Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha at the weekend said President Muhammadu Buhari’s first one year has scored huge successes in all sectors of the economy.
The governor said within a year, the President had laid a solid foundation for a new Nigeria, adding that whoever succeeds him would not grapple with the type of rot he inherited.
Okorocha addressed reporters in Owerri, the state capital, marking the first year of his second tenure in office.
The governor said it would take a man with President Buhari’s strength of character, integrity and global acceptability to rescue the nation from the current socio-economic challenges.
Okorocha, who had announced his formal withdrawal from the 2019 presidential race to support the President for a second tenure, said the President had justified the confidence Nigerians reposed in him by implementing sound economic policies to revamp the economy and restore investors’ confidence.
He said: “Presently, it is only President Buhari who can fix Nigeria. His global acceptability has restored Nigeria’s respect because a nation is rated by the character of its leader. Today, Nigeria is respected globally and foreign investors are now willing to do business in Nigeria. It can only take a Buhari to fight corruption the way he is doing. You can also agree with me that the war against Boko Haram and other insurgents has been largely successful.
“President Buhari may not have built any infrastructure in the first one year but he is laying a strong foundation upon which a better Nigeria will be built.
“Mind you, his first budget has just been passed. After the implementation, Nigerians will appreciate what President Buhari has done. This is so because in the past, no administration achieved over 10 per cent budget implementation. But under Buhari, the budget will record better implementation.”
On his own scorecard, Okorocha said his Rescue Mission administration surpassed previous administrations in providing infrastructure, security and socio-economic development.
The governor noted that in the last five years in the saddle in Imo State, he initiated and completed over 1,000 verifiable projects across the state.
Among them, he said, are over 600 kilometres of rural roads, 27 new general hospitals in each of the 27 local government areas, free education, among other projects.
Okorocha, who pledged to sustain the free education programme, despite the current economic challenges, said the programme had reduced the level of poverty from 57 per cent in 2011 to 19 per cent in 2016.
He said: “We have justifiably utilised the resources of the state in the last five years. We have also prudently managed the local government funds to develop the state.
“We are building the first-ever flyover in the state and, by the time the 27 general hospitals become fully operational, the state will be the next destination for health tourism. I have also completed all the projects abandoned in the state the military era till date.”
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Bla, bla bla. You constructed 600 km of roads without gutters. When it rains the roads becomes swimming pool. Imo-State is one of the most indebted states in Nigeria even as an oil producing state. It is very shameful to stand here
ReplyDeleteand claim that you have done what Napoleon could not do.
Same pple. Aboki. What else do u hv to say?
ReplyDeleteAnuohia go and pay civil servants their prolonged salary.aboki ndi igbo.shame on you rochas, people voted you in thinking that you are going to continue with your charity , they never knew you scammed all those out for governorship. You are the highest diabolical criminal of the millennium. God will judge you
ReplyDeleteOkorocha, shame on u
ReplyDeleteIt is only you and your party that is praising him as for the masses who are facing hardship as a result of you peoples'cornny into power by do or die affairs has no business with your praises
ReplyDeletepls someone should help. my gramatical accuracy is failing me or what. pls what is thw current meaning of HUG SUCCESS？ am i the person losing my diction or okorocha. pls when has the english change the meaning of success. in nigeria every economic indics is showing downward movement. masses are suffering，people are losing their jobs， cost of living is times two—a bag of rice now sold for 17000 to 20000
ReplyDeleteno light， people are been killed everywhere， HBP of nigerians are rising.landlords and tenants are fighting it out in the court， business are closing down. pls someone should reassure me that these are signs of sucessful government. if in the other hand that means okorocha is a caward of highiest order.
ROCHAS WE KNOW' bc he is not sharing money like his predecessors, he now has a negative tag on him. Rochas remain one of d best governors in niaja.
ReplyDeleteWe certainly have justifiably put to use a options of your think within the last few all five ages. We certainly have as well prudently succeeded any local administration capital to set new york state.
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