The National Vice Chairman, South East of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Austin Akobundu, has described Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha as lawless for refusing to obey a court order reinstating sacked Local Government Chairmen in the State.
In a statement in Abuja yesterday, he said that the Governor’s disposition on the matter was an invitation to anarchy and admonished him to respect the Constitution, the Judiciary and the Oath of Allegiance he took when he assumed office.
“We condemn as reckless and unconstitutional, his decision to declare a three-day public holiday for Local Council workers in Imo State and? sending the Heads of Accounts and Treasury on a three-week leave just to prevent the elected Chairmen and Councillors, who were reinstated by the Court of Appeal on July 5, 2012, from functioning in office. He had earlier prevented them from resuming,” Akobundu said
He reminded the Governor that his provocative gimmicks not only amount to contempt of court, but they are a calculated attempt to ridicule the Judiciary and overheat the polity.
The PDP bigwig demanded that the LG workers be directed to resume at their desks immediately, to work with the reinstated Chairmen, in the spirit of the Constitution.
“Okorocha had no genuine intention to obey the ruling of the Court of Appeal which directed that the LG Chairman and Councilors, whom he arbitrarily sacked on assumption of office, be reinstated, hence he is resorting to undemocratic tactics to circumvent the court’s ruling.