The Imo State
Government on Tuesday denied the news making the rounds that the state
governor, Hope Uzodiinma, was budgeting the sum of N10 billion for the release
of detained Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari.
Commissioner for
Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, told journalists in Owerri, the
state capital that there was no truth in the news, even as he described the
news as “lame, incoherent and illogical propaganda concocted by the
lucifer-infested social media outfit of a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) and former governor of the state to shoot down the popularity of
the Governor.”
The Commissioner, who
refused to name anybody as being behind the fake news, said, “The former
Governor who is smarting from the backlash of his saboteur comments against
Ndigbo wants to divert attention from his irredeemably damaged image with the
fake Abba Kyari story.”
Emelumba said that the
fake news was reminiscent of a story planted by the PDP people that Uzodimma
wanted to rename Imo State University after the late Chief of staff to the
president, Abba Kyari.
The commissioner said
Uzodimma, whose administration was a product of the rule of law, could not have
declared Abba Kyari innocent of the charges against him when that job belongs
exclusively to the judiciary.
He said, “It is also
ridiculous to impute that the governor was budgeting N10 billion for the release of
Abba Kyari when everyone knows how prudent and accountable His Excellency is
with the resources of the state.”
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