NWOSU TO IHEDIOHA: You were not elected to be chasing shadows, or pull down Okorocha

Governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in Imo State in the 2019 general elections, Uche Nwosu, has told the state’s new governor, Emeka Ihedioha, that he was not voted as governor to be chasing shadows.

Nwosu also said that Ihedioha should know that the people voted for him to become governor so that he can deliver dividends of democracy to them and not come and pull down the former governor of the state.

Nwosu is Okorocha’s son-in-law and served under the immediate past government as the Chief of Staff to the governor.

Okorocha had dumped his All Progressives Congress (APC) party to support Nwosu, whom he vowed must be his successor, as AA governorship candidate in the last general elections.

Following Ihedioha’s vow to probe Okorocha’s government, Nwosu, who came second behind Ihedioha during the last election, told newsmen in Owerri, on Wednesday that the actions of Ihedioha since inauguration means he was not ready to govern the state.

“The people of Imo State did not vote for him to start chasing shadows. For the time he will stay as the governor, he should unfold his plans and programmes for the people. No one is interested in excuses. What the people want is performance and nothing less.

“The people want concrete statement on what the programmes of the government are, what the government intends to do and how it would deliver dividends of democracy to them and not embarking on a mission to pull down Rochas Okorocha.

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“Suspension of Local Government Chairmen and their Councilors, dissolving the recently-inaugurated boards of government agencies and parastatals and scrapping of recently established tertiary institutions, are definitely the wrong way to start for a government that wants to make headway. One would have expected that by now, the governor would have engaged the civil servants and tell them what he has for the workers, as well as take up from where his predecessor stopped.

“The acrimonies that could arise from these actions are hardly what Ihedioha needed at this time, he should rather consolidate on the achievements of his predecessor and that is what Imolites want to see. He should concentrate on the business of governance. If I were the governor today, I would definitely hit the ground running, knowing that there is a job to do,” he said.

 

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