Influential politician and outspoken former Edo state governor, Adams
Oshiomhole, has on Friday fired hot shots at Governor Rochas Okorocha,
APC kicks-off its guber campaign in Imo state.
While
speaking at the just concluded rally to launch the APC governorship
campaign in Imo state the National Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has condemned nepotism in the government of
Imo.
Oshiomhole said the party’s governorship candidate, Senator
Hope Uzodinma, would return Imo to the people and bring an end to
government by a single family.
The former Edo state governor
stated that the days were gone when a governor would look at the faces
of his people and say there was money to do other things besides pay
those who were working for the government.
He said, “When you elect Senator Hope, appointment into government will be based on merit, not family connection.
“I’m
assuring you that we have a governorship candidate, whose purpose is to
develop and bring prosperity to the Igbo young man, the Owerri young
woman, the carpenter, the mechanic and, above all, my own comrades, the
civil servants of Imo State who don’t know any longer what a payday
looks like.
“When we talk of happiness, we will not
domesticate it in the hands of a sister. The happiness of the great
people of Imo State will be the primary purpose of government under Sen.
Hope Uzodinma,” he said.
According to the APC chairman, due process will be the basis for constructing buildings and building roads.
“One
contract will not be awarded to three people. If it must be awarded, it
will not be awarded to in-laws. It will be awarded to the genuine
businessmen and women of Imo State.
“Never again will any of your governors look at your (traditional) leaders and abuse them because democracy is about people.
“Never
again shall we govern on the basis of family connections. Whether you
know somebody or you don’t, whether you marry from me or I don’t marry
from you, that shall not be the basis for winning the next election,” he said.
Oshiomhole assured families with breadwinners and pensioners who had not been paid for six to nine months that “the
bailout, which President Muhammadu Buhari had given governors,
including the governor of Imo State, and was not used for that purpose,
will be retrieved and our pensioners will smile again.”
He added, “Let
me also say without fear of contradiction that those who are printing
posters and putting President Buhari’s face on it with their face and
logo because their face and party are unknown – those ones are fake.
“President
Buhari has the APC as his party. He is our presidential candidate. He
has adopted Sen. Hope Uzodinma as the governorship candidate.”
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