2019: Okorocha sacks SSG

Posted By: Chris Njokuon: March 19, 2016In: News, Saturday MirrorNo Comments

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Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, yesterday sacked the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Sir Jude Ejiogu. Although the statement signed by the Principal Secretary to the Governor, Dr. Pascal Obi, did not attach any reason to the sack, it was gathered that the dismissal was not unconnected with the race for 2019 governorship election in the state. The statement however, directed the former SSG to hand over all government property in his custody to the permanent secretary. Sir Ejiogu, who represented Governor Rochas Okorocha at both the commissioning of Shoprite on Wednesday and the convocation dinner of Imo State University at Concorde Hotel on Thursday, did not have the premonition that he would be sacked the next day (Friday).
It was gathered that before the sack, the ex- SSG, who started as the Chief of Staff had been having running battle with some individuals in the governor’s cabinet over his ambition to run for the governorship seat in 2019. However, Saturday Mirror gathered from a reliable source close to the Government House that the former government scribe was sacked following his stake in the Shoprite deal which the source stated the governor was angry about. But the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the former SSG, Ikenna Onuoha, said that the sack was politically motivated. “If there was anything the former scribe had done, they would have stated it in their press statement. The man was not indicted of any misdeed.” It would be recalled that the former Deputy Governor, Jude Agbaso, a kinsman to Sir Ejiogu, who also hails from Owerri North Local Government Area was also removed from office