Senator Rochas Okorocha, has accused his successor, Emeka Ihedioha, of taking measures to destroy his legacies in Imo state.
Okorocha, immediate past governor of Imo state said this on Thursday while reacting to the conversion of his Eastern Palm University to a campus of the Imo State University (IMSU) by the state government that Ihedioha was destroying his landmark projects.
On Wednesday, the Imo state government announced that the Eastern Palm University at Ogboko Orlu will revert to the government.
But Okorocha thinks that the action was a ploy against him and his family by Ihedioha.
In a statement by Okorocha’s media adviser, Sam Onwuemeodo, he said: “Prof. Njoku’s action only showed the speed and zeal with which the government of the day wants to destroy all the landmark projects of the APC government in the State which Senator Okorocha had headed.”
The statement added that Okorocha had always insisted that the Eastern Palm University was a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) venture.
The statement noted: “The government would have looked at the ideas or vision behind the building of the institutions and their advantages both short-term, and long-term and then take things easy with them, in lieu of being hasty in scrapping them.
“Obviously, the governor was looking at the man behind the institutions, Okorocha, instead of looking at their in-built merits both now and in the nearest future.
“We want to let Governor Ihedioha know that Okorocha had done eight years as governor and cannot be governor again. He should stop acting as if he is in contest with the former governor.”