Imo Governor Wants To Destroy APC Legacies – Okorocha

The immediate past Governor of Imo State and now Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District in the Senate, Rochas Okorocha has said his successor, Emeka Ihedioha is going about the governance of the state as if he is in a contest with him.

While reacting to the take over of the Eastern Palm University, Ogboko by the state government, Okorocha noted that the committee had no right to scrap the universities and polytechnics he established while he was governor of the state.

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According to a statement by his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha said that scrapping of universities and polytechnics he established as governor “showed the speed and zeal with which the government of the day wants to destroy all the landmark projects of the All Progressives Congress government in the state which Senator Okorocha had headed.”

The statement read: “We want to let Governor Ihedioha know that Okorocha had done eight years as governor and cannot be governor again. He should stop acting as if he is in contest with the former governor. We are saying this because the zeal with which the governor has been destroying and discrediting all that the former governor laboured to put in place, has become worrisome to all Imo people, and others too.

“All the facilities Okorocha used to beautify Owerri, the State Capital, have all been removed as if INEC announced him governor for the sake of removing or destroying all that Okorocha built.

“It is also worth mentioning that since his inauguration as governor he has not been able to do any other thing apart from inspecting, removing, destroying and discrediting all that Okorocha did, which means, we didn’t lie when we claimed that Okorocha had more than one thousand verifiable projects as governor.

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The statement urged the governor to take things easy and think deeply before acting on issues: “We appeal to Governor Ihedioha to take things easy and think deeply before acting on issues instead of doing otherwise.

He said the chairman of the Committee on the Review of Newly Established Tertiary Institutions, Prof. Njoku exceeded his term of reference by announcing the takeover of the Eastern Palm University and scrapping of all the tertiary institutions built by Okorocha.

“What was expected of the committee at the end of its assignment was to submit their findings or reports to the governor, who would then hand over the report to the Attorney-General of the State, to look at all the legal ingredients involved in the establishment of the universities and others, before making any specific pronouncement on them.

“Prof. Njoku’s action only showed the speed and zeal with which the government of the day wants to destroy all the landmark projects of the APC government in the State which Senator Okorocha had headed.

The statement stressed that Okorocha had maintained that the Eastern Palm University was a PPP venture and that it was unwise to have announced the scrapping of the institutions built by his predecessor.

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He urged the Government to look at the ideas or vision behind the building of the institutions and their advantages both short-term, and long-term before taking any action, adding that it seemed the governor was looking at the man who set up institutions and not the merits of the institutions.

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