![](\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APC-crisis-Nwosu-reacts-to-INEC-recognizing-Uzodinma-as-Imo-guber-candidate.jpg\")
<\/p>\nHe said this on Sunday when he featured on Channels TV\u2019s political programme, Sunday Politics, in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Nwosu, who is Okorocha\u2019s son-in-law, said besides his own governorship aspiration and the governor\u2019s quest for a senatorial seat in next year\u2019s general election, no other member of the Okorocha dynasty was running for political office.<\/p>\n
He argued that his relationship with the Governor did not rule him out of aspiring for any political office in the land.<\/p>\n
Nwosu pointed out that the Governor showed a culture of not interfering in his work when he served in the government as commissioner for lands and chief of staff.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe issue of Rochas Okorocha trying to control Imo state with his family does not arise. People should get down to Imo state. People should leave sentiments alone<\/p>\n
\u201cMy name is Ugwumba Uche Nwosu. I am from Nkwerre local government. Rochas is from Ideato local government. By virtue of God\u2019s grace, I was able to get married to the governor\u2019s daughter. Does that stop me as a man from running for governor of Imo state?<\/p>\n
\u201cI was commissioner of lands and now chief of staff. Did Rochas Okorocha stop me from doing my work? The urban renewal you see in Imo state today is out of my initiative.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho else from Owelle Rochas Okorocha\u2019s family is a candidate of the House of Assembly, House of Representative of the Senate?\u201d Nwosu queried.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Uche Nwosu, the Chief of Staff to the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has said those accusing his principal and members of his family of plotting to continue their control of the state beyond 2019 were not being objective in their position. He said this on Sunday when he featured on Channels TV\u2019s political programme, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19487,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[707,719,6842],"class_list":["post-60610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-imo","tag-okorocha","tag-uche-nwosu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60610","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=60610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}