The Imo State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has said that the state has entirely crumbled under Governor Hope
Uzodimma.
The party labeled Sen. Hope Uzodimma's two years in
office as "years of desperate usurpation, slaughter, treasury theft,
malnutrition, and hopelessness."
The party described Senator Uzodimma's government as
an illegitimate regime without remorse in a statement issued on Monday by the
State Publicity Secretary, Mazi Emenike Mmeregini, adding that his
administration has abdicated the primary obligation of government as prescribed
by the Constitution, which is the security of lives and property.
The state Publicity Secretary accused the
administration of Uzodimma of politicizing an unfortunate security situation in
the state which has continued to gulp countless innocent lives, every day.
He said: “Today, bandits, terrorists, cannibals,
kidnappers and unknown gunmen are almost overrunning the State”.
The party leadership described it as curious that
Senator Uzodinma, until now, is yet to refute a very weighty allegation by the
Senator representing his own senatorial district Sen. Rochas Okorocha who
accused him of being a mastermind of a deadly hit squad that is backed by his
administration.
According to the statement, most areas in the Orlu
zone are currently under the firm grip of gunmen, a situation that has
thousands of our citizens internally displaced.
The party, however, expressed regret that Senator
Uzodinma suspended and summarily dismantled all the foundations and programmes
which the PDP Rebuild Imo administration painstakingly put in place in all the
sectors towards the rebuilding of Imo State.
He said: “our PDP led government commenced the
Treasury Single Account, Autonomy for local government system, Technical and
Skills Development Colleges, Automated Payment System for prompt payment of
salaries and pensions, agricultural revolution, infrastructural revolution,
civil service reform, the revival of ISOPADEC, Technology and ICT development,
qualitative free education etc.”
He said that other programmes of the Rebuild Imo
Administration were equally dumped by Uzodinma even when he embarked on a
borrowing spree, in most cases, nocturnally, which has placed Imo as the most
indebted state in the entire South East.
He described it as worrisome given that the regime
still cannot point to any landmark project it has done in two years to justify
the huge borrowings.
The party PDP pointed out that last year, the regime
accessed over N59 billion loans from foreign and domestic sources adding that
his year, 2022, Senator Uzodinma has perfected plans to borrow an additional
N61 billion.
He said: “when added, well over N103 billion which has
come to the local government areas from FAAC under Uzodinma, the N105 billion
which has come to the State also from FAAC, the N24 billion which the State has
internally generated and the N10 billion which represents the 13% oil
derivation, it is heartbreaking that there is nothing in Imo to show for the
monies”.
According to them within the years under review,
Senator Uzodinma has had neither a well-researched policy nor direction in the
various sectors of the state describing it as the calamity that has befallen
our State.
The PDP however noted with great pain that within two
years, Senator Uzodinma has made our state, Imo, the unemployment capital of
Nigeria.
He expressed great shock that the relevant rating
board, the Presidential Business Enabling Environment Council, has consistently
placed Imo at the lowest rung of the ladder in terms of ease of doing business
in Nigeria.
He said: “Worse still, within two years, our state
ranks highest in the South East in terms of infant and maternal mortality
rate.”
PDP is concerned that Senator Uzodinma has wilfully
denied employees and retirees their pay and pensions for the last two years,
adding that when workers conduct demonstrations, they are labeled as phony and
brutalized by government agents.
The Party also noticed that the local government
system has been entirely emasculated, defunded, and deprived of authority,
resulting in widespread unhappiness at the grassroots level.
While urging the people of Imo State to keep the
spirit alive, party officials underlined that the rule must end soon in order
for a PDP-led administration to take over for the people's sake.
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