THE governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has stated that the outcome of the presidential election in Imo State will have no influence on the state’s approaching governorship election in November.
The Labour Party received almost 300,000 votes in Imo State’s presidential election on February 25, compared to 66,171 votes for Uzodimma’s All Progressives Congress.
Uzodimma, on the other hand, said the governorship contest is a different kettle of fish, and that he has what it takes to win a second term in office in the November 11 poll.
“Presidential election in Nigeria is not calculated or used to assess governorship election. In a presidential election, the result is called according to votes in all states of Nigeria. In the number of votes cast in Nigeria, APC won.
“In the governorship election, the result will be based on votes cast in Imo State. And until that is done nobody is going to beat his chest to tell you this is going to be the result,” Uzodimma said today on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
In addition, the governor stated that the hypographic survey/dredging of the sea passage from Oguta Lake to the Atlantic Ocean, which was flagged off today, will produce 500,000 jobs by the time it is completed.
Although Uzodimma stated that specific data for all of the project’s advantages cannot be ascertained at this early stage, he is optimistic that it will produce enough jobs to combat young unemployment.
“We are at the conception stage of the project and the latest now which is the flagging-off of the project is what we call preliminary engineering. It is after the preliminary engineering that we will now do the detailed engineering by which time the necessary data required to have a high integrity detailed engineering would have been gotten.
“However, from the point of concept, it is assumed that on completion this project is capable of generating 500,000 jobs,” Uzodimma said.
“The agitation you see in the South-East, the confusion you see in Nigeria, the radicality you see among our youths can be blamed on idleness, unemployment and I am sure that the Federal Government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari is interested in creating employment for our youth,” the governor added.
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