Why My Successor May Be Stoned By Imo People -- Gov. Rochas Okorocha

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
Image 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.