From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri
The leadership of the Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the crisis rocking the government of Rochas Okorocha as self-inflicted as the administration is not known for due process but operates as if it is a military government, which is not accountable to anybody.
Addressing journalists at the state party secretariat in Owerri, the Imo State capital, yesterday, Chief Eze Duru Ihuoma (SAN), state chairman said the PDP as a party or the presidency as an institution had no hands in the crisis rocking the Okorocha government as the current political face-off between the deputy governor, the state Assembly was self-inflicted.
“The crisis rocking the state government is self-inflicted and anybody that followed what is happening will know that there will be crisis sooner or later. It is now known that a whopping sum of N1.3 billion could be signed across the counter by the state governor to pay a foreigner for doing nothing in a state ravaged by hunger and unemployment while indigenous contractors are left to die without payment.”
He maintained that something was wrong with a system where the governor approved the payment of a whole contract sum without the certificate of performance, adding that more worrisome was the speed with which the government embarked on new projects without designs and budgetary allocations.
“The government has commenced 1,000 road projects without designs and ask contractors to execute it and majority of those projects were not captured in the state budgets and today they have not been paid. Today, everyone has seen what we are talking about the government which refused to pay indigenous contractors but paid a Lebanese over a billion naira.”
The party added that the policies of the Okorocha government was anti-people because money spent on the projects had not impacted positively on the citizens’ lives, noting that “our fears about the government’s free education has been justified today and we are sure that there are more monies being paid to foreigners with no proof of work done.”
“This administration is sick because things are terribly wrong with the state and the state governor has explanations to do on the upfront payment of over N1.3 billion. There may be more such payments.”
Okorocha paid more money to foreign contractors in raw cash than indigenous contractors that was allowed to hang their faiths in the hands of financial institutions in the state. He also made them to be indebted at the hands of these financial bodies. Tell me what a Labanese co can offer to Nigerians other than turbulence that was imbibed in their life since creation. The only good thing now to happen in the state is to impeach this arrogant governor, we are tired of his undemocractic approach to governance in the state.
A disabled man, trying to induce disability again in governance, we can not let it be. His physically challenged nature should be shared only to himself, I can now see reason why OBJ ascribed him as a failure.
The agitation by PDP in Imo state is out of envy. Okorocha’s government has refused to offer contracts to their so called PDP contractors in the state whose stock in trade is to collect mobilisation fee and run to Abuja. The present government in Imo state does not need all these unnecessary distractions. Well meaning imolites must exercise patience and see how the Okorocha vision will transform the state at the end of his tenure.
PDP,PDP,PDP. WHAT A SHAME, EVEN MY AGED FATHER IN THE VILLAGE WILL NOT VOTE FOR PDOP COME 2015. A PARTY WHERE LOOTERS HIDE.
Okorocha’s disability mustn’t be used against him. However, we should all agree that he is insane. And so, he needs deliverance. He has done so much evil in the state. He should be impeached. His political manipulations and anti-people policies have caused both the youths as well as aged persioners, the civil servants as well as the artisans, etc so much sufferings. If the state Assembly were not his rubber stamp, he deserved to have been impeached in less than 100 days in the office.
Okorocha’s disability mustn’t be used against him. However, we should all agree that he is insane and has no positive direction. And so, he needs deliverance. He has done so much evil in the state he claims to rescue. Infact, he is a deceiver. He should be impeached. His political manipulations and anti-people’s policies have rendered both the youths as well as aged persioners, the civil servants as well as the artisans, etc suffer so much that I wonder if this was the man we all massively voted into power and fault to defend. If the state assembly were not his rubber stamp, he deserved to have been impeached in less than 100 days in the office.
My friend everything about him must be used, one doesn,t fancy any situation around him in terms of deadly conflicts like this. Every arsenal must be deployed until the drama becomes history. This arrogant human has bitten the finger that fed him.