A Peoples Democratic Party Chieftain, Chief Chinedu Eya, has described as “poor and embarrassing” the donation of a bus to the re-election campaign team of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi by Senator Chuka Utazi, representing Enugu North Senatorial zone.
The bus was donated recently during the party’s zonal meeting.
Eya who wondered how a Senator who is roundly criticized for lack of a single project across Enugu North Senatorial zone could think donating a “rickety vehicle” to the governor’s re-election bid will save him from been beating-silly during the party’s primary elections coming soon.
In a statement by his media aide, Gwiyi Solomon, the PDP topshot maintained that as a state-wide initiator of “No Vacancy in the Lion Building, Gburugburu till 2023” he would support every step aimed at returning the governor in 2019.
The party chieftain said he was taken aback on why a Senator who is yet to account for over a billion naira accruing to the zone as both constituency projects and running cost will suddenly appear at the party’s zonal meeting with a “rickety car to curry favour from the governor.”
“This is a Senator who has been roundly accused by youths of not citing a single project in the zone. Does he think buying a rickety vehicle will save him from been beaten silly during our primary election? He must know he cannot curry favour from the Governor with one rickety car,” the statement quoted Eya as saying.
He challenged the Senator to stop chasing after vain glory and name his projects across the zone as demanded by the concerned youths as that would be the yardstick upon which next candidate of the Party would be determined.
He bemoaned what he described as an open diatribe against the personage of the governor by the Senator a few weeks ago in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area, where he openly and flagrantly begged governor Ugwuanyi to back his candidature in 2019, so that he (Utazi) would pay him (Governor Ugwuanyi) back by becoming his campaign manager as a Senatorial aspirant in 2023.
The PDP chieftain upheld that if Utazi has been working for his zone within the period he has been parading himself as senator, he wouldn’t have had any reason to beg the Governor to assist him ascend to power again in 2019 as his projects would have spoken for and possibly returned him senator in 2019 unchallenged.