SAN FRANCISCO, February 03, (THEWILL) – The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, on Friday threatened to invoke the “bitter wrath” of “ancient Igbo oracles” on Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State, and his Imo State counterpart, Rochas Okorocha, if they do not desist from hurling insults at each other.
The two South-East governors have been trading insults in the media, accusing each other of incompetence, poor performance and uncouth behaviour. Both men have categorically described each other as not fit to occupy the office they are holding.
Trouble started when Okorocha claimed, during the South-East APC stakeholders meeting in Owerri, that three governors in the geopolitical zone were planning to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Obiano reacted by accusing Okorocha of playing to the gallery, adding that the Imo State Governor has not provided the kind of leadership that would make the Igbo join him in the APC.
Okorocha responded by calling Obiano a ‘clueless’ governor, claiming that Anambra State had retrogressed under its present leadership.
The Imo State Governor also described his Anambra State colleague as an ‘aggressive’ governor who would have done better as a ‘militant’.
Obiano fired back, asserting that Okorocha should keep quiet when serious governors are talking. He also said that, between both of them, the Imo State governor was the one that should be referred to as a ‘motor park personality’.
While claiming to have achieved more in office than Okorocha, the Anambra Governor stated that the policies of his Imo counterpart were mostly media flukes.
Wading into the altercation in a statement issued on Friday by its leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, MASSOB described the conduct of Obiano and Okorocha as “embarrassing” to the Igbo.
The statement titled: ‘Stop this madness or…’ stated that, “The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra has fumed over the utterances of Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State and his Imo State counterpart, Governor Rochas Okorocha, in the last three days.”
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