Emeka Ihedioha Plans To Destroy The Akachi Tower In Imo — Rochas Okorocha

After ex Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha revealed that Governor Emeka Ihedioha’s first assignment of his government wold be to demolish the Akachi Tower, Emeka has come out to say that he knows nothing abut what the former governor is talking about.

He suggested that it might be the work of the people who have working around the statue and still did not get paid by Rochas.

Okorocha had said through his Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemedo, “We want to also use this opportunity to inform the general public that 24 hours after inauguration, the new PDP government in the state carried out its first assignment by demolishing Akachi (the symbolic hand of God) Tower erected by the former governor.

“This is suspicious. They have also changed the Imo Trade and Investment Centre to Ahiajoku. The former governor had taken certain steps to bring IMO people closer to God. We have also heard that they want to close the Government House Chapel.”

Gov Ihedioha responded through his own Special Adviser on Media, Steve Osuji, he said: “Imo State government has no hand in the demolition of Akachi statue. Contrary to reports emanating from Owerri, the government of Imo State has no hand in the pulling down of the gargantuan Akachi statue near Aba Road, Owerri.

“At about noon on Thursday (yesterday), a mammoth crowd had besieged the Akachi statue hacking at it and trying to pull it down, apparently acting in pent up anger.

“According to reports, Imo people seem to have nursed a loathing for the statue right from the beginning, considering it a monument that portends ominous auguries for the people of the state.

“Another version suggests that the contractors who have been working rather endlessly around the statue for some time, but who may have not been paid, may be responsible for the breaching of the giant statue.

“If the government deems it necessary to pull down the statue or any structure for that matter, it would be done properly and in accordance with the law.

“Does it stand to reason that a government that is barely 24 hours old, with no handover notes whatsoever and without an office to work from, would concern itself with an ordinary statue?

“Let it be known that the new government in Imo State has its eyes set on nobler goals which include fast-tracking the rebuilding of Imo State.

“It is interesting to note that the Akachi statue is a massive monument of a hand pointing heavenwards and rising about 50 feet into the atmosphere. Not many in Imo quite understand the significance of the baleful legacies of the outgone governor, Rochas Okorocha.”