Ambrose Nwaogwogwu, an official of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who described Hope Uzodinma, the governor of Imo State, as Supreme Court governor has been charged to court with terrorism.
Mr Nwaogwogwu, charged yesterday, is also said to have accused the governor of secretly approving Rural Grazing Reserves for herdsmen in the state and attempting to rename Imo State University (IMSU), after Abba Kyari, former chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari who died from COVID-19 complications.
The defendant said to have made the allegations against the governor on Facebook between March and May also accused the state helmsman of planning to divert N5.2 billion meant for pensioners in the state before he was arrested on May 28.
According to Punch Newspapers, other charges filed in the charge sheet marked 0W/217c/2020 included cyberbullying, defamation, and attempting to incite citizens of the state against Uzodinma, who became governor of the state in January following a Supreme Court judgment.
Part of the charges against the Director-General of the PDP new media in the state who was picked up by the State Security Service (SSS) read: “That you, Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, on April 20, 2020, in Owerri, within the jurisdiction of this court, knowingly and intentionally posted on your Facebook wall through a computer network that governor Hope Uzodinma is to rename Imo state university to Abba Kyari university for helping him out in the supreme Court, which you know to be false for the purpose of causing annoyance, insult, injury, hatred, ill will and needless anxiety to the governor and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 24 (1)(a)(b) of Cybercrimes (Prohibition etc) Act 2015.
“That you, Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, on March 23, 2020, in Owerri, within the jurisdiction of this court, knowingly published on your Facebook page that governor Hope Uzodinma has inaugurated an undercover RUGA commissioner and has made available a large expanse of land for the takeoff of the RUGA project in Ngor Okpala which act is deliberately done with malice and which is seriously intended to intimidate Imo population and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(2)(b)(II) of Terrorism (Prevention) Act 2011.”
