Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has assured the electorate that the November 11, 2023 governorship election will be free, fair, credible and transparent.
He, however, urged the voters to defend their votes after casting their ballot in order to guard against manipulation.
Governor Uzodimma spoke at the inauguration of the Imo Progressives Movement (IPM), an organisation, which the convener and member of the House of Representatives for Ohaji/ Egbema/ Oguta/ Oru West federal constituency, Hon Eugene Dibiagwu, said was formed to support the reelection of the governor and chart a new political paradigm for the state.
The governor reassured the electorate, particularly the Imo youths that the environment would be made conducive for them to cast their ballot.
Uzodimma told Imo youths that he would also create a conducive environment that will guarantee wealth creation, poverty alleviation, provision of scholarship and standard education.
According to him, civil servants will receive their salaries, infrastructure will be provided and Imo people will make money, prosperity and development achieved.
Responding to his endorsement for a second tenure by the IPM members, the governor thanked the group for its wonderful support, noting that “the march for a new Imo and the road map is largely dependent on the members of the IPM.”
He reiterated that he will continue to serve by way of providing tangible and intangible dividends of democracy and expressed gratitude to members of IPM for their show of support, assuring that he will not take such support for granted.
The governor used the opportunity to bemoan the opposition for sponsoring killings, thereby stopping people from going to farm, going to market, attending to their trade and work places and asked the sponsors of insecurity to remember that God is at work. He also beckoned on the youths who are still living in the bush to come out “because the work they are doing from there is that of the devil.”
