What is the strange logic behind Hope Uzodinma’s political actions? By Rotimi Fasan

If one considers the unlikely calculus through which he emerged as the governor of Imo State in 2020, Chief Hope Uzodinma is one of the oddities of Nigeria’s adventure in democracy. Between him and Owelle Rochas Okorocha, with whom he has locked horns in a struggle over the senatorial ticket of Imo West, there is hardly anything to choose. He had been elected a senator and was in the middle of his second term representing Imo West at the National Assembly when he decided to throw his hat into the Imo governorship race in 2019. Owelle Rochas, whose jankara ideology of iberiberism signposts his fascination with statues and other monuments of dubious aesthetic value, at this time called the ...