Okorocha steps down Presidential ambition

To continue to provide quality leadership at the state level and to finish his avowed promise of turning Imo State around, the governor of Imo State, Nigeria, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has  literally ‘killed’ his presidential ambition in the All Progressive Alliance and rather preferred to re-contest to make up his second term to the state government House.
The Governor, who cleared the doubts on his position on the governorship of the state in the 2015 election, says he will re-contest his position.
He disclosed that he dropped from his presidential aspiration to the governorship position of the state due to circumstances of the time, adding that it was same circumstance that would propel him to hang on for second term as the governor of the state.
Speaking in Government House, Owerri during his Independent Party with school pupils and teachers, Governor Okorocha said he would not leave office without completing his ongoing monumental projects. According to him, the projects he started so far across the state would take about eight years to complete.
He said his decision changed when the people of the state gave him additional jobs to the one he had promised to do.
Governor Okorocha explained that his administration was currently building 27 General Hospitals across the state instead of the planned nine; 305 modern school blocks instead of the planned 27.
Responding to question from a pupil about the constant visits of the anti-graft officials to the state, the governor admitted that the officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) visits to the state almost on weekly basis because the people of the state are highly known for being petition writers.
He however said that the regular visit of the EFCC to the state and the consequent arrest of government officials had never affected the running of his government.
It would be recalled that during his campaigns before the 2011 gubernatorial election, he made promises of salvaging the state on one term and promised to rescue the state in just one term of four years.
Then he said the first civilian governor of the state, Chief Sam Mbakwe who achieved a lot while governing the state in one term, worked well for the state and that therefore, he would do the same thing.
He told the people of the state then at the Assumpta Cathedral, venue of the 2011 Imo Governorship Debate, that he would carry out all his programmes before four years because “today’s Imo State is smaller and richer than the old Imo where Mbakwe performed well”