{"id":27571,"date":"2020-02-19T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27571"},"modified":"2020-02-19T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:57:32","slug":"uwajimogu-ex-speaker-acho-ihim-confesses-on-how-okorocha-made-him-insult-late-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=27571","title":{"rendered":"Uwajimogu: Ex- Speaker, Acho Ihim Confesses On How Okorocha Made Him Insult Late Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/acho.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/acho.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/acho-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/acho-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>People in Imo State and beyond were perturbed during the heat of the 2019 elections when former speaker, Rt Hon Acho Ihim took late Senator Ben Uwajumogu to the cleaners.<br>Uwajumogu and Ihim had had rosy relationship as first time lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly.<br>After Uwajumogu\u2019s four years as number one lawmaker, he was said to be instrumental to Acho Ihim becoming the Speaker 2015-2019 when he insisted on the ranking rule for principal office position.<br>However, their relationship turned sour when Ihim addressed the press and spoke ill of Uwajumogu.<br>Giving reasons why he acted\u00a0 in such a manner, Ihim during the valedictory session for the former Speaker on Tuesday opened up to blame former governor, Rochas Okorocha for insulting the late Okigwe zone Senator during lifetime.<br>According to Ihim, during the days of political crisis in the state, the former Governor, Okorocha had asked him to insult Uwajumogu as a test to his loyalty or he would be booted out as the Speaker of the 8th Assembly.<br>Ihim said he had consulted late Senator Uwajumogu over the development.<br>Explaining further, Ihim said \u201cSenator Uwajumogu told me to go ahead with the insult. Then I called for a press briefing. I used the forum to insult him the way I felt. After that, I went back to him to tell him that I had finished with the insults.<br>\u201d In response he said: \u201cI hope with that your job is saved?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Imo State and beyond were perturbed during the heat of the 2019 elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27578,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions\/27578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}