Ripples
The former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday asked the state police command to release his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, or take him to court in the next 24 hours.
The ex-governor, who addressed journalists at his Spilbat mansion in Owerri, said police operatives who arrested the former governorship aspirant during a church service at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Eziama Obieri in the Nkwerre local government area of the state, embarassed his wife, and first daughter, Uloma, during the incident.
Police operatives had stormed the church in their numbers and shot sporadically inside the premises before whisking Nwosu to the command headquarters in the state capital.
Okorocha, who is representing Imo West in the Senate, claimed that Governor Hope Uzodinma deceived the Inspector- General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, into desecrating the church with the arrest of his son-in-law.
Okorocha said Uzodinma has not hidden his hatred for him and the members of his household, adding that the state government wanted to frame Nwosu because of its poor performance…
