I owe no apology for inviting Zuma, raising his statue – Okorocha

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has charged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of not building the picture of the state, and additionally plundering public treasury. 

The allegation comes days after he uncovered a tremendous statue in hounour of South African President, Jacob Zuma. 

The choice has been broadly censured as supporting the administration style of a president who is confronting defilement accusations in his nation. 

All the more thus, the respect was done Mr. Zuma few days after another Nigerian, Jelili Omoyele, a 35-year-old, was killed in South Africa. 

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Sam Onwuemeodo, on Tuesday said the PDP never pulled in any significant identity to the state. 

"If it was in the days of PDP, Schools and Markets would have been shot down. And roads closed because President Zuma was coming. But none of such things was done

because Rochas and his government have human face. The PDP for the 12 years they held sway never attracted any meaningful visitor to the State except PDP NEC members who were coming to loot the State,” the statement read.

Mr. Onwuemeodo in the announcement likewise clarified the reason behind the senator's motion, saying Mr. Zuma's visit was essentially to sign a MoU between Jacob Zuma Education Foundation and Rochas Foundation College of Africa. 

Besides, he said a meeting was likewise held with Mr. Zuma and other agents at the Ikemba Ojukwu focus, including Leo Stan Ekeh of Zinox Computers, Dr. Pascal Dozie of Diamond Bank, Chairman of Innoson Motors, and a large group of others. 

After the meeting, the state government chose to support the South African president to accomplish increasingly and valued him for dropping by respecting him with a Merit Award and raising his statue, the announcement included. 

In a non-remorseful way, Mr. Onwuemeodo said Gov. Rochas was resolved to convey improvement to Imo state and would not be prevented by reactions. 

"What's more, in the event that these "Galatians" don't have the foggiest idea, if all we have to do to pull in great things or speculations to Imo is raising statues, at that point, we have no choice than to erect however many of such structures as could be expected under the circumstances. We owe nobody statement of regret. Rochas made a guarantee to open the entryways of Imo to whatever remains of the world, for good and he is doing that and we can't be discouraged by these adversaries of our kin," he said. 

The signal had before made boundless reactions particularly via web-based networking media. 

Just as of late, Governor Rochas responded to a screenshot of his checked Twitter handle reacting to a blogger, Japheth Omojuwa's tweet. 

Gov. Rochas denied insulting the blogger, saying the circling screenshot was a Photoshop. 

Mr. Omojuwa however rebuffed the governor, blaming him for deleting the tweet seconds after the answer.