Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo State said that he was in the Presidential Villa to request the president to visit the state to inaugurate his many projects.

The governor said that he had completed the new cargo airport terminal, warehouses and cargo shelves that needed to be commissioned.

He said he also completed a new police headquarters and a new prison headquarters in the state.

Okorocha said that the aforementioned projects were Federal Government projects undertaken by Imo State Government.

He also listed other projects to include the Justice Oputa Court and the new Imo State High Court complex.

“So, we have well over a thousand projects verifiable to be commissioned; we are requesting Mr President to kindly commission the Federal ones and see how many of the state ones he can commission too.

“The 27 model hospitals are much bigger than the state will need, but those hospitals were built for possible concessions; as people come, they take over the hospitals and equip them.

“But we have some of them running already; the one in Ikeduru is fully running and is being taken over by an American company; we have some taken by some Churches and private organisations.

“That is our style of making Imo State a tourist destination for Nigeria by building those 27 general hospitals, a diagnostic centre, a free child and mother hospital andthe Imo Medical Centre.

“So, put together, we have 30 hospitals with close to 10,000 beds built by this administration; those hospitals are futuristic so to say.

“They have been roofed; they have all been tiled and fenced; what remains is that we are looking for management because if you pack in now, you might not have the need for it; we are talking about the future, not now,’’ he said.

On the Imo State governorship election, Okorocha said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate Emeka Ihedioha, did not win the election as he flouted Section 179 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He said that the returning officer was not fit to be a professor, and should be charged for not respecting the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Okorocha, however, attributed the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s poor performance in the state to the imposition of a candidate by the party’s leadership.

On National Assembly leadership, the governor said that the South-East should be carried along properly for the sake of balance in the politics of the country.

According to him, Buhari is a de-tribalised father who treats every Nigerian equally, irrespective of ethnic nationality or religion.

Okorocha, therefore, said it would be unfair for anybody to paint Buhari as a sectional leader.