Stakeholders for Willie Obiano Second Tenure, at the
weekend, called for support of communities in Orumba South Local Government
Area of Anambra State to re-elect Governor Obiano come November 18.
They appealed to the electorate in the area not to allow
themselves to be deceived.
National Coordinator of the support group, Chief Ekene
Enefe, had told 15 communities that make up Orumba South Council Area including
Umunze, Eziagu, Owerezikana, Umuchukwu, Aku, Ogbunka, Ihite, Ezira, Isulo,
Nawfija, Ogboji and Umuomaku who gathered at the council Secretariat, that the
essence of the sensitisation was for them to beware of some money bags
politicians who would soon invade their communities to buy their votes and their
consciences that might lead to the election of a wrong candidate as Governor
during the election “thereby taking Anambra State back to square one.”
Chief Enefe said for Governor Obiano to have conquered
security challenges alone in Anambra State was enough reason for him to be
reelected, arguing that no meaningful development could take place anywhere
without adequate security of lives and property.
He said that it was better to allow a leader already tested
to continue than to welcome a new one with a new blue print that might spell
disaster for the state currently consolidating the gains of democracy. Chief
Enefe warned the people to beware of politicians with sweet tongues but who are
full of empty promises. He asked the communities members to raise delegates
that would be made to see the Governor one to one at the Government House, Awka
for further discussions on how to solve their problems.
Sponsor of the day’s event, Hon. Princess Nikky Ugochukwu,
representing Orumba South in Anambra State House of Assembly, said it had been
a wonderful experience in Orumba South under Governor Obiano’s dispensation.
She said she had been able to attract roads construction, provided employment
opportunities and touching the lives of the less privileged through the help of
Obiano’s administration. Princess Ugochukwu made a clarion call to her people
to give one hundred percent support to Obiano to continue.
Articulating their immediate demands from the Obiano
administration which they said would ginger them to give their unflinching
supports, representatives of the communities who spoke one after another mainly
talked about poor roads network in their various communities which did not
allow them to evacuate their farm produce.
Some of the communities’ spokesmen said the Governor
promised to do their roads during his governorship campaign last time but could
not fulfil it up till now. They demanded for electricity supply and pipe-borne
water at their rural communities as made available to some other communities.
Some of the communities like Umunze demanded deployment of
medical personnel to their existing general hospital, provision of water and
modern market even as they thanked the Governor for giving them electricity
while Ogbunka people appealed for their health centre to be upgraded to a
general hospital.
On herdsmen menace in the area, Prince Chukwudi Ugochukwu,
coordinator of the support group in Orumba South said as he was speaking, that
the Fulani herdsmen allowed their cows to be grazing freely at various farms in
the area destroying crops undisturbed. He said some women among the farmers
were suspected being raped but could not speak out because of the stigma to say
they were raped by the Fulani.
“We live at a boundary with Imo State by Arondizuogu. All
the farmlands there have been devastated by the herdsmen. Some of our women
have been raped at the farmlands but they refuse to talk so that they will not
be stigmatized. The entire Umunze are under threat,” he lamented.
He said their women had wanted to demonstrate but were being
restrained even as their youths had decided on reprisal “but we see it as
attracting a serious problem that might escalate.” Prince Ugochukwu said it was
only the State government that could handle the matter perfectly well and called
for the Governor’s urgent attention to the complaints.
Governor Obiano, represented by his Senior Special Adviser
on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), Hon Uchenna Okafor assured the
communities members that their demands and complaints would receive an express
attention of the Governor.
Traditional rulers present at the event HRH, Igwe P.N. Eze
(Abilikete II) of Umunze and his Nawfija counterpart, Igwe C.C. Okeke, among other personalities.
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