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Imo Has Crumble Under Governor Uzodimma ― PDP



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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