Since the creation of Imo State, it is obvious that our common desire to get to the Promised Land has not been realised. Different leaders at different times have played their different roles towards achieving this common objective.
In spite of the efforts of these leaders, this dream seems to be far from realised. Rather, what we see today are leaders blaming leaders and leaders making excuses for their failures. Insecurity has remained on a very high scale, with kidnapping becoming the order of the day. Basic infrastructures such as water, electricity, roads, etc, which ought to be the civil responsibility of government have become a mere theoretical jingle which does not reflect any practical reality.
Corruption has taken a new dimension as leaders now engage in primitive accumulation of wealth at the expense of the ordinary man. More worrisome is the fact that our state now produces more poor and executive beggars depending on their ranks, which is completely alien to our culture thereby leading to the total destruction of the dignity of Ndi-Imo. There seems to be no future for this generation and the future generation.
I know that as leaders, you share in these same views which I have expressed. Something therefore has to be done because if we do not act quickly in the present situation which our ugly condition points out to us, we will be destroying the psyche of this generation and indeed the future generation of Ndi-Imo. History will definitely hold us responsible.
For these reasons, the challenge before us needs an urgent attention, and to achieve this, we must elect tested and credible leaders with track records who can afford to put food on the table of the common man irrespective of their class, religious inclination, zone or local government of origin.
Let our agenda be the agenda of issues based on the improvement of our state, deeply rooted in the development of our people and not on sentiments which have brought nothing but pain, anger, bitterness, and poverty.
My prayer for our state is that the Almighty God in his infinite mercy grant us the wisdom to elect the right leaders at ward, local government and state levels who are willing to make sacrifices that will take our state to the Promised Land.
For me, I have decided to make that sacrifice even for our state. Let us work together to build the Imo of our dreams and collective aspiration. IMO MUST BE BETTER!
Long live Imo State! Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
Thanks and God bless.
Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha
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