Former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has been exposed by his former deputy, Jude Agbaso.

Agbaso said: “Rochas Okorocha is undemocratic and self-centered in his approach to governance.”

“Okorocha turned down many sound developmental ideas from me and gave deaf hear to words of advice from other concerned citizens aimed at helping him govern the state well.”

“Yes I had regrets being Deputy Governor to Okorocha especially when you work with people, you make reasonable inputs, but you are being ignored. I give you an instance again, Rochas Okoroch said he was going to build 4,000 kilometers of road network.”

“I told him, this is a practical impossibility. It is unachievable. I knew what our monthly receivable from the Local Governments was. I knew what they were for the State Government.”

“I asked him, why don’t we do this in a planned, concise manner. Why will you be telling people, hey Mr. A do a contract from here to here; no bill of engineering quantities and no description. So because of that, I asserted my decision that I wasn’t going to append my signature on any unreasonably given contract.”

“And after I left, no contract was officially and properly done. None of them worked. The few roads that were constructed like that, couldn’t even last a season. The painful thing was that Imo people lost so much money under Okorocha.”

“When the Governor tells the civil servants, you can work three days in a week and use the rest days of the week to go to the farm. Is that a way to organize the civil service?”

“After I left the Ministry of Works, there are no records during the Rochas years; contracts were awarded in the Government House. No Permanent Secretary, no Director, no Engineer because these are the people that keep records in the ministry.”

“So, it became obvious that Rochas does not listen to all these sound policy suggestions. The mindset was to do what pleased him and it is to the exclusion of building strong institutions.”

For those who don’t know, Jude Agbaso served under Rochas Okorocha during his tenure as the governor of Imo State.

Agbaso was impeached but eventually cleared by the court eight years after.

Agbaso also doubled as the Commissioner of Works under Okorocha’s administration