A retired Uncle told me he went to transact business in a Ministry, and was told to come back after two weeks, as the Governor was celebrating his birthday.Īs a senior Journalist who has traversed every part of Nigeria, I have never heard of any State Governor in Nigeria, whose birthday was celebrated on Prime-Time Media, except that of Imo State. Within this period, Agencies, Ministries and Departments of Imo State were grounded, as the official duty for all Government functionaries became the Governor’s birthday, which ought to have been a private affair that would last just for three hours, like in the case of Chief Achike Udenwa and Dr Ikedi Ohakim, when both men where Governors of the State before Okorocha.Īs Okorocha celebrated, there was “public holidays” because Government affairs ceased. Imo people would recall that before Okorocha began the latest fad of receiving foreign Presidents and unveiling of their Statues, the State was just coming out from the hang-over of the Governor’s stupendously celebrated birthday, which stopped all actions in the State, including administration, for two good weeks. Presently, what Okorocha has been doing in protocol terms, are just called ceremonial activities, while the serious matter of Governance has been on standstill. Governor Okorocha since four months now behaves like he has completed in four years all that he wanted to do for Imo State in Eight years, and therefore has regretted, and therefore has to slowdown and while-away his time on other personal matters, while the time for him to quit office arrives. The Governor acts as if he has down much for the State and its people, and therefore needs to face the work of his Foundation. However, recently, developments show that the Governor is now more occupied with activities of his Foundation, than leading Imo State which put him in office. Today in Nigeria, the story about Imo State dwells more on unveiling of Statues and visits by Foreign Presidents, who are in the State courtesy of “Rochas Foundation”, a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) floated by the sitting Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, even before he became a Governor. Therefore, in the case of Imo State, it has the type of administration it put in power, and must accept it, hook line and sinker. In order words, what obtains for instance in Enugu State cannot be same in Imo, since leaders and administrations are not the same in every given society. Therefore, it does not matter what the public opinion holds about him and his administration.įor sure, every administration and leader have their plans for the people. However, in normal clime, such discussions about Imo State ought to have served as a sober reflection to those who are presently incharge of Imo affairs, who these write-ups are being directed at.īut unfortunately, Imo people, political pundits, the Media and other Commentators can shout themselves hoarse, but as far as Governor Okorocha is concerned, he has a mission which by his own postulations and actions are meant to put Imo on utopian height. In all these frenzy, the sum total is that Imo State, under the leadership Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha has attracted odium to the State, if we judge from the commentaries flowing from the Media. Imo has been on the Internet frequently these days, while the Print Media are jostling with stories pouring out from the State. For the first time in the last Eight years, national Commentators are focusing their gaze on Imo State. For more than one month now, Imo State has been in the news.
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