By Tunji Adedeji The Peoples Democratic Party in Imo State on Friday alleged that more than half of Imo territory is presently under...
By Tunji Adedeji
The Peoples Democratic Party in Imo State on Friday alleged
that more than half of Imo territory is presently under the occupation of
bandits, terrorists, kidnappers and other non-state actors who levy death upon
Imo people and make life a misery.
PDP in a statement issued by its publicity secretary in the
state, Collins Opurozor, said Uzodimma’s bad governance made insecurity persist
in the state.
The opposition party said farmers have abandoned their
farmlands and the logical outcome has been an unprecedented rise in poverty and
starvation, including crime. Three years ago, Imo was the most peaceful state
in Nigeria. Our State is now a killing field!
While highlighting the scorecard of Gov. Uzodinma, the PDP
said it is shameful that while Imo people are slaughtered daily by terrorists,
the only thing Senator Uzodinma thinks of is how to politicize the festering
insecurity.
PDP said, “Imo has become a killing field within 3yrs under
Uzodinma’s failed APC regime. We seized the platform to alert the Nigerian and
International community of Uzodinma’s plans to unleash Ebubeagu Militia, deploy
maximum violence to rig 2023 elections In Imo State”
PDP further said in the last thirty-six months, the regime
of Senator Uzodinma has received from the Federation Accounts Allocation
Committee (FAAC) a total of N180.6 billion meant for the Local Governments in
the State. Today, nothing on the ground shows that even a Kobo has gotten to
the LGAs.
According to PDP,” Senator Hope Uzodinma must, without any
further delay, tell Imo people where he kept the N180.6 billion belonging to
the Local Governments
“Uzodinma unrepentantly seeks to frame and destroy his
perceived political foes with it. This Governor is a big threat to society and
he is evidently unfit to continue in office!
“As the 2023 elections draw closer, the failed regime of
Senator Uzodinma is already perfecting a wicked plot to deploy violence in
order to manipulate electoral outcomes and extend its illegitimate hold onto
power. Our Party has intercepted credible intelligence about the planned role
which the Uzodinma-backed Ebubeagu Militia would play in this process of
derailing democracy in the State.
“On Election Day, what may be witnessed is a scenario where
accreditations would be allowed to take place with BVAS, and from that point,
Ebubeagu Militia would take over the process to complete the actual voting and
transmission. The massively-rigged February 2022 State Constituency By-election
in Ngor Okpala provided the ground for the APC regime in Imo to test this crime
against democracy.
“Imo PDP, therefore, demands the immediate disbandment of
Ebubeagu Militia. The Inspector General of Police must rise to the occasion.
Since Ebubeagu began its operations in Imo State, insecurity, killings,
abductions and arson have only risen astronomically. There is no justification
for the Militia to continue to exist!
“Imo people should realize that if this bestial regime in
the State is allowed to set everywhere on fire and make all the parts of Imo
uninhabitable, we all would become refugees in foreign lands.
” Therefore, everyone in the State must now come out, join
hands and participate in the electoral process, with the clear and patriotic objective
of permanently sending this unelected regime packing. This is what we owe
ourselves for the sake of our collective survival. This is what we owe our
generations yet unborn. The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of
tyranny”
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