Okorocha Is Suffering From Inferiority Complex ---Anambra Community Leader

 

A community leader in Anambra State, Chief Paulinus Anagboso has condemned what he called Owelle Rochas Okorocha’s intemperate abuse of the people of Anambra, expressing surprise that somebody occupying a position of responsibility like him will speak without circumspection.  

He was reacting to reports credited to Owelle Rochas Okorocha that Anambra people are the problem of Igbo land.

Chief Anagboso regretted such statements for being capable of truncating Igbo unity, which, according to him, responsible Igbo leaders are championing.  “It is regrettable that when other geopolitical zones are forging central unity, people like Rochas Okorocha are creating enmity among Igbos.  Does he realize at all that internal unity is a prerequisite for solidarity and once a people are destroyed from within, they are finished?”

Anagboso, who recalled that during the launching of the distribution of books by Sir Emeka Offor Foundation at Oraifite that the same Rochas commended the people of Anambra State for their industry and called them the “pride of the Igbos” wondered what has gone wrong.  “Even at that event, when he was newly sworn-in as the Governor of Imo State, he said that for the first time in his life, he went to election without spending a kobo as Sir Emeka Offor and Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah sponsored his election.  The only gratitude he owes them is to now call them “money bag” politicians.

Wondering why Rochas should make any reference, direct or indirect, to Governor Obi, Anagboso said that Obi was far ahead of Rochas in any aspect of life for Rochas to vilify him in any way.  He said that even recently, the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, Most Rev. Obinna appealed to Rochas to emulate Governor Obi in the art of governance.

He regretted that while other people in Nigeria see Anambra people in Nigeria as most industrious Nigerians, that it was surprising for Rochas to make uncomplimentary remarks about them.

Concluding, he appealed to Igbos to shun divisive tendencies and work together as brothers and sisters rather than make unguarded statement as Rochas did, which, he said, was more out of inferiority complex.