Nigeria: Imo 2011 - Why Ohakim is on the Precipice

Leadership

28 April 2011

Nigeria: Imo 2011 - Why Ohakim is on the Precipice

Ebere Uzoukwa

opinion

Owerri — Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State may have shot himself in the foot, amongst other miscalculations, with his role in the suspension of the Interior Minister, Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho by the presidency on the eve of the gubernatorial election. Ebere Uzoukwa examines the final power play

The National Assembly election unveiled a peculiar trend among Imo politicians that pointed to an emerging new direc\tion. Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo state and Ambassador Kema Chikwe, both of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) had played into the hands of the opposition political parties by either omission or commission through series of perceived political misdeeds, miscalculation and misconception that had set the stage for an inevitable humiliation of the ruling party in the state.