THE BATTLE OF TWO GOVERNORS… WILLIE OBIANO GOES FOR BROKE AGAINST OKOROCHA
Like petty lovers of strife that shriek and sweat in pigmy wars, Willie
Obiano, the Anambra State governor, and his estranged friend, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, won’t stop bickering until either of them gives up and takes the moral high ground. It’s often said, bedbugs sting not from spite but because they desire to live. Could it be the same with the two governors? Is Okorocha’s aggressive political onslaught against Willie borne out of a curious desire to inflict hurt and neuter him or a towering passion to serve the state? Willie flares high and low like a wicker lamp. The incumbent governor flaunts a temperament that combusts like flame of the rattan work caught in a rainsquall. According to him, Okorocha who cannot pay workers and pensioners has nothing but “destructive ideas” in his approach to governance. “If a governor that has constructed countless number of roads and bridges, embarked on several rural electrification programmes, constructed uncountable number of schools, and health facilities as well as rid the entire Anambra State of crime and criminality, is being termed clueless by Okorocha, then there must be another meaning for clueless.
“Okorocha’s claim that there is a general impression that Chief Willie Obiano is an aggressive governor, who should have done better as a militant than as a governor, is laughable and it is clear to Nigerians who really is a motor park personality between them. Obiano has always been known and accorded the respect of a complete gentleman.” Indeed, Okorocha is an example of what a leader should not be. Who is he to teach the virtues of leadership ideas and service to Governor Obiano?
The pair’s verbal altercation commenced when Okorocha claimed that three governors in the south-east zone would soon defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC).