A pressure group, The Mazi Organisation (TMO), has called on President Bola Tinubu to shelve his planned visit to lmo State on Tuesday, September 30.
The group claimed that Governor Hope Uzodimma had perfected the fine art of building federal roads so that Abuja will refund him, while leaving Imo’s state and local roads looking like war trenches.
In a statement issued on Monday by Cajetan Duke, the group’s Spokesperson, he stated that we “celebrate the much-talked-about Assumpta Flyover, a quarter-kilometer triumph that took six years to build.”
According to him, “while Rivers and Ebonyi states were mass-producing them like pure water, in Uzodimma’s Imo, one flyover is an epochal achievement.
“Governor Uzodimma’s leadership style is equally commendable: an absentee landlord ruling by proxy.
“Six years in power, and not once has he visited all 27 LGAs. Perhaps he fears that venturing into the villages would expose him to the potholes, insecurity, and despair that his government pretends do not exist.
“After all, red carpets are smoother than rural roads. Local government autonomy? Supreme Court rulings? Grassroots democracy? All irrelevant in Uzodimma’s kingdom.
“One wonders: where has the torrent of federal allocations gone, since not a single tangible project has sprung up in our LGAs? But of course, in this government, accountability is a foreign language.”
The group said should the President visit the state, “we urge you: enjoy the ceremonies, cut the ribbons, but take a detour afterwards. Drive yourself down Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Drive, Owerri-Port Harcourt Road, or Hospital Road.
“You’ll quickly see that beneath the governor’s showpiece projects lies the real Imo: a state abandoned to craters, insecurity, and suffering.”
“So today, we wholeheartedly congratulate Governor Uzodimma-for proving that in Imo, development is not about serving the people, but about serving the refund pipeline. He is less a governor, more a contractor to the Federal Government. May Abuja keep paying, since Imo surely isn’t gaining.
“Ignore the painted walls and staged parades. Listen instead to the heartbeat of the people, muffled under dust, mud, and neglect,” the group told Tinubu.
