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…Okorocha: Gulak should be in jail
More details have emerged in the All Progressive Congress governorship primaries controversy that triggered the factionalization of the party in Imo state.
The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) committee for the
Imo State 2019 governorship primaries, Ahmed Gulak, Sunday night revealed that
the immediate past governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha offered him a
$2million bribe to deliver the party’s governorship ticket to his anointed
aspirant, Uche Nwosu.
On what transpired between him and Okorocha, Gulak said: “I have no
regret of any action I took during the primaries I conducted in Imo State. I
don’t expect Okorocha to be happy with me, and I did not go there to make him
happy anyway.
“I went there to do my job and I
did it to be best of my knowledge and ability and I came notwithstanding the
tempting offer I refused. I can walk the streets of Imo State including Owerri
with my shoulders high.
“I may not be perfect as a human being but I did not go there to make
him happy. Somebody who offered me up to $2 million to give certificate of
return to his nominee but I turned it down.
“How many people can turn such offer down. I would have given him the
certificate and pocketed my money because it is money that you don’t go to
court for but my conscience will not be clear. For now, my conscience is very
clear. I can move round the streets of Owerri unmolested,” he noted.
Reacting to Gulak’s claims,
Okorocha’s spokesman, Sam Onwuemeodo said the former governor was not given to
bribery and as such dismissed the assertions of Ahmed Gulak as blatant lies.
His statement read in part: “The
truth is that Alhaji Gulak was sent to Owerri to ensure the destruction of APC
in Imo and by extension, in the South-East. And he achieved that purpose to a
large extent. Otherwise, he would not have been, abinitio, sent for such a
sensitive task, knowing his porous character and one month after he had left
the PDP for APC. He came to Imo with a bad script and he acted his part, with
the PDP spirit still alive in him.”
He
stressed that under normal scenario, Gulak should have been serving deserving jail
terms because what he did in Imo was sabotage against the nation and her
democracy.
“He should have been arrested,
put on trial and jailed, to serve as a lesson to elements like him”, he said. Juvthorix
