The Imo State Governor, Mr. Emeka Ihedioha, has suspended all the
twenty- seven Local Government Area Chairmen, their deputies and the
six hundred and forty-five councilors in the state.

The governor equally suspended all the political appointees of the
twenty –seven Local Government Areas of the state.

A statement issued in Owerri, the state capital on Tuesday by Chibuike
Onyeukwu, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, said that the
governor’s action was in pursuant to the provisions of Sections four,
five, and six of the Local Government Administration as amended in,
2019 and section seventy three paragraph three of Imo State Local
Government Administration Law number fifteen of 2000 as amended.

Consequently, the governor has set up Interim management Committees in
all the Local Government Areas of the state.

The statement said that the governor had directed the Directors of
Administration and General Services of each Local Government Area to
take over the management of the councils until the Interim management
Committees were confirmed by the state lawmakers.

The statement also said that Governor Ihedioha had approved the
dissolution and removal of Chairman and Members of the State’s
Independent Electoral Commission.