Fix Owerri-Aba, Owerri-Onitsha, Owerri-PortHