Former governor of Imo state, Chief Ikedi Ohakim in a rare display of
rageWednesdayflew off the handle and physically assaulted his
confidant, Chief Vitalis Orikeze Ajumbe.
By the time his anger subsided, Chief Ajumbe had sustained a deep cut
on his head and lacerations on his face which he would nurse and
remember for a long time about the deadly encounter.
Briefing newsmen at his bedside in Owerri, the state capital, Chief
Ajumbe gave a graphic detail of how the ex-governor nearly sent him to
the grave.
According to Ajumbe, who served as Ohakim's agent at theDecember 8PDP
governorship primaries, the former governor owed him millions of naira
accruing from the jobs he did for him, part of which included some
millions he helped raise for him before the primaries.
"When i called on him to pay me, he finally invited me to his
residence in Owerri after dodging me several times. He gave me a
Fidelity Bank cheque which could not be cashed both in Abuja and
Owerri", he said.
Ajumbe added that he mailed the bounced cheque back to the former
governor, who now invited him to his house in Owerri.
Because of the sensitive nature of the issue, Ajumbe said he went to
see Ohakim in the company of two of his friends.
He stated that after about two hours delay, Ohakim emerged from his
swimming pool and requested that the two friends of Ajumbe should go
and leave him to thrash the matter out with him as friends".
"I obliged his request and told my friends to go in front of the house
to wait for me. It was then that Ohakim started shouting at me and was
asking if I was using the dud cheque to blackmail him. I told him that
I would do no such thing.
"But before I could finish what I was saying Ohakim grabbed an iron
bar by the side of his house and started hitting me. He hit me first
on the head with blood gushing out and later on my back when I fell
down. He hit me severally with this iron bar and ordered that the
gates be lucked for him to kill me the way he killed other people like
me.
"Already, I had lost consciousness and the friends I told to wait for
me in front started hearing his voice and rushed to revive me and
helped me out of the place before I could be killed. It was then that
he realized that those friends of mine did not leave as he had
requested", he said.
He however stated that Chief Ohakim on realizing the damage he had
done thereafter pleaded with him to take heart even as he (Ohakim)
joined to clean the blood that was gushing out of his head.
Ajumbe, who thanked God for saving his life from the man he once
called bossom friend, regretted that Ohakim could reduce himself to
the extent of beating up a fellow man.
It could be recalled that when Ohakim was in power as the Imo State
governor, he was heavily alleged to have flogged a Catholic priest in
sutan and clamped him into police cell for three days.
Also, on November 1, 2014 during the PDP ward delegates election,
Ohakim and his brother, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume were in a near
fisticuffs at the party's state secretariat, Owerri over who should
control the delegates in Isiala Mbano LGA with both men shoving each
other and threatening to slap each other.
Effort made to get the former governor to comment on the incident
proved abortive. A text message forwarded to his telephone line was
not replied.
--247ureports
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