Buhari In Closed-Door Meeting With Ihedioha 

Buhari In Closed-Door Meeting With Ihedioha 

According to report, President Muhammadu Buhari recently received the governor of Imo state, Emeka Ihedioha, in Aso Rock where they both held a meeting.

Ihedioha disclosed that he was in Aso Rock to solicit for the federal government’s support on re-building Imo from its current alleged sorry state.

The governor said he had been under pressure to commence a probe of the administration of Rochas Okorocha.

President Muhammadu Buhari and the governor of Imo state, Emeka Ihedioha, met behind closed doors on Monday, July 22, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The governor, who spoke with journalists after the meeting, said he was in Aso Rock to solicit Buhari’s intervention on infrastructure decay in Imo state.

Newsmen quoted Ihedioha as saying: “We need the federal government support in all facets of the economy.” He added that the state would need support in the area of agriculture, healthcare and education. The governor said he introduced the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to improve the internally generated revenue instead of overburdening the poor masses. “When I came in, I found out to my shock that there were accounts in the number that was reported in the media and of course so much leakages and we were not as a state making significant progress from the IGR.”

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“The IGR base of the state was very weak and when the IGR base is weak without having a productive economy that obviously meant that we depended essentially from what came from federal allocation and of course other agencies being an oil producing state,” he said.

He said, Imo State is not what it should be at the moment adding that upon assumption of office, he set up a financial advisory committee which recommended the introduction of the TSA. “But for us, we felt we needed to start anew, we needed to confront the issues and begin to reposition our state as a state that will be alive to the demands expected of us by our people.”

“When the electorate voted us in, they believed in our ability to come and transform the state, to reign in a regime of transparency and accountability,” he said that there had been pressures from the people of the state to probe the administration of Okorocha.

He, however, said he is more interested in bringing sanity to governance rather than probing Okorocha’s administration.