The insinuation that the relocation Committee set up by Governor Rochas Okorocha, to look into the permanent site of Imo State University, IMSU, in the Owerri Zone would tear up the area has failed.
According to latest development, the people of Owerri Zone have come out of the trap more united and unscathed by agreeing in unison that the Institution should remain at the permanent site earlier agreed by the founding fathers of old Imo State, including late Dr Sam Mbakwe.
Information reaching Imo Trumpeta has it that Owerri Zone has agreed on Aboh Mbaise/Ngor Okpala site, which has been chosen as the permanent site for Imo State University about twenty years ago.
Already, the Senator representing Owerri Zone at the National Assembly, Senator Chris Anyanwu has declined to participate in the committee appointed by Gov Okorocha to look for another site in Owerri Zone for the Institution.
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has also declined to serve in the committee, including Chief Martin Agbaso, whose brother is the Deputy Governor, and chairman of the committee.
This scenario has depleted the committee members and rid it of prominent sons and daughters of Owerri Zone, whose voices would give authority to the committee and its findings.
This development has surprised other zones in Imo State, including Gov Rochas Okorocha, whom many accused of deliberately setting up the committee to create division within Owerri zone and polarize the area.
The out – come has cast a good omen on Owerri Zone as it fights together in unity for Imo 2015 governorship, which has eluded the zone since the inception of the current democratic dispensation.
It would be recalled that Gov Okorocha after being sworn – in last year, through a verbal announcement said Imo State University has been relocated to his village at Ogboko in Ideator South LGA.
Following incessant lampoonings of his administration because of the obnoxious decision, the Governor last month made a u – turn and said that IMSU has been relocated to Owerri Zone, with the caveat that a committee would be set up to find a suitable site for the Institution in Owerri Zone.
Many feared that this situation would create division among the LGAs in Owerri Zone, but the latest development has buried any fear that Owerri Zone would tear apart before 2015 general elections.
