An Igbo socio-cultural orgainzation, Oha’ndigbo Youthd, has given a passmark to Governor Hope Uzodinma for raising the bar of governance in Imo State.
The group particularly attested that the governor’s monumental giant strides in the state’s economy and critical infrastructure superceded that of thr past successive and dictatorial governments that foisted draconian policies on imo people without laying tangible infrastructure to enhance the living standard of the citizens.
Chief Nduka Anyanwu, the Convener of Oha’ndigbo Youths, stated this during an interview with a cross section of journalists in Owerri, shortly after he led a delegation of the group to an assessment tour of projects embarked and completed by the Government of the All Progressives Congress in imo.
The southeast group noted that Uzodinma has proven to be a servant leader through his administration’s implementation of development-oriented policies and programmes, which had in positive turn, engendered building of impactful infrastructural projects and provision of social amenities in every doorsteps of imo people in the last four years.
Oha’ndigbo youths affirmed also that most of the developmental projects embarked upon by the current state government are roundedly completed, revealing Uzodinma had other ongoing projects which are now seventy percent in completion, and also, to be commissioned when reelected by imo electorates for another term in office as governor in the forthcoming November 11gubernatorial election in the state.
On security, the pan-igbo youth organization also noted that the state government has recorded impressive efforts in tackling the rearing insecurities being heard of and facing some localities in imo and applauded the government for effective and result-oriented security architecture put in place in every stratas of the state, which according to him, had positively degraded armed-robbers, bandits and kidnappers and quelled their menaces in the society.
According to Oha’ndigbo youths, “honestly, and I stand to be quoted anywhere, Governor Uzodinma’s recent approval under Public, Private Partnership funding agreements saw the immediate past vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osibanjo, fly down imo and performed official flag-off ceremony of the dredging project for Oguta lake seaport in imo. And i have this implicit confidence in him in n actualizing this gigantic projects to ensure ease transportation of goods or products within coaster areas in southern Nigeria and beyond.”
On education and heath sectors, he said, “We visited all educational institutions situated in this state, it was a fruitful engagement with teachers, and they found time to pour econmiums on the state government for rasing the standard in erection of school blocks, facilitation of federal government’s approval for establishment of faculties in our universities, polytechnic and colleges of education in imo.”
The ethnic nationality group equally noted the uncommon maturity being demonstrated by Uzodinma’s administration in the last four years, and commended the Imo helmsman for the existed political stability in the state, and his political tolerance that provided the level playing grounds among all political parties and opposition chieftains to vent their opinions on critical government policies and programmes.
It further used the fora to advise imo electorates to queue behind Senator Hope Uzodinma and ensure he was reelected come November 11, 2023, to enable him consolidate monumental democratic gains achieved by his administration in this current tenure in office as state governor.
The Oha’ndigbo youths also urged the ignore cheap propaganda and blackmail orchestrated by those who begrudged the governor over his refusal throw open the state treasury to be able to feed fat and commit the state to debtedness and unjustly enrich themselves in detriment of the imo populace.