Immediate past Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, yesterday, formally declared his intention to run for Imo governorship poll on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
Chief Ohakim, who made his intention known when he paid an official visit to the members of the State Executive Committee of the PDP, also told the audience that he is not ashamed to re-contest the position after loosing out to the incumbent, Rochas Okorocha in 2011.
Chief Ohakim explained that he was vying for the position to complete the gigantic projects he started in the state, which have been abandoned by the incumbent governor.
The former governor alleged that he left over N28. 6 billion for his successor, in an interest-yielding account, which he noted has been used in building roundabouts and other structures that do not generate employment for the teeming unemployed youths.
He was particularly irked that all the job-creating ventures he started have been sadly abandoned, adding that “even those he gave gainful employment were summarily sacked withou due process”.
He recalled with grief that a struggling man lost his life during a recent heavy rain in Owerri, adding that such tragedies could have been avoided if proper engineering drawing for the road project was done.
“During my tenure, there were no assassinations. No permanent secretary was declared missing. No protocol officer was brutally murdered. There was no reported case of arson. These things are sadly happening now”, Ohakim lamented.
via nigerianeye
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