Former governor of Anambra State, Chris Ngige, has said that
all the roads constructed by his successors in Anambra have been washed away
because they were poorly done by inefficient contractors.
The current Minister of Labour and Employment and 2023
presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress spoke on
Thursday as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme.
According to Ngige, all the roads constructed in Anambra by
Peter Obi and Willie Obiano were of inferior quality except the ones he (Ngige)
constructed as governor from 2003 to 2006.
While Obi was Anambra governor between 2007 and 2014, Obiano
was governor from 2014 until last month when he handed over to Chukwuma Soludo.
Speaking on Thursday night about his short-lived time as
Anambra governor before he was sacked by a court order, Ngige said, “The most
important thing was that I was a governor and I touched the lives of the
people. It is not how long but how effective, what did the people benefit from
me? When you get to that stage, you will know. All the notable roads there (in
Anambra), are the roads constructed by Ngige between 2003 and 2006.”
Asked about the ones constructed by Obi, he said, “They are
all washed off; those ones are gone. They didn’t last more than five years,
they are gone.”
Asked also about the roads constructed by Obiano, the
minister said, “Those ones are also gone.”
Ngige said it was only the roads he constructed that are
still standing “because I used reputable contractors and I inspected the jobs
myself with the commissioner for works”.
Both Ngige (of APC) and Obi (of the Peoples Democratic
Party) are focal presidential aspirants from the South-East geopolitical zone.
With the clamour for Southern Presidency after the regime of
the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, in May 2023, the apex
Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, as well as other
stakeholders in the zone have demanded that the Presidency be zoned to the
South-East.
The zone has consistently alleged injustice, noting that
other zones in the Southern region have had a piece of Aso Rock’s pie since
Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999 but the two main parties – APC and the
PDP have ruled our zoning as they plan to hold their presidential primaries in
May.
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