 Politics › Re: Lord Rochas Okorocha And His Son-in-law Project by conehead2018: 7:13pm On Mar 10, 2018 |
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By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo
Rochas Okorocha is his own enemy. He preaches power rotation and Igbo presidency in Abuja. But at home, he wants to keep the Imo governorship in his family’s piggy bank. He has built more roads than any other governor in Imo state’s history. But he is known outside the state only for puerility and building of statues. Okorocha has energy and drive. But he lacks circumspection and sense of optics.
He let’s his ego and fantasies intrude and tarnish his industry and purposefulness. It is true his opponents have exploited the rich vein of animosity against Hausa Fulani hegemony. He wouldn’t be the butt of all these jokes if he were hauling missiles of bigotry at Buhari from APGA or the PDP. But no other man with his political vulnerability would arm his opponents like Okorocha.
Okorocha is ambitious. And that’s not a bad thing. But self confidence that rears its head without self restraint could be more destructive than arrogance. In small things and in big things, Rochas Okorocha pays no respect to his audience and its sensibilities. Okorocha wanted to stem the rising tide of narcotics consumption in the state. He chose to compare that evil with armed robbery, needlessly. He got lost in translation. He ended, leaving his audience with a moral confusion. The video clips of a governor suggesting that armed robbery was a lesser crime than drug abuse went viral and accentuated the image of a bumbling clown the virulent opposition had created for him. But Okorocha isn’t a clown.
He thinks Imo state is too small a stage for him. He believes he has outstanding abilities. He craves a national or global role. That’s heart warming. No one wants a shiftless surfeited leader who seeks no promotion and is unmindful of history. But in cobbling a track record, Rochas has deployed a brand of imagination that doesn’t yield to circumspection and doesn’t acknowledge raised eyebrows. A streak of precarious single-mindedness. An abject deprivation of collegiate thoughtful decision making process. Rochas is a loose canon.
He builds roads and lavishes money on pillars that would be used for Christmas decorations. His sister oversees the decorations. He pays more attention to the quantity rather than the quality of roads. It catches his fancy, he mounts a hundred meter high huge hand sculpture somewhere, just somewhere. Some hospitals have been completed for years but he hasn’t thought of equipping them. So they are locked away. You can’t fault him for industry. He is restless.
He thinks of Imo airline. It sounds nice. He gets a plane and hands it to Dana Airline. And Imo is written on it. He commissions it. That’s all. He thinks the people need to farm. He thinks state civil servants who are owed salaries are idle. He doesn’t retrench. He asks state civil servants to work three days in the office and stay in their farms on Thursdays and Fridays. He ignores raised eyebrows. He is committed to innovation. He is not afraid of trying new things. But many of them quite frankly have been absurd. He gets fed up with the farming experiment, he cancels it overnight.
He thinks the state owes so much in pensions. He thinks he can’t pay it all. He asks owed pensioners to sign away a huge percentage of owed pensions. He rebuffs questions about the morality of such coercion. His name and the weird idea spreads around the country. No one hears about the hospitals he has built in all the local government areas in Imo state. No one hears of his free education programmes. They hear of a certain Rochas who approximates Charlie Spencer Chaplin.
He looks at his people, his people. He sees suffering. He announces a commissioner for happiness. Not such a bad idea. But it is his sister again. His opponents go to town with mockery. Rochas sneers at them in superciliousness. No one hears that he has tarred the road that runs in front of my ancestral home in Orodo. That road had been promised by every regime since Ochefu and Atom Kpera. They all failed. He did it.
Rochas has done more roads than other governors. But no governor has exhibited more unbridled self aggrandizement than Rochas Okorocha. He says he is gifted with the brain of a genius. So he embraces informality and disdains processes. He is easy going, self effacing. But all people see is greed. No governor has appointed more relatives into top government positions than Rochas Okorocha. His son-in-law is Chief of staff. His sister is his deputy chief of staff and commissioner. The ministerial position allocated to the state came, he gave it to his daughter’s father-in-law.
Rumours that Rochas wanted to perpetuate himself in office sprouted. They sounded so outlandish. Rochas wants to be the senate president. He would like to be president of the country and perhaps AU chairman, sometime in the future. Rochas wants to be an icon like Mandela. Imo is too small for him. But the rumours now have a foundation. He says his son-in-law must be governor. He says his in-law is the most qualified for the job.
He can support whomsoever he chooses. And a son-in-law isn’t necessarily disqualified by virtue of whom he married. He could actually be the most qualified. Rochas has worked hard to make his endorsement count. But he is set to be remembered as a power hungry man who is motivated only by self interest. Yes, same Rochas who was once synonymous with generosity and philanthropy. In a country where democracy and political morality include power rotations and quota system, Rochas Okorocha should let another family try.
