Going by the unwritten but well-heeled practice of rotating Imo governorship position among three various senatorial zones since 1999, it will appear to be invidious or unfair for the practice to be abandoned midway or before it runs full of ordained course, on the basis of certain gratuitous reasoning or imbalance, chief among which is this phony-merit criterion underdiscus.

Unfortunately, the Owerri Senatorial Zone is the only zone in the circle, yet to produce a governor even if it’s one term, even as per the arrangement.

This state-appeal prescription for rotation, though not a stipulation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic or of the extant electoral law is happily commonly shared by the state’s major zonal political structures, not-minding as it is envisioned by jokers as a stablising plank.

Ostensibly, many misguided statements have ignored this salutary requirement to remain faithful to the necessity to preserve Imo, having exposed intermidiatly the paradox of selective dictatorship, sometimes an overbearing judicial pronouncements and or external influence/authority possessing near-absolute powers, regrettably not theoretical but able to exercise them in practice. No blame apportioned and a discus for another day.

However, this general disaffecting action with the way our state is run is the reason for the expressed or muffled zonal agitations. Owerri Zone have shouted themselves hoarse for the enthronement of an enabling environment for relieving the state’s recurrent political, social and economic equity and unbalancing difficulties.