A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Comrade Adolphus Ude, has lambasted Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, for hyping the proposed road projects of the President Bola Tinubu administration in the South-East.
Soludo had on Thursday thanked Tinubu for approving the design and procurement of two major South-East roads. The roads are the 108km Otuocha-Anam-Abaji (Kogi) Road and the 150km Oba-Nnewi-Uga-Ihube (Okigwe Junction) Road, which connect Anambra and Imo states to the Enugu-Port Harcourt Road from Abia State.
The Anambra governor, in his statement titled, ‘History Will Be Kind to You,’ described the approval of the design and procurement of the two roads as part of Tinubu’s deliberate effort to rebuild the South-East.
However, Ude, leader of the ADC Like-Minds, a support group within the ADC, challenged Soludo to list the road projects executed by Tinubu in the South-East that would make history kind to the President.
Ude, who is also the Secretary of the Enugu ADC Caretaker Committee, condemned what he described as the “sycophantic disposition” of Governor Soludo and other South-East governors towards the President, lamenting that their behaviour belittles Ndigbo before other Nigerians.
He blasted Soludo for lavishing praise on the President for the mere approval of the design and procurement of the two South-East roads, rather than the actual award of contracts for the projects. According to him, Soludo has reduced the “exalted position of Governor of Anambra State” to that of a presidential spokesman who announces contracts and other approvals by his principal.
