The governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha has
bragged over his achievement as the governor of Imo state for the second
successive time, claiming that it would be impossible to have a
governor that would match his achievement in Imo.
According to
him, the inability of anyone to surpass his achievments may spell doom
for his successor, who may be stoned by the people for not living up to
his standards.
The governor’s ironic political stunt is coming
at a time majority of the Imo people express strong disgust and outright
detestation of the poor governance of the his administration especially
in his second tenure.
Also, noteworthy are the complaints of the
civil servants in the state who are owned over 6 months salary even
after about 30% salary slashed was effected by the governor.
But
according to Rochas Okorocha who spoke during an interview with State
House Correspondents, at Abuja, yesterday, Friday, his administration
had spoilt the people of Imo with infrastructural development which
would be his huge legacy to the people after service as their governor.
Hear
him: “I am in this job not for the profit of it but for the honour and
glory of the job. So I want to leave a legacy. I want Imo people to miss
me and they will definitely miss me. Believe you me they have not seen
such developmental work before now and they will miss it.
“The
only problem I have is that anybody that comes after me and does not
perform will be stoned. Because you cannot come to Imo State now and say
you want to abolish free education from primary to university, they
will not accept. I have spoilt Imo people believe me.
“You cannot
come to Imo State and say you want to give them a single lane road when
they are now used to eight lane road in the city, they won’t accept it.
You cannot come here and tell the children to go to schools where the
floors are not tiled they will not accept because all the schools have
been rebuilt. I have rebuilt 450 schools.”
Although most of the
hospitals the administration started over three years ago were yet to be
completed and have not taken off, the governor claimed that, “You can
no longer take them to those ramshackle hospitals, those shanties they
called hospitals because I have built 27 to 200 bed general hospitals.
You can no longer tell them those stories. All the infrastructures are
there.
“You cannot tell them that there are criminal activities
any more and that your hands are tied they will not accept it because we
know where we brought Imo from, from unsafe place to a safe place right
now. And you can no longer tell our workers to dress shabbily they will
not, they will want to dress in their suits and tie and white shirts.
So Imo has changed believe me.”
Giving himself pass mark, he
said, “I stand to be challenged and corrected by anybody that what we
have done in Imo State in six years can be comparable to what any
governor in that state living or dead has done.
“And if we put
all of them together, I can’t say whether they can match what we have
done. Have you seen me sounding boisterous? That is the truth. But the
point is I don’t make media noise, I don’t make foundation laying stones
Programme, I don’t bring women to dance because I want to lay
foundation project. I don’t commission projects because for me it
doesn’t make sense.
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