He says God ordained it .His family must be filled with the sort of geniuses that aren’t found in other places. It may actually not be out of the reach of his fantasy to create a Kennedy type dynasty. And attribute it to God. Rochas is innovative, ambitious and irrepressible. He needs tact.
If all politicians in Africa thought like Rochas, then countries could all become family corporations. Because without institutions, and without transparency and accountability, any African president could, with a little dose of tyranny, perpetuate his family and generations over his country. If Awolowo and Zik and Sarduana had the sort of imagination that Rochas has, people like Rochas Okorocha who came from the lowest rungs of the society would never be governors.
I like Rochas Okorocha. I only wish he could once in a while step out of himself. Perhaps, he would gain a little self-restraint.
https://vanguardngr.com/2018/03/lord-rochas-okorocha-son-law-project/ op in as much as I agree with you in some areas but I strongly doubt the area you said he has built more roads than any other govt in IMO history I think you missed it.Dee sam remains the only indisputable champion in that area,come to think that roads alone is the problem of the state is myopic and absurd. Other govs ruled IMO with every other sector functioning to its capacity on like Mr fraud of a governor who robs peter to pay Paul still ends up constructing substandard roads for people to celebrate...did it occur to you that Rocha's is the only governor in history that construct one portion of road six times in a year? Rocha's should quietly go back ogboko after his miserable tenure he has notting to offer. |
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| Politics › Re: Top 5 Most Popular Governors In Nigeria by conehead2018: 6:52pm On Mar 10, 2018 |
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Good day readers In this post, you will find out a genuine compilation of the Top 5 most popular Governors in Nigeria currently.
1, Peter Ayodele Fayose : Peter Ayodele Fayose is the current governor of Ekiti State. He was governor from 29 May 2003 to 16 October 2006.
He is nicknamed by many Nigerians as the; "People's Governor".
He is obviously the most popular governor in due to his controversies and his relationship with the Federal government since President Muhammad Buhari's Swearing in as Nigeria's President.
He publicly announced Buhari dead when he was abroad and also was the first Nigerian to declare his ambition to run for the 2019 Presidential Election.
2, Rochas Okorocha - Imo State: He won the 6 May 2011 gubernatorial election in Imo State and was reelected for his second term on April 11, 2015. He is the founder of Rochas Foundation, a charity comprising a number of special schools that are spread all over Nigeria that gives scholarship to the less privileged children in the Nigerian society.
Okorocha has also earned popularity due to his "Statue Building" habit with Jacub Zuma, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf among those whom statues were built.
Who doesn't know the self acclaimed "The Most Popular Governor In Nigeria"
3. Akinwumi Ambode- Lagos State : What popularity do you need again when you're the executive governor of Lagos?
The governor proved of critics wrong at the moment he is still rated at the top of the perfrtoming governors in Nigeria.
Being the governor of Lagos state makes you famous nationwide even though he's not been a governor for long it is obvious he well known by many Nigerians, and when it comes to popularity the Lagosians are starting to show support for the governor. Considering the fact that the other ranked governors on this list are merited on controversies, Ambode is the only one who is free of controversies here which shows he's up there amongst Africa's Finest
4. Nyelsom Wike - Rivers State
The most famous governor in the whole of South South, Wike's popularity could be based on his incessant quarrel with his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi while he is also famous for his projects in Rivers since becoming the state Governor .
The governor has showcased varieties of developmental projects such as housing, health care, security of life and property, operation zero pot holes, employment, empowerment, completion of projects that were abandoned by previous governments.”
Other achievements include prompt payments of civil servant salaries and pensions, clearing of school fees of Rivers State indigene studying abroad that were abandoned by his predecessor in office. There's no denial that he is in the top 5 of the most famous governor in Nigeria
5. Mallam Nasir El-Rufai - Kaduna State: The incumbent Governor of Kaduna State and former Director General of The Bureau of Public Enterprises, the head privatisation agency in Nigeria and also the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja from 16 July 2003 to 29 May 2007. When it comes to fame the governor is quite known by many across the country for the public offices he's held in the past while he's also gone viral in recent times for the Teachers Sacking Saga as well as his Fight with Sen Shehu
DISCLAIMER: The names above with points related to the article are purely nothing but my personal opinion. I purely have nothing against anybody. Any correction you find worthy should be dropped in the comment section of this particular post. Thank you. op I believe you should place a yard stick in this your record..if its popularity for the wrong reasons then Rocha's should be no 1. |
