I MET Anayo Rochas Okorocha for the first time 24 years ago at the Jos national convention of the defunct Social Democratic Party, SDP, which produced Chief Moshood Abiola as presidential candidate. On the morning of our departure at the Hill Station Hotel, a large number of brand-new police vehicles which did not yet have number plates drove in. A Jos-based colleague, Peter Kuptong, told me that they belonged to an Igbo man, who was a big-time contractor for the Police.
A youngish, thickset man in dark safaris came out of one of the vehicles. As he walked with a slight limp towards the entrance of the hotel, Pwajok introduced him to me and we exchanged call-cards.
We met again in 1996 during a convention of the main Abacha political party, the United Nigeria Congress Party, UNCP, which Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu was chiefly fronting in Imo State, with Rochas…
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