“For the controversially produced governor of Imo state
courtesy of a highly disreputable verdict of a panel of seven supreme court of
Nigeria’s justices, the best bet is not to commence the governance of Imo state
with convoluted distractions of some misplaced probe of past administrations,
but to implement deliberate peoples centered policies and programmes to win the
hearts and minds of Imo citizens who see the judgment of the supreme court as
dubious and inexplicable. Most people in Imo state are asking just like
Augustine of Hippo although they are asking in hush tone the following: 'If
Justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers? The new
man in Imo State should convince the people that he is not an usurper of
their mandate but a Child of special circumstances. He needs to win public
trust and confidence which are waning massively in Imo state since after that
unethical Supreme Court’s judgment throwing up the new status quo in the Imo
state government house in Owerri.”
With above charge, the nation’s leading civil Rights
advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has also
asked governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state to settle down to the core task of
rebuilding the devastated state by the systematic implementation of law-based
developmental blueprints, rather than engage in shadow boxing, and the soap-box
drama of pretending to be fighting corruption.
“We urge the supreme court’s produced governor of Imo
state to work for Imo people and not for his spiritual warrior Reverend Father
Ejike Mbaka or for the Abuja establishment that purportedly waged internecine
war that led to the substantially illogical and unsound judgment of the panel
of the supreme court that eventually truncated the tenure of governor Emeka
Ihedioha and rocketed the candidate who came fourth in an election to the
position of the winner. The new Imo state governor should build upon the ground
breaking and extraordinary developmental blueprints already being put in motion
by his immediate predecessor.”
“Imo state people want a governor who will sustain the
policy of transparency, open government and accountability. Imo people want a
governor who must continue to a logical conclusion, the World Bank’s assisted
rural roads works that are already going on which crisscrossed virtually all
senatorial zones of Imo state. Imo needs a silent worker whose good works
should speak for him and not a talkative. Imo does not need a noisy governor
who governs only in the media just like Rochas Okorocha.”
HURIWA has also warned the state House of Assembly
members to resist the temptations of massively crossing over to the political
party of the newly minted governor (All Progressives Congress) and abandon the
political parties under whose ideologies and programmes their elections were
made possible just as the group has charged the voters to recall any member of
the state House of Assembly that would behave like a political prostitute and
cross carpet into All Progressives Congress (APC) the party of the new governor.
“We are not opposed to systematically probing the
administrations of the past especially that of Rochas Okorocha that has nothing
on ground to show for spending 8 years as governor, but we think the governor
should let the anti-graft bodies to do their independent investigations and
retrieve all public assets and cash stolen allegedly by the officials of the
past administration prior to the brief period of governor Emeka Ihedioha.”The
Imo State governor must restore trust and public confidence. This is important
to guarantee legitimacy of his authority.
"Hope Uzodinma must resist any attempt to introduce
settlements for Fulani herdsmen known as Ruga because most people in Imo are
saying that Abuja produced Hope Uzodinma as Imo governor to implement the
anti-people’s policy of taking over ancestral lands of the people to set up
RUGA settlement for strange herdsmen.”
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