Adams Oshiomhole Discloses Why Governor Hope Uzodinma Was Re-elected

Adams Oshiomhole, former APC National Chairman revealed that Governor Hope Uzodinma’s re-election on November 11 was attributed to his commendable performance in Imo State.

Oshiomhole emphasized that the electorate was swayed by Uzodinma’s accomplishments, dismissing the impact of sponsored commentary on TV and blogs.

He asserted that the people’s decisions were influenced by the governor’s tangible achievements, such as road construction and the establishment of a modern hospital in a remote area.

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Adams Oshiomhole Speaking To State House Reporters In Abuja

According to him, “The people chose based on the performance of the governor in the last four years.

There have been a lot of forces working to undermine security in the state, and they’ve resorted to measures that are adding tension in Imo and some people even want to plunge the state into darkness, believing that when it is dark, the people cannot vote.

But, my takeaway from the Imo election is that this forgotten majority of voiceless people, who can’t even have access to you, have the power of the ballot. 

It is not what sponsored commentators say on television or sponsored writers write in newspapers that will inform their judgment, their judgments will be formed by what they have seen the governor doing, and the aspects of what the governor is doing that touch them. 

For example, when the governor constructs a road to the village, a village that was not accessible before and you tell those villagers that the governor is bad. They’ll say ‘he may be bad for you o, but he’s good for me. 

When I saw the governor commissioning a very modern hospital in a remote area and you go on television to say ‘that Governor Hope is a bad man,’ they’ll say ‘he’s bad to you, but he gave us hospital. We are going to give him our votes.

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For me, that is the beauty of democracy and it also put on notice, commentators that they shouldn’t sit in the comfort of state capitals and comment almost with managerial confidence about the goings on in the state when they have never even visited that state”. 

Oshiomhole highlighted the significance of grassroots perceptions over distant commentators and urged against making judgments without firsthand experience in the state.