The outcome of Imo State’s presidential election, according to Governor Hope Uzodimma, won’t have any impact on the state’s approaching governorship election in November.
In the Imo State presidential election on February 25, the Labour Party received almost 300,000 votes, as opposed to the 66,171 votes received by Uzodimma’s APC.
The governorship race, according to Uzodimma, is a different matter entirely. He believes he has what it takes to win a second term in office on November 11.
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“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 on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.
The governor also discussed the hypographic survey and dredging of the sea passage from Oguta Lake to the Atlantic Ocean, which was flagged off on Thursday. He said that when the project is finished, it will have created 500,000 employment.
Even though Uzodimma stated that precise information about all the project’s benefits cannot be assessed at this early stage, he is optimistic that it would generate enough jobs to address young unemployment.
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“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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