The Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere, has said that he is better qualified and more competent than his estranged principal, Governor Rochas Okorocha.
He declared that he would run the state better than the governor if given the opportunity.
Madumere said: “I have tried hard not to join issues with Governor Okorocha. All I can tell you is that I am more qualified and have better pedigree to govern Imo State than Rochas Okorocha; and I will do better as a Governor than what Rochas Okorocha has done. As a deputy governor, I rightly chose to take the side of the people than the side of the Okorocha family.”
He was reacting to Okorocha’s interview on BBC Igbo Service, where he claimed that one of the reasons he chose his son-in-law over others was the issue of competence.
Okorocha and Madumere have been at loggerheads over the primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The deputy governor had wanted to succeed the governor, but Okorocha prefers his former Chief of Staff and son in-law, Uche Nwosu for the APC gubernatorial ticket.
Madumere said that Okorocha would not have been where he is today, without his tutelage and grooming.
He explained that without him, there would not have been today’s Rochas Okorocha who, of course, would not have become governor.
The number two citizen regretted that Okorocha could blackmail and talk down on members of cabinet who helped him attain success.
He wondered why Okorocha would have the temerity to insult him, describing him as incompetent when he was the one that actually developed Okorocha from his crude state to what he is today.
He disclosed that he had refused to join issues with the governor for obvious reason of not destroying what God has used him to build.
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