The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has pledged to return the state to the people, by running an inclusive government.

He also assured he will ensure civil servants and pensioners are paid and bring to book all those who have looted the state’s treasury, property and impoverished civil servants and pensioners, through illegal deductions of their entitlements.

Senator Uzodinma, who spoke in a campaign tour that took him to nine local government areas of the state, said the best way of returning the state to the people is to democratise the third tier of government and involve the stakeholders in governance.

“I’ll run an accountable, inclusive and transparent government, where all the stakeholders will make an input. Since I don’t have a monopoly of knowledge and since democracy is about the people, we shall ensure the people have a say on the way they are governed,” he said.

The APC governorship candidate accused Governor Rochas Okorocha of reducing governance to a personal and family affair, thus, taking away from Imo people the right to determine their affairs.

“All I’ve been doing is to try and wrestle Imo from Okorocha and his family. We have to collectively stop them from the unholy ambition of building a family dynasty at the expense of Imo people. That is the essence of this struggle.”

He said the plan of the out-going governor was to install his son-in-law, so as to cover his atrocities in office and escape justice.

“We know who owns 50 per cent of the property in Imo State. We know those who are keeping pensioners’ money and the salary of civil servants in the name of proportionate payment. In fullness of time, they will be made to account for it,” Uzodinma said.

The APC candidate averred that Okorocha is now frustrated and angry because he has been denied the chance of using APC as the ruling party to enthrone his son-in law as governor.

•Sourced from a Daily Sun report

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