Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has sacked with immediate effect, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Chief Jude Ejiogu.
Ejiogu, who progressed from the position of Chief of Staff to the Governor to become the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) when Professor Anthony Anwukah was appointed Minister, was until his sack one of the most influential functionaries in the Imo State government.
The sack apparently came as a shock not just to Ejiogu but to many observers and functionaries of government.
While Ejiogu was officially relieved of his duties Friday morning, he was in the company of the governor on Thursday when they commissioned the ultra-modern Owerri Mall housing a Shoprite outlet.
Same Thursday evening, Ejiogu also represented the governor at the Imo State University Alumni dinner and apparently did not foresee his sack.
Government House sources also confided in New Telegraph that the SSG was also at the Governor’s Spibat home Friday morning not too long afterwards the state-owned radio house, Orient FM announced his sack.
