Re: “Infrastructure Decay In Anambra State”

EMEKA OZUMBA

 The outlandish claim and post titled, “Infrastructure Decay in Anambra State “by one Mezie Akubundu reeks of hasty conclusions borne of illicit assumption.  Obviously, it was made to find a perch for his wannabe Governor and so called “Mr Project,” whose claim to prominence is not on his legislative triumphs but on federal sponsored projects embedded in MDGs and Constituency project subhead. 

  In pursuit of his inalienable right to aspire, the fledgling “Mr Project is hastily searching for an anchor for his gubernatorial aspiration and has engaged a revisionist mob of the internet to demarket the incumbent Governor, Wille Obiano and the people’s party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) with infantile claim of “infrastructural decay….” All in effort to start an argument. Wonders shall never end. 

 To worsen matters, he is seeking justification for the credentials of Obiano’s predecessor who up till now is at sea on the actual amount spent or saved during an eight-year era of boom, just because he jumped ship to another party to further his well-known ambition.  

Again, the writer is brazenly appropriating APGA legacy to burnish a moribund political party desperate to reinvent itself. Unfortunately, even the bid to appropriate APGA legacy cannot grant the confederacy of renegades’ peace or the much-desired escape from their misdeeds or the deficits of their years of locust in Anambra.   

Pray, why would anyone trying to succeed Obiano cast a blind eye to the massive transformation on the Anambra landscape since 2014 till date?  

A cursory look at Awka Capital territory which has moved from a glorified village to a capital city immediately puts a lie to his false claims. More so, how can we lose sight of Obiano’s approach, which defined governance and prioritized roads built to empower, that open up the agrarian areas without abandoning key city and intra-community roads.  

For the records, what do we call the Nengo River Bridge, the Iyiora Bridge, the Umueje Bridge and Kisa River Bridge in Umunya, the SARS Awkuzu-Abube Nnado Bridge, Ndiukwuenu-Awa-Ufuma bridges and the Ezira-Umuomaku-Enugu Umuonyia bridge. Not forgetting the 280- meter- bridge across the Omambala River to the oilfields of Anambra State.  

 For the sanity of naysayers, I won’t delve into legacy projects nearing completion. Again, don’t ask me about giant strides in agriculture because today the once vilified Anambra rice is taken for granted. 

 Granted that the former Governor has instructed them to target Obiano in order to make their campaign relevant, one expects well-thought-out and structured argument rather than unsubstantiated claims just to be seen as different. My candid advice to this pen pusher is to change strategy since this project thing cannot fly against Obiano.  

 I rest my case for now as I borrow the expressions of American Comedian, Groucho Marx, which aptly captures my mood at your brazen false claims about Anambra,”Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” After all, facts are sacred and opinion, free