Imo State: Between The Devil And Deep Blue Sea
By Charles Onunaiju Never in the recent history of any people have their prospects of been so bleak and in dire straits as what stares the hard working people of Imo state in the face right now, starting from the debacle of Mr. Rochas Okorocha’s near eight year comic rule to the prospects of extending the governance nightmare to another four years. *Gov Rochas Okorocha The recent choice of candidates for the top job in the state by the two major parties, the All Progressive Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is chillingly harrowing. The two earlier contenders in the ruling APC, Mr. Hope Uzodimma, a serving senator, who first claimed to have won the primaries has nothing in his pedigree either in business, career, profession or even politics to recommend him for the top job in the state, which for all its seeming glamour is a burden for which any worthy occupant must toil in privation and humility while radiating only uncommon ...