Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on
Saturday punched a protocol officer who refused
to allow him sit on a chair reserved for the
Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, at the
80th birthday celebration of former vice
president, Chief Alex Ekwueme, in Enugu.
The incident occurred 20 minutes before most of
the invited guests arrived.
We gathered the seat was reserved for the host
Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime and Obi. The
Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi,
represented Chime who is still out of the country.
The protocol officer, Mr. Ifeanyi Onukuba, who
works with Obi, was shocked at Okorocha’s
action and before he could recover from it, a
police officer attached to the Bomb Disposal Unit
in Anambra State, Mr. Felix Alumona, pushed
Okorocha when he was removing the tag bearing
Obi’s name from the seat.
Our correspondent observed that Okorocha’s
Aide de Camp, Gabriel Onu, immediately
pounced on Alumona, hitting and tearing his
uniform, while other security details attached to
the Imo governor joined in the scuffle.
Sensing that the matter was beginning to attract
people, Okorocha quickly waded in, saying, “Hey,
please stop the fight! Let us not fight over an
ordinary seat. I will share the seat with Peter
Obi.”
Minutes after the fracas, Okorocha’s aides
grumbled saying, “Why is it that anywhere we go,
they always reserve a special seat for Obi. Is
Okorocha not the leader of Ndigbo?”
When Obi arrived, he squeezed himself in the
couch, sitting between Onyebuchi and Okorocha.
-SUNDAY PUNCH
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