“Gov Okorocha Is A Menace To Women”: Sen Anyanwu Responds After Imo Governor Reportedly Made Her Cry

it was at the 2014 edition of Oru Owerri Cultural Festival, held at Ugwu Ekwema Civic Centre along Egbu Road, where the governor Rochas Okorocha was officially inducted into the Azuike age-grade (people from 50 years and above). Okorocha gave Senator Chris Anyanwu, Imo’s only female legislator, a foretaste of what he had in stock for her when he placed her last on the protocol list, even after the transition chairman of Owerri Municipal Council.

The ‘who is who’ of Imo state were there, from the deputy governor and the entire state executive council to Senator Chris Anyanwu (believed to be harboring a governorship ambition) and other aspirants like Ken Njemanze, Chief Ernest Ibejiakor, to Hon. Ezenwa Onyewuchi representing Owerri Federal Constituency.

In his speech, the governor told the crowd that considering his numerous achievements in the last three years in the state, it would not be right for them not to allow criminals to occupy leadership positions in the state anymore.

He said he had reduced traffic gridlock in the city of Owerri and had connected the Old and New Owerri with good inland roads and bridges. The governor said those who held the state to ransom without any useful achievements in 12 years had all come out again, wanting to govern the state, a move he urged them to stop by all means. He added that no more will ’419′ men and criminals be allowed to govern the state.

In an apparent reference to Senator Anyanwu, Okorocha told the crowd not to allow “a woman who slaps her husband in public to govern the state. You must not allow ono na di acho di (a married woman who has pleasure in sleeping around with other men) to govern or represent you anymore. You must not allow a slippers thrower to be your governor.

“When the time comes, we will tell you the people that will give you good governance. We will tell you the person that will be your senator; we will tell you the person that will be your House of Representatives member,” he said.

Earlier, the governor who was speaking without any restraint, told the former Attorney General of the state and PDP governorship aspirant, Ken Njemanze (SAN) that his age grade is a retired one and that he had no business in active politics and governance.

He thanked the people of Owerri for donating lots of land for the development of the state capital, which he said had now become the pride of the Eastern Heartland.

The senator reportedly stormed out with her aides after the governor’s words and was seen shedding tears before entering into her car.

However, Sen. Anyanwu has now released a statement on the words of the governor. Since the governor didn’t mention her by name, she said she was not the one being referred to and that the governor has “no liver to embolden him” to abuse her. However she insisted that the governor’s words showed that he is “a menace to women.”

Read the full statement signed by the senator’s special assistant on public affairs and communications, Vivian Jonathan Iwuoha.

Governor Okorocha has chosen to constitute a menace to women; an affront to women, and this a battle for women, only our strong and virile women will bring him to sanity. Governor Okorocha may have guts but not enough to let loose his tongue directly to Senator Chris Anyanwu. That is to say the Governor did not, and dare not, call Senator Chris Anyanwu a prostitute. Rochas has no liver to embolden him on this.

So, at the Owerri cultural festival, he urged the people not to vote for women who are generally prostitutes and who have the tendency to slap their husbands – and as usual he got away with it. Senator Anyanwu does not fit into his bizarre description and category, but it was well interpreted by the crowd, and reports thereafter, to be a statement directed to his enemy, the Senator. We all know, its no longer a cold war, why Rochas has drawn the battle line with Senator Anyanwu. Apart from Senator Anyanwu being his strongest and best contender in the 2015 guber race, Rochas will not forget the power wielded by Senator Anyanwu for his victory as governor of the State at the point when Senator Anyanwu and APGA had not been betrayed and sold out by Rochas. This is his sordid nature. Rochas Okorocha needs some sort of therapy, fast.

To this extent, no counter attack came, and none will come, from distinguished Senator Chris Anyanwu because in his usual cowardice, he made a general, sweeping statement derogatory to women. Women must come together to fight against such irresponsible and immodest conduct coming from a man who gives impression that he has no reputation to protect; who has no respect for the office and position he represents in the State.

The great news is that Rochas has raised Senator Anyanwu to the status of candidate. She has become a he-woman to be feared by king-kong himself. Rochas made a grave strategic error. He asked the general question: will you vote a woman? It is not just Senator Chris Anyanwu that is woman on IMO, but Senator Anyanwu is that one that he fears and dreads, knowing her strength and disciplinary nature.

That open, brazen statement that Owerri should not vote woman has gone down for him. Verily, the man who passed a vote of no confidence on woman before the ancestors of Owerri people; the man who declared at the timber market Orlu that Imo women are the worst prostitutes will never again enjoy the votes of women.

Oru Owerri festival venue was a declaration of war against woman. He will be defeated and deflated by woman, God being alive and living.