“I exhumed Imo from cemetery” — Uzodinma brags about achievements as governor

Imo State  Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has bragged about his achievements as the governor of the state, claiming that in three years of his tenure, a lot of things are there for people to know that there is a huge difference.

Uzodinma claimed that he met the State in a bad condition that could be likened to a cemetery when he assumed office in 2020 but he graciously exhumed the body.

Uzodinma on Wednesday while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme said, “When I came to Imo State, I met a moribund state, a state that was in distress. A state, I can even say, was in the cemetery; I exhumed the body.”

The governor also claimed that “the infrastructure deficit in the State was so huge, all the roads were not motorable, and all the hospitals were not working” when entered office.

“Given the situation in Imo State before 2020 when I became the governor and the situation of Imo State today, 2023, three years after, a lot of things are there for people to know that there is a huge difference”.

In January 2020, the Supreme Court of Nigeria nullified the election of Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of Imo State and declared Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the March 9, 2019 governorship election in the state.

In a unanimous judgment of a seven-member panel, read by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the apex court agreed that results in 388 polling units were unlawfully excluded during the collation of the final governorship election result in Imo State.