Former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, says he is being probed by seven different panels set up by the Imo State Government.
He made the claim in a statement on Thursday by his spokesman, Sam Onwuemeodo.
Okorocha said the Hope Uzodimma administration is seeking to blackmail him and his family, adding that the state government was disobeying an order of a Federal High Court in Abuja by continuing to carry out its probe against him.
“Unfortunately, and we want to complain that, in spite of the directive, the judicial panel headed by Justice BC Iheaka has continued to sit. It sat on Thursday, July 9, 2020, a day after Justice Mohammed gave the directive,” he said in the statement.
“And all these are in desperation to get at Okorocha and the family. Otherwise, a judge ought to know that once a matter is before a court every other action on that matter should be suspended.
“We want to also make it clear that Okorocha has never been against his probe. But only taking exception to using the probe issue to diminish or discredit the more than one thousand verifiable projects of his administration, for the eight years he was governor. Or using the probe stuff to blackmail him and the family or conduct needless media trial.
“Okorocha’s contention is that while the 2nd defendant, the Attorney General of the state, had written petitions to the EFCC against him, and the Commission has been investigating all the issues in the petitions, the same issues are the ones being probed by the seven panels also set up by the same state government.
“And to Okorocha, and any sincere person, this is improper and questionable.”
But Uzodimma has repeatedly said he is not out to victimise anyone by reviewing all financial transactions of the state during the last three administrations.
