeat by PDP not only hurt the ego of Okorocha but a clear prelude to the crashing of his proposed political dynasty.
Okorocha, as cunning as a fox, had cleverly schemed his strategy of replicating what Asiwaji Bola Tinubu did in the South-West, where he now controls the political structures of the South-West geopolitical zones not just as a Mafia boss but Capo Di Tutti Capo. Okorocha’s schemes would have been pretty successful like Tinubu’s, given the deteriorated Nigeria’s polity, which has given rise to unemployment among the youths, hunger, and extreme poverty in the country, if he had not been greedier than Tinubu, and restricted the loot from Imo state’s coffer to him, and his family. Okorocha only rewards loyalty in his family thus beyond that, he has nothing to do with it.