Imo State governor, Emeka
Ihedioha has described the immediate past governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha as a
man without character and a hater of Ndigbo.
He said this while lamenting
Okorocha’s decision to discontinue the Ahiajoku Festival and Lecture series.
According to Ihedioha, Okorocha
never valued the culture of Ndigbo.
Ihedioha stated this during the
40th anniversary of the Ahiajoku Lecture held yesterday at the Ahiajoku
Convention Centre, Owerri.
The Governor also lamented that
he inherited from Okorocha a state that is in ruins and one that has suffered
monumental neglect in the last eight years.
He said, “Today, Imo State is on
the march again. Never again a man without character will rule Imo State.”
He noted that ever since the
institution of the Ahiajoku lecture series by the late first civilian governor
of old Imo State, Chief Sam Onunaka Mbakwe, the lecture series has remained an
intellectual and cultural harvest of Igbo people.
He added, “It is important in
this short narrative to note that during what is clearly now properly
categorized as the locust years (2011 – 2018) when a man who rode on the
popularity of an essentially Igbo party to beguile Imo people, but who turned
out to despise everything the Igbo hold dear, a man who limped into Douglas
House Owerri on a lie of the garb, never held the lecture; instead, the name of
Ahiajoku Centre was changed to Imo State Investment Centre and anything that
could amount to an intellectual journey of discovery for the Igbo was shunned
by this man for eight years.
“Even all the cultural artifacts at
the Mbari centre were equally destroyed and termed as idols.”
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