BY: EMMANUEL CHUKWUMA, ENUGU.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State chapter has passed a vote of no confidence on Governor Hope Uzodimma’s led administration, dismissing same as a monumental failure.
This was made known by the Publicity Secretary of PDP, Hon. Lancelot Obiaku, while addressing newsmen in Owerri, the capital of Imo State.
He stressed that the governor has failed to make a significant impact in critical sectors.
The party claimed that the education sector in the state has gone into comatose, while the governor, according to the party, is playing to the gallery in issues of road infrastructure and erosion control.
The publicity secretary highlighted that the party is ready to ensure that Imo is returned to the path of good governance come 2027.
The party said, “As you all know, on July 27, 2024, by the timetable approved by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, the Imo State Chapter of the PDP held its ward congress. This was followed by the LGA congress on August 10, 2024, and subsequently the state congress on August 31, 2024, which produced the State Working Committee (SWC) and the State Executive Committee (SEC).
“We wish to vehemently emphasize that there were no parallel congresses at any level, and to date, these congresses remain unchallenged in any court of competent jurisdiction. Within the internal organs of the party, the congresses are also not subject to any form of scrutiny or dispute, having followed the laid-down rules and procedures enshrined in the party’s constitution for electing officers.
“However, to the surprise of Imo people, on April 28, 2025, publications appeared on social media alluding to the creation of a new Interim Executive of the party in the state and an announcement of an acting state chairman.
“The Imo State Chapter of the PDP is indisputably led by Hon. Austin Nwachukwu as the State Chairman, and there is only one State Working Committee (SWC) of the party. There are no factions in Imo State PDP. Furthermore, we want to emphasize that the leader of the party in the State is Senator Samuel Anyanwu,
“Everyone in the state knows that the Hope Uzodimma administration is a monumental failure. The failure to secure the lives and property of Imo people is already well documented.
“However, what is more striking is how the present regime has ensured that every critical sector of the state’s economy went into a coma. Let’s begin with the education sector. Just yesterday, the world celebrated Children’s Day, and Imo marked the day with the reality of public schools being on the path of extinction starring it in the face.
“Not only has the state government left most of the schools without qualified teachers, having failed to carry out teacher recruitment in the last five years, students have been forced to learn on bare floors, under mango trees, given the dilapidation of the public schools’ infrastructure.
“Sadly, in the 21st century under a world economy driven by science and technology, the few Imo public schools still standing cannot boast of libraries, laboratories, and computer labs. To crown it all, last year, Imo pupils and students gained admission into junior and senior secondary schools without crucial examinations, including the common entrance, the First School Leaving Certificate Examination and the Junior West Africa Examination Certificate (WAEC), because the sate government failed to conduct them. This represents a total collapse of the education sector.
“On road infrastructure, we note with grief the fact that the state government has prioritised playing to the gallery. For example, the state government announced just yesterday that it has awarded the World Bank – Umuguma and the Nekede-Ihiagwa roads in Owerri for construction. These are roads awarded in 2020 by the same government for tens of billions without anything tangible happening on the roads.
“Today, Imo rural roads are the worst in Southern Nigeria. Despite receiving N6.1 billion of ecological funds in the last five years, Imo is littered with gully erosion sites. There is one at Urualla in Ideato North LGA, another at Nkwo Mbaa Ugiri in Isiala Mbano LGA, another at Akwakuma-Hardel junction road in Owerri North LGA.
“With the state receiving an average of N6.5 billion monthly as LGA allocations between January and September 2024, and N8 billion monthly from September 2024 to May 2025, the state has received N162 billion in LGA allocations in the last 16 months alone. When you add that to over N350 billion in previous months, it amounts to over N500 billion with nothing to show for it — not in infrastructure, commerce and industry, education, payment of minimum wage, pensions, and gratuities”.
