The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Imo State chapter has challenged the state governor, Hope Uzodimma, on the spate of insecurity and infrastructure decay ravaging the state.
This is even as the party urged him to establish adequate mechanisms to arrest these ugly situations and stop playing to the gallery.
The party submitted that the governor’s address represents the same old empty rhetoric, highlighting that Uzodimma falsely claimed his administration had subdued the issue of insecurity.
This was made known through a statement made available to newsmen by the publicity secretary of PDP, Hon. Lancelot Obiaku.
The party highlighted that the governor’s address represents dull, uninspiring moment and not different from the one he delivered a year and a half ago.
The party explained that Uzodimma essentially repeated the same script with an edited version containing a new set of lies and make-believe.
The publicity secretary revealed that the governor once more spent considerable time blaming an unnamed opposition for the insecurity that has plagued the state since his alleged controversial rise to power in 2020.
” In reality, many areas, including Okigwe, Onuimo, Ihitte-Uboma, Owerri West, Oguta, Ngor-Okpala, Orsu, and Orlu LGAs, remain under siege from hoodlums, kidnappers, terrorists, and organ harvesters,” he said.
The PDP revealed that the governor conveniently forgot the tragic incident that occurred on May 6, 2025, when 26 passengers were kidnapped on the Owerri-Aba road, and one of them was reportedly shot dead on the spot by suspected Fulani terrorists. The whereabouts of the remaining 25 are still unknown.
“Furthermore, on May 8, in what has become a routine attack in the LGA, unknown gunmen targeted Umuna in the Okigwe LGA, burning over 20 trucks, destroying shops, and reportedly taking more than 20 innocent lives, leaving many families in mourning.
“The party also recalled the numerous lives lost in the Agwa community in Oguta, where over 100 people have fallen victim to attacks by suspected Fulani terrorists. Amakohia-Ubi in Owerri West LGA has been experiencing constant lethal attacks from similar sources lately, in that community, many cases of kidnapping by the same sect have been recorded.
“This is the situation in some parts of Avu, Obinze and Okuku, and it is clear that the cases of kidnapping, ritual killings and terrorist attacks on communities are spreading like wildfire across Imo State with many communities now captured by the terrorists,” he said.
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