Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo state, has described President Bola Tinubu as another Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, who transformed the country into a global economic powerhouse.
Tunde Rahman, director of media and publicity of the Renewed
Hope Ambassadors, in a statement on Saturday, said the governor praised
Tinubu’s bold economic reforms and said his performance would earn him a second
term in 2027.
Uzodimma spoke on Friday during a state dinner at the Imo
government house to mark the end of a three-day media inspection tour organised
by the Renewed Hope Ambassadors and the presidential communications team.
“In President Bola Tinubu, we have another Lee Kuan Yew,”
the governor said.
Uzodimma said Tinubu assumed office prepared to address
Nigeria’s economic challenges through far-reaching reforms, adding that the
country had entered a new phase of development.
“The old order is gone and there is now a new order.
President Tinubu knew exactly what he came to do,” he said.
“He started implementing the reforms immediately because he
understood the task before him.”
According to the statement, Uzodimma compared Nigeria’s
pre-reforms economic situation to the bondage of the biblical Israelites in
Egypt, saying that just as God delivered the Israelites through difficult
circumstances, the president’s bold decisions were necessary to free Nigeria
from years of economic stagnation.
The governor added that the reforms came with initial
hardship but are already yielding positive results, particularly through
increased revenues available to states for infrastructure and human capital
development.
“Everything we are doing in Imo today is made possible
because of the Renewed Hope Agenda,” he said.
“We are pursuing sustainable development, investing in
infrastructure, healthcare, education and technology because the reforms have
created the enabling environment for development.”
Uzodimma said he is confident that Nigerians would reward
Tinubu with another term in office in 2027, noting that the benefits of the
administration’s policies would become increasingly evident.
Sunday Dare, special adviser to the president on media and
public communication, praised Uzodimma for the state’s infrastructure
transformation following the three-day inspection tour.
Dare said the projects demonstrated the implementation of
Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda through collaboration between the federal and Imo
state governments.
Some of the projects inspected are the Imo Digital City, the
2,000-bed Infectious Disease Centre, the Heart Transplant Centre in Orlu, the
University of Innovation, Science and Technology at Omuma, the expansion of the
Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu International Convention Centre, and the Orlu-Akokwa-Uga
border road.
The three-day media tour, attended by more than 40 senior
editors and journalists, was organised by the Renewed Hope Ambassadors in
conjunction with the presidential communications team.
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