A mild drama characterised the seeming kidnapping of politician and in-law of former Governor Rochas Okorocha, Uche Nwosu, on Sunday.
He was said to have, during a church service, been held by the gunmen who took him away while his escort watched.
Some, however, believe it could be an arrest masterminded by the state Governor Hope Uzodinma.
Uzodinma and Okoroha have been at loggerheads over some issues and allegations by the government that Okorocha looted the state while in office.
Some of his property have also been seized.
Only about a week ago, the former governor condemned the insecurity rocking the state, saying Imo was turning into an Afghanistan under Uzodinma.
Nwosu and his family were at St Peter’s Anglican church for a thanksgiving service when the gunmen, who operated in an Armoured Personnel Carrier and Hilux vans, stormed the area.
They shot indiscriminately before taking their target away, as his security operatives watched without resisting the gun-wielding persons.
But in a swift reaction, the state commissioner for Information and strategy, Declan Emelumba, said that the governor had no hand in what happened.
While Emelumba could not confirm if it was an arrest or a kidnap incident, he said that it was “ridiculous” to allege that the governor had a hand in the disappearance of Nwosu.
