- Blame your party first for failing Nigerians – PDP
An ex-officio member of the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Nduka Anyanwu, has blamed the alleged lacklustre performance of the administration of Governor Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State on the absence of a credible opposition.
Anyanwu said that the absence of a virile opposition in the state had given all the room to Governor Ikpeazu and his administration to fall into a “deep political slumber.”
The APC chieftain said this in an exclusive interview with our correspondent, after hosting a meeting of members of the Abia Central Senatorial District of the party in his Ossa Ibeku home in Umuahia North Local Government Area of the state.
We have yet to feel the impact of his administration
He alleged that since the governor’s election over two years ago, he had abandoned his duties and had been busy junketing from one country to another under the guise of looking for foreign investors.
“You can see it all over the state that the governor is not doing anything. In fact, we have yet to feel the impact of his administration, either in infrastructural development or provision of any form of social service,” he said.
Anyanwu said that the people must speak out now on the change they desired or risk being ruled by another non-performer that would be foisted on them again in the next two years against their wishes and desire for change.
“I am calling on the people to begin now to look towards the APC as alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor. The APC has all it takes to move the state forward,” he said.
The APC chieftain also gave the Federal Government a pass mark in its anti-corruption campaign and infrastructural development efforts in view of the limited resources available to it due to global fall in oil price, a major revenue earner.
“You see, the PDP messed up the economy of this country. During the 16 years it was in power, looting of treasury at all levels of government was the order of the day. But thank God we have put a stop to it,” Anyanwu said.
Similarly, another chieftain of the party, Alozie Mac Solomon, challenged the governor to show the people what he had been doing with the revenue that had accrued to the state since he came into office.
Solomon, who is a non-executive director and member representing the South East on the board of the Rural Electrification Board, expressed confidence that the APC would take over the state in the 2019 general election.
The Chairman of the APC in the district, Chief Sunday Ogbonna, restated the support of the members for President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption agenda, saying that his efforts had restored sanity to the society.
But while responding to Anyanwu’s claims, the state Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Don Ubani, said that the APC, as far as the ruling party was concerned, did not exist in the state let alone posing any danger to Ikpeazu in 2019.
He said that the APC should blame itself for its failure to make meaningful impact at the Federal level, adding that Nigerians have learnt their lessons about what the party stood for the hard way and would not make the mistake of returning it to power in 2019
