I’m Yet To Complete My Tenure As Governor – Ohakim

Former Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has declared that he is the only candidate in PDP who is running on the tick­et that has only four years to complete his tenure. He made this declaration recently while addressing Imo indigenes in United States through a confer­ence call. According to the former governor, since Gov. Rochas Okorocha is running on the ticket that he has four years to complete his tenure; the only other person that has four years to complete a tenure is Ikedi Ohakim and the only person again who has programmes and proj­ects to compare with Rochas Okorocha’s is himself. He stated that throughout his re­gime as governor, no single contract failed in Imo. “No single contractor ran away with one Naira of Imo money and that he ran the government the way it should be run,” Ohakim said. He therefore described anyone from Okigwe who is trying to run for governor when he, Ohakim, still has four years to go as playing the spoiler game. Shedding some light on the highlights of his admin­istration in Imo State, Chief Ohakim decried the imbal­ance going on in the state pointing out that Imo won national recognitions on some of the programs that he created and scored number one in four major programs. “One is the clean and green initiative where Imo won the first price of the federal ministry of environment for four consecutive years: 2007, 2008 2009 and 2010. The other is IROMA which is the Imo Rural Road Main­tenance Agency which also earned Imo state an award from the World Bank. These are some of the substantive programs created during our administration”, he added. The former governor reaf­firmed that he has all it takes, including lots of votes wait­ing to be harvested, to face Gov. Rochas Okorocha; be it popularity, structure and funding, adding that he is popular and has name recog­nition just like the incumbent governor. He posited the he created 10,000 graduate jobs and 50% of the autonomous communities in Imo state. Ohakim further recalled that the entire 44 development centers in the state were in­stituted by his administra­tion. The former governor stressed that the entire town unions that Gov. Rochas Okorocha demolished were being financed by his ad­ministration. Similarly, all the democratically elected local government executives Okorocha demolished came into power during his admin­istration adding that “I will allow them to serve out their term.” Source:thesun