A prominent chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Comrade Adolphus Ude, has sharply criticized Anambra State Governor Professor Charles Soludo for what he described as excessive praise of President Bola Tinubu’s approval of designs for two major road projects in the South-East.
Governor Soludo had on Thursday commended President Tinubu for approving the design and procurement of the 108km Otuocha-Anam-Abaji Road (linking Anambra to Kogi) and the 150km Oba-Nnewi-Uga-Ihube (Okigwe Junction) Road, which connects parts of Anambra and Imo states to the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.
Soludo described the move as part of Tinubu’s deliberate efforts to rebuild the South-East.Ude, who leads the ADC Like-Minds support group and serves as Secretary of the Enugu ADC Caretaker Committee, dismissed Soludo’s position as “sycophantic.”
He challenged the governor to name any actual road projects executed by the Tinubu administration in the South-East that justify such praise, noting that only designs and procurement approvals not full contract awards have been announced.
The ADC leader accused Soludo and other South-East governors of diminishing the dignity of Ndigbo through what he called servile flattery toward the President in a bid to gain favour.
He argued that this behaviour portrays the Igbo people as “bootlickers” before other Nigerians.
“Tinubu has not executed any new road project or significant reconstruction work on any existing highway in the South-East,” Ude stated.
He pointed out that the region was excluded from Tinubu’s flagship infrastructure initiatives, including the multi-trillion naira Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road and the Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway.
Ude further contrasted heavy federal investments in Lagos with limited attention to the South-East, citing projects worth over N3 trillion in Lagos and a £746 million ($1 billion) loan for port redevelopment, while questioning what the South-East has received in comparable terms.
He also criticized the concession of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu to a private firm, while the federal government opted to directly fund a major rebuild of Lagos’s Murtala Muhammed Airport.
Ude urged Soludo and other South-East governors to focus on delivering tangible dividends of democracy to their people rather than “praise-singing,” and expressed confidence that an ADC-led government in 2027 would ensure equitable distribution of federal projects and appointments across the country.
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