Why Uzodinma Was Re-elected – Oshiomhole Discloses
Former All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Senator Adams Oshiomhole has said that the performance of the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma led to his re-election in the November 11 off-cycle election.
Oshiomhole argued that Uzodinma’s performance endeared him to the hearts of the electorate.
He stated this yesterday in Abuja while speaking to State House reporters after a meeting with Vice President Kashim Shettima.
The senator insisted that sponsored commentary on television and blogs failed to influence the mindset of the electorates because they saw the good works of Uzodinma.
According to him, “The people chose based on the performance of the governor in the last four years.
“There have been a lot of forces working to undermine security in the state, and they’ve resorted to measures that are adding tension in Imo and some people even want to plunge the state into darkness, believing that when it is dark, the people cannot vote.
“But, my take away from the Imo election is that these forgotten majority of people who are voiceless, who can’t even have access to you, have the power of the ballot.
“That it is not what sponsored commentators say on television or sponsored writers write in newspapers that will inform their judgment, their judgments will be formed by what they have seen the governor doing, and those aspect of what the governor is doing that touch them.
“For example, when the governor constructs a road to the village, a village that was not accessible before and you tell those villagers that the governor is bad. They’ll say ‘he may be bad for you o, but he’s good for me’.
“When I saw the governor commissioning a very modern hospital in a remote area and you go on television to say ‘that Governor Hope is a bad man,’they’ll say ‘he’s bad to you, but he gave us hospital. We are going to give him our votes.
“For me, that is the beauty of democracy and it also put on notice, commentators that they shouldn’t sit in the comfort of state capitals and comment almost with managerial confidence about the goings on in the state when they have never even visited that state.“
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