ORLU POLITICAL CONSULTATIVE ASSEMBLY (OPOCA)

30TH AUGUST,2025

PRESS RELEASE

CHIMA AMADI’S INGLORIOUS AUGUST MEETING WITH IMO WOMEN; WHY THIS ATTENTION SEEKER SHOULD BE DISREGARDED.

It has become necessary and compelling for us to come out clearly to respond to a deliberate and systematic campaign of calumny/ organized orchestration of falsehood against the person and office of the Governor of Imo State, Most Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma CON, GSSR, by one Chima Matthew Amadi, a man whose vaulting ambition to become the next Governor of Imo State has virtually turned to a loose cannon and desperate attention seeker . He has been gyrating all over the place dramatizing gullibility, ignorance, political imbecility and obvious obsession for violence and social disorder via persistent incitement of the unsuspecting public in the guise of reaching out to the Imo public space for a failed ambition to succeed the incumbent Governor of Imo State.

Every Imo Citizen, including Mr Amadi, is at liberty to aspire for any position of his or her choice and also entitled to one’s inalienable rights to personal opinion and association. While these rights are fundamentally guaranteed as enshrined in the Constitution, the same law interestingly doesn’t guarantee abuses considering the fact that where the right of one man stops also marks where that of another begins.

It is on this note that the Orlu Political Consultative Assembly (OPOCA) resolved to wield the big stick to condemn the notoriety of Chima Matthew Amadi who trivializes everything about public speech making which he has ridiculously reduced to a platform for name calling, ridiculing of the government and its functionaries, inciting and instigating any available public audience with unfounded allegations, falsehoods and unverified rumors against the Governor and his government.

This style of public noise making and unwarranted recourse to raining of abuses in the pretense of public engagement has taken odious dimension of a pastime and hobby of Chima Matthew Amadi and we can’t fold our hands and allow this crass mischief and wickedness to continue unchallenged because of misguided claim of exercising one’s fundamental human rights.

This continued naked dance of a rattled megalomaniac like confused Chima Amadi has been taken to the level of notoriety and insanity as it keeps reverberating to the point of a recurring decimal in the Imo public space.To say that Mr Amadi has suddenly become a social nuisance and instrument of distraction to the society is not an overstatement by any means. Incontrovertible evidence abounds that almost on a weekly basis, this uninvestigated returnee who owes the public every explanation and probe over his sudden wealth which intoxicates his being always scouts for any available public gathering through which he could mount podiums to further the spread of his heretic teachings of violence, social deviance and anti government inflammatory remarks and sentiments.

It was barely three weeks ago that he experimented on deploying the Church through a religious gathering at Assumpta Cathedral to launch an organized anti government campaign by citing false statistics and unverified indices to insult and demonize the Governor to justify his faulty conclusions of bad governance and underdevelopment. He really sold trash and good enough it was a bad market that never sold at all.

It is true that Amadi’s crude and uninspiring outing at Assumpta religious gathering failed to achieve his evil intentions and that did not go down well with him because of the moral burden of backlash and collective condemnation that trailed his nefarious actions from the larger population of the Imo society who having known his style quickly decoded, shunned and refused to be hoodwinked by his lies and fallacies that were freely poured on the sacred Altar of God.

It is possible that the failure of that mischievous outing at Assumpta prompted him to scheme for another opportunity to actualize this craze for public speech to continue spewing his jaundiced and concocted falsehoods against Imo State government for cheap popularity and hallucinated high political ranting which he thinks would provide him with unhindered inroads to Douglas House ahead of 2027. What a shallow way of aspiring to succeed an incumbent governor!

While the condemnation that trailed his failed Assumpta outing is yet to slide, Mr Chima Amadi in his usual style of scouting for any available crowd deployed his errand boys and sycophants to stage-manage a phantom Imo Women August meeting and that vain motive prompted the assemblage of some women which was indeed the gathering of his bunch of handpicked political supporters and partisan groups. It is important to debunk the erroneous impression that Amadi addressed Imo Women August Meeting, which is not true! He merely met with his supporters and women leaders, and it would have been better to present it truly as it is.

