No Cracks, Factions In Imo PDP

The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday stated there isn’t a faction inside its fold, insisting that Hon Austin Nwachukwu stays the chairman.

The state publicity secretary, Lancelot Obiaku, stated this throughout a press convention alongside different officers on the get together secretariat in Owerri, the state capital.

That is whilst they careworn that the chief of the PDP within the state was the nationwide secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, saying the place has been affirmed by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), and throughout the get together’s stakeholders assembly in Abuja.

The state secretary, Hon Jerry Oguoke, stated the get together was able to play its function as lead opposition get together and maintain the federal government accountable to the individuals.

Obiaku dispelled insinuations that there was one other faction saying there was none and that there was no emptiness within the management constructions.

“We want to vehemently emphasize that there have been no parallel congresses at any degree, and so far, these congresses stay unchallenged in any court docket of competent jurisdiction.

“The Imo State Chapter of the PDP is indisputably led by Hon. Austin Nwachukwu because the State Chairman, and there is just one State Working Committee (SWC) of the get together. There aren’t any factions in Imo State PDP”.

Additional, the get together stated the All Progressive Congress authorities led by Governor Hope Uzodimma was but to implement the cost of the minimal wage as senior civil servants had been but to obtain wage improve.

Obiaku stated “as we speak, Imo just isn’t really paying the N70,000 minimal wage. As a celebration, now we have in current instances held the knowledgeable place that the Imo State Authorities had but to implement the previous N30,000 minimal wage, provided that degree 10 and 12 staff in numerous ministries barely earn round N50,000 month-to-month. At present, what now we have is a scenario the place a senior employee earns virtually the identical as a junior employee.

“If a degree 5 employee earns N71,000 and a degree 12 employee earns N73,000, will you name that cost of minimal wage? The place did the tens of hundreds that ought to accrue to the extent 12 employee go? Have you learnt the irony? Employees who’re at degree 5 and under don’t represent as much as 10 % of the workforce.”

“The federal government payrolled staff from Authorities Home. The labour union and numerous ministries had no enter. Nobody has seen the wage desk with which the federal government is paying salaries. It’s a fraudulent scheme”.

The get together stated the Uzodimma administration had failed, because the previous 5 years had been characterised by terror, bloodshed, corruption, and waste.

“The final 5 years of the current regime have been marred by terror, bloodshed, corruption, and waste. The failure to safe the lives and property of Imo individuals is already nicely documented”, he stated.

Additional, he lamented that beneath Uzodimma, the training sector had collapsed whereas highway building awards had been introduced and funds embezzled.

The get together stated “Sadly, within the twenty first century beneath a world economic system pushed by science and expertise, the few Imo public colleges nonetheless standing can not boast of libraries, laboratories, and pc labs. To crown all of it, final yr, Imo pupils and college students gained admission into junior and senior secondary colleges with out essential examinations, together with the widespread entrance, the First School Leaving Certificates Examination and the Junior West Africa Examination Certificates (WAEC), as a result of the State Authorities did not conduct them. This represents a complete collapse of the training sector”.

Additional, the get together stated the highway building of World bank-Umuguma and Nekede-Ihiagwa roads not too long ago awarded, the identical roads had been awarded and even commissioned previously.

“On highway infrastructure, we word with grief the truth that the state authorities has prioritised enjoying to the gallery and fraudulently embezzling public funds. For instance, the State Authorities introduced simply yesterday that it has awarded the World {Bank} – Umuguma and the Nekede-Iheanwa roads in Owerri for building. These are roads awarded in 2020 by the identical authorities for tens of billions with out something tangible occurring on the roads. That is the peak of theft and sleaze. At present, Imo rural roads are the worst in Southern Nigeria”.

The PDP referred to as on Uzodimma to get up to his tasks or resign saying “Uzodimma should get up or resign, having been a catastrophe and failed woefully as Governor and chief of the State. As the primary opposition get together within the State, our pledge to Imo individuals is that we’ll not relent in delivering a sturdy opposition”.