Imo State govt denies having a hand in Uche Nwosu’s arrest

Imo State government has denied claims in some quarters that it masterminded the commando-like arrest of 2019 governorship candidate, Uche Nwosu.

Nwosu was arrested when police storm the St Peter’s Anglican Church Eziama Obaire in the Nkwerre Local Government Area of the state on Sunday, shooting sporadically. Many churchgoers were injured in the incident while Nwosu was forced into a waiting vehicle.

Nwosu, a son-in-law to a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, who spoke to journalists in Owerri, said the plan was to assassinate him.

The politician, who chronicled how he was arrested in church, taken to Enugu airport and boarded a charted aircraft to Abuja, said that the governor used his Chief Security officer and other security operatives attached to the state government house to arrest, humiliate and possibly eliminate away.

He said he was stripped half-naked, and handcuffed on the orders of the state governor.

But the state government refuted Nwosu’s allegations that Uzodinma had a hand in his arrest by the police.

The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, in a statement, stated, “This is a malicious concoction, that can only be made up by a drowning man. It is pitiable that rather than go into a sobering reflection on his arrest, Nwosu, upon his release on bail, was in a hurry to allege without any proof that his arrest was masterminded by Imo State Government.”