{"id":59011,"date":"2018-11-06T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59011"},"modified":"2018-11-06T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T15:23:02","slug":"oshiomhole-blackmailing-me-over-imo-catholics-okorocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59011","title":{"rendered":"Oshiomhole Blackmailing Me Over Imo Catholics \u2013Okorocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Oshiomhole-Blackmailing-Me-Over-Imo-Catholics-\u2013Okorocha.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former Edo State governor Oshiomhole, who distanced the APC from Okorocha\u2019s alleged disrespect for the Roman Catholic community in the state,  apologised to the Archbishop of the Owerri Catholic Archdiocese, Most Reverend Anthony Obinna for the governor\u2019s \u201csin\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But Okorocha, who has been at loggerheads with Oshiomhole over the Imo State APC primaries, in which his son-in-law Uche Nwosu lost the 2019 governorship ticket to Senator Hope Uzodinma, said in  a statement  by   his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo,  his party\u2019s  national chair\u2019s  apology  to Obinna was  \u201ca deliberate blackmail\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read in part,  \u201cIn responding to that deliberate blackmail, we won\u2019t toe the part of Comrade Oshiomhole. We recognise the fact that he is the National Chairman of a ruling party,  which President Muhammadu Buhari is the leader, and we would not, therefore, throw caution to the wind like he did, when he was abusing or attacking governors in his party as if he is the publicity secretary of any of the opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he had asked questions, he would have discovered that members of the Catholic Church in the state constitute the bulk of Governor Okorocha\u2019s supporters,  especially at the grassroots.  They voted for him overwhelmingly in 2011 and 2015 respectively. And he has never taken their support for granted.  He has shown gratitude in several ways which cannot be catalogued in this response, including making them the majority in his cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man has put himself on trial and that is the reason since that woeful and awful outing, he has made more than nine claims to see how he could recover but all to no avail. He murdered sleep and would remain awake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement said   Okorocha demonstrated maturity by avoiding abuse and name-calling when he spoke to the media after meeting with Buhari recently, urging Oshiomhole to emulate the governor.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Edo State governor Oshiomhole, who distanced the APC from Okorocha\u2019s alleged disrespect for the Roman Catholic community in the state, apologised to the Archbishop of the Owerri Catholic Archdiocese, Most Reverend Anthony Obinna for the governor\u2019s \u201csin\u201d. But Okorocha, who has been at loggerheads with Oshiomhole over the Imo State APC primaries, in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4149,5976,29,719],"class_list":["post-59011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2019-election","tag-adam-oshimhole","tag-apc","tag-okorocha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}