Imo women as a body couldn’t have availed themselves to the dirty and negative teachings of such unsound mind like Amadi who lives in delusions and exaggerated superiority complex over others. The crux of Amadi ‘s every outing is to insult the Governor and discredit his government, and one wonders if he is truly aspiring to be the Governor or to engage in petty gossips and propagation of falsehood. Does Chima Amadi without any known experience or background of public service and politics have reasons to talk down on someone with excellent record of political leadership at diverse levels?Chima is yet to display his resume and tell Ndi Imo where he had served or worked before now. Which political experience can he boast of, or is expected to bring to bear as he aspires for the governorship of the State? It is really a big puzzle that the basis of his inordinate ambition is yet to be unraveled because nobody knows what he is bringing to the table which everyone expects to hear from him.

Instead of emphasizing on his vision and blueprints as someone aspiring for such a big Office, the reverse is the case as mounting of different podiums at every public gathering to incite unsuspecting public and condemn the government of Sëñätör Hope Uzodimma appear as his cardinal objectives. Is that how to canvas for votes and win election for such a prized position?Chima keeps misleading gullible and uninformed crowd of haters of good deeds who clap and dance whenever nasty things are said against leaders and governments at various levels. He understands the weakness and psychology of such persons and continues to play smart on their foolishness.

Many thoughtful and intelligent persons have continued to ask salient questions that bordered on what this attention seeker and jester really wants and who is deceiving him? OPOCA is really astonished and also asking the same question because the intention to pollute the political space is obvious. We are surprised that someone who claims to harbour gubernatorial ambition engages in this kind of childish politics. It is indeed disgusting that he lacks elementary wisdom and any modicum of political arithmetic. He has eyes but does not truly see with it! Chima has ears but doesn’t hear with it. If he sees with his eyes and hears with his ears, Chima would have seen the giant strides of the Governor and heard of his transformative projects that have touched numerous lives.

The Governor has redefined leadership and set standards through his infrastructural revolution in rural and urban roads. The Orlu/Owerri dual carriage way with street lights, Owerri /Okigwe highway with streets lights, Owerri/Mbaise/Obowo/Umuahia highway with streets lights and several others are undisputed instances of ambitious road infrastructural projects that have stimulated socioeconomic development across the State.The Governor has done well in the health and education sectors as we can see the establishment of new State owned Universities, upgrading of existing ones through accreditation of new courses, Medical Sciences which had suffered setback in the past with backlog of medical students that overstayed without graduating were successfully graduated. Apart from his continued efforts to address the malady of insecurity and restoration of peace across the State, the Governor has been deliberate with various measures put in place to improve the welfare of the workers whose salaries and pensions are paid as at when due.

This further goes with the introduction of the 3R workers transport scheme which provides free bus services for workers on daily basis. Only a couple of days ago, Governor Uzodimma broke another record by becoming the first State Governor to raise State workers’ minimum wage to N104,000 and upward review of wages for other category of workers like lecturers and medical Doctors. It is a statement of fact that the Governor has performed creditably and deserves accolades from well meaning Imo indigenes. He does not deserve insult as the likes of Chima Amadi personified.

OPOCA warns that those that own Chima Amadi should call him to order to avoid creating problems that he and his sponsors cannot contain. We particularly wish to draw the attention of the people of Owerri Zone to this continued misbehavior of one of their own. If the Zone is consistent with their pledge of allegiance and support for the Governor of Imo State, they should stop keeping quiet over Chima Amadi’s insults and disrespect to the Governor whom they always visit to reassure him of their loyalty and solidarity. OPOCA may be forced to take legitimate but extraordinary measures to address this new tune from Owerri Zone as being brazenly peddled and amplified by one of their sons, Mr Chima Amadi.

A word is enough for the wise!

Signed

Hon Chief Greg Obioha
OPOCA SPOKESPERSON