Imo state government has condemned the resurrection of a cloned fake THISDAY story against Governor Hope Uzodimma.
The Commissioner for Information, Public Orientation and Strategy, Hon Declan Emelumba regretted that those who are bent on stoking conflict between Ndigbo and the rest of the country were behind the re circulation of the cloned newspaper publication where it was alleged that Gov Hope Uzodimma has pledged to marry off Imo women to Fulani settlers.
He said the cloned Thisday publication first circulated in August 2021, which was promptly disowned by the management of the newspaper.
Emelumba disclosed that the resurrection of the fake news story has been traced to the same group raising a false alarm that Imo state was hosting an IDP Camp at Nsu,Ehime Mbano local government area of the state.
He named the sponsors as those who woefully lost the recently conducted local government election and were looking for ways to cause instability in the state.
Emelumba said it was ungodly for people out of sheer political banditry to resurrect an issue that had been settled three years ago.
According to him, Uzodimma doesn’t even have the power to compel any lady outside his biological children to marry anyone, and he wondered where they got that satanic idea from.
He said it was ridiculous for people to peddle such a rumour again ,even when they know that there is no iota of truth in it.
” Honestly, I believe Imo people are too cosmopolitan to believe such a balderdash from empty brains whose quest for power has led them to all sorts of mischief and desperation”, he submitted.
He described Uzodimma as an unrepentant democrat who will never trample upon the human rights of any law-abiding resident of the state.
The commissioner called on the people of Imo State to disregard any information that is intended to tarnish the image of government officials or incite them against other Nigerians.
According to him, the resurrection of the fake news against the governor and the circulation of a video by one Chinonso Uba calling for insurrection against the federal government by Ndigbo was not a mere coincidence.
He noted that it was a deliberate action to cause instability in Imo state, leading to another wave of insecurity in the state
