I’ve Spoilt Imo People With Infrastructures, They’ll Stone My Successor If He Underperforms – Okorocha

Owelle Rochas Okorocha has claimed that he has performed so well as governor of Imo State to the extent that whoever will succeed in office will be pelted with stones by people of the state if he or she does not measure up to the standard he has set in the state.

He boasted that his administration had spoilt the people of Imo with infrastructural development which he said will be a legacy to be left behind when he completes his second term in 2019.

Okorocha, who stated this in Abuja while interacting with State House Correspondents, explained that what his administration had done in Imo State in the last six years cannot be compared with what past governors of the state whether living or dead had done.

He said that by the time he concludes his term and leaves the Government House, he would be remembered as “a good governor who impacted positively on the lives of the people”.

According to the governor, “I am in this job not for the profit of it but for the honour and glory of the job. So I want to leave a legacy. I want Imo people to miss me and they will definitely miss me. Believe you me they have not seen such developmental work before now and they will miss it.

“The only problem I have is that anybody that comes after me and does not perform will be stoned. Because you cannot come to Imo State now and say you want to abolish free education from primary to university, they will not accept. I have spoilt Imo people believe me.

“You cannot come to Imo State and say you want to give them a single lane road when they are now used to eight lane road in the city, they won’t accept it. You cannot come here and tell the children to go to schools where the floors are not tiled they will not accept because all the schools have been rebuilt. I have rebuilt 450 schools.”

Okorocha continued that, “You can no longer take them to those ramshackle hospitals, those shanties they called hospitals because I have built 27 to 200 bed general hospitals. You can no longer tell them those stories. All the infrastructures are there.

“You cannot tell them that there are criminal activities any more and that your hands are tied they will not accept it because we know where we brought Imo from, from unsafe place to a safe place right now. And you can no longer tell our workers to dress shabbily they will not, they will want to dress in their suits and tie and white shirts. So Imo has changed believe me.”

While giving himself a pass mark, he averred, “I stand to be challenged and corrected by anybody that what we have done in Imo State in six years can be comparable to what any governor in that state living or dead has done.

“And if we put all of them together, I can’t say whether they can match what we have done. Have you seen me sounding boisterous? That is the truth. But the point is I don’t make media noise, I don’t make foundation laying stones Programme, I don’t bring women to dance because I want to lay foundation project. I don’t commission projects because for me it doesn’t make sense.”