Governor, Hope Uzodinma.
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has denied having any
disagreement with his predecessor, Senator Rochas
Okorocha.
He stated this on Tuesday during an interview with reporters at
the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT).
Governor Uzodinma was responding to questions from State House
correspondents on the impasse between him and the former
governor.
He insisted that he has no rift with the former governor,
stressing that Senator Okorocha only needed to recognise that
he is now the governor of the state.
“On the issue of Okorocha, the former governor, he is my very
good brother in who I am well pleased.
“I have no issue with him; the only thing is that he is now the
former governor and I am the current governor and once we
understand that, we don’t have any issue,” Governor Uzodinma
said.
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The governor spoke with reporters after he held a closed-door
meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
He explained that he was at the Villa to seek the intervention
of the President in tackling the problem of erosion in Imo
State.
Commenting on the choice of zoning of presidency ahead of the
2023 general elections, Governor Uzodinma believes it should be
done on party basis and not tribal basis.
His opinion aligned with the views of a former governor of Abia
State and Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzo Kalu, who visited
former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, and former Head of
State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, in Niger State.
Senator Kalu was criticised for describing the office of the
president as an open basket for intending contestants and saying
the idea of zoning was never constitutional.
This comes against the backdrop of clamours by the people of the
South-East that the 2023 presidency should be zones to the
region.
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