Governor Hope Uzodimma has boasted of transforming Imo State from January 15, 2020 when he took office till date.

Uzodimma said this on Wednesday, while fielding questions on a Channels Television programme, “Politics Today.”
According to him, the state could be likened to a body exhumed from a cemetery and put life into once again.

Uzodimma was enthroned on January 14, 2020, when the Supreme Court declared him the lawfully elected governor of the state, sacking Emeka Ihedioha, who had been in office for seven months and two weeks.

The governor, who hinted that the state was in a state of disrepair when he assumed office after taking the oath of office, said: “Given the situation in Imo State before 2020 when I became the governor and the situation of it today, 2023, three years after, a lot of things are there for people to now know that there is a huge difference.

“When I came on board, I met a moribund state that was in distress. A state I can even say that was in the cemetery; I exhumed the body.

“Can you imagine a state where I came as the governor and everybody absconded? No handover note. There was no compass for me to navigate the aircraft.

“After harvesting information from ‘official and unofficial quarters,’ I was able to establish a nominal roll.”

He noted that he re-established the civil service, which he regarded as the engine room of government.
Uzodimma hinted that he created a payroll and rehabilitated the infrastructure, which he described as hitherto being in a dilapidated situation, adding: “The infrastructure deficit was so huge, all the roads were not motorable and all the hospitals were not working. I started work immediately.”

The former senator, who represented Imo East Senatorial District, said he would work towards employing numerous youths to make the state’s 27 local councils vibrant, economically, politically and socially viable.