The Imo State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Imo State government of hyping over
Commissioning of incomplete road projects as well as recommissioning of the Imo
State House of Assembly Complex which was built and commissioned over four
decades ago.
Buhari, who arrived Imo State through
the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport at about 11am (Nigerian time) headed
straight to Orlu with a Chopper to inaugurate the Owerri-Orlu dual carriage way
as well as Owerri-Okigwe road and the rebuilt State House of Assembly complex.
PDP, in a statement on Monday issued by
its spokesperson, Collins Opurozor, alleged that state governor, Hope Uzodimma,
was luring Buhari to the state to inaugurate uncompleted projects.
The main opposition, which stated that
the governor had ditched the state into a financial mess, contended that the
Assembly complex was built over 30 years ago by a former state governor, Sam
Mbakwe.
PDP’s statement partly read, “Our party,
therefore, condemns the move to bring President Buhari to Imo State to
re-commission a 30-year-old repainted complex and the uncompleted Owerri-Okigwe
Road. The President should not bow to self-serving pressures from Uzodinma to
lend his exalted office for such caricature. We challenge Uzodinma to take
President Buhari through the road set for commissioning to prove that it is
truly in existence.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Imo
State House of Assembly Complex, the best in Nigeria, was built and
commissioned by Chief Sam Mbakwe in 1983. The project was handled by an
indigenous firm, Okigwe Construction Company, owned by Chief John Enyogasi.
“For Imo PDP, therefore, Uzodinma’s
attempt to take credit for Mbakwe’s landmark project is an intolerable
dimension to his insult and disrespect to Mbakwe, and it is the most audacious
attack on the memory of the late respected leader.
“What makes the issue more outrageous is
that President Mohammadu Buhari, who Uzodinma has concluded plans to bring for
the festival of shame, has always been known for his abiding disdain for the
progress and development of Imo State. Recall that in 1983, the military regime
of Buhari put our hero, Dee Sam Mbakwe, in prison for daring to develop Imo.
“In 2020, the regime of President Buhari
again stopped the progress of Imo State by terminating the tenure of the duly
elected Governor, the Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and installing the unelected and
unelectable Hope Uzodinma. Now in 2022, he is being invited to re-commission
one of the signature projects of Chief Mbakwe so as to fully participate in the
ridiculing of the late quintessential leader. The spirit of Dee Sam will rise
to fight these unrepentant enemies.”
But in a statement, the state government
said that the PDP in the state was suffering from political frustration.
The Senior Special Assistant to the
Governor on Print Media, Modestus Nwamkpa, said that PDP was crying because
Uzodimma was building projects the PDP’s past administrations in the state
abandoned for over a decade.
“There is nothing political frustration
cannot cause the fast decaying Imo PDP. In the first place, the projects the
president is coming to commission like the completely dualized 35km Owerri to
Orlu road with street lights, the first phase of the 48 km Owerri to Okigwe
road, and the remodeled ultra modern Imo House of Assembly complex which was
abandoned to rot away for so many years throughout the PDP era already
generating global commendation, and that is why Imo PDP is urinating in their
pants.
“They are panicking because they know
Uzodimma has opened Imo people’s eyes to what real good governance is. They are
now afraid that with what Uzodimma has achieved in under two years, they might
be stoned if they ever come out tomorrow to ask for votes again from the Imo
people.
“It is shameful for Imo PDP to agree
that a complex that was built 40 years ago by Sam Mbakwe was allowed to
collapse completely until Uzodimma came to completely remodel, rehabilitate and
reconstruct the complex with the latest state of the Art gadgets, the best
currently in not Nigeria but arguably the best in Africa. The question is: What
did they (PDP) do when they were in office except expanding the personal
village and Owerri houses of their Governor?
“By the way, PDP did not tell the world
that the same Governor Uzodimma is today equally renovating the village House
of the former Sam Mbakwe," he stated.
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