Imo deputy governor joins race to succeed Okorocha

Embattled Imo state deputy governor and a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Eze Madumere, has said with the vast human and natural resources in the state, Imo does not have any business being at the lowest layer in the comity of states.
Madumere, who was at the headquarters of APC in Abuja yesterday to submit his expression of interest and nomination forms, said he would, as a man of integrity, make only promises that he can keep as a governor, describing leadership without integrity such as the one led by his boss as fraud.
He said after spending 25 years in governance and offering his best pieces of advice to lead the people through a progressive path, he regretted that his effort might not have been good enough.
“However, I have no regret threading this path because God’s ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts.
The time to change the narrative in my dear State for the better is now.
“I believe with my cognate experience in corporate world, public sector and equipped with needed competence, I will turn around the political and socio-economic fortune of my people.
“I have already laid down the oundation on the things we shall set out to achieve, captured in my seven point agenda, which will be unveiled in few days.
“I am not in the governorship race because I have been treated unjustly by anyone.
No.
Not at all! Do not pity me for the onslaught here and there, including impeachment plots for standing for justice, equity, fair play and good governance.
“As an astute Administrator and experienced noble politician, I believe that with vast human and natural resources in the State, we do not have any business being at the lowest layer in the Comity of States.
We shall not only make eloquent promises; we shall make promises that we can keep.
I say so because I have integrity; and leadership without integrity is fraud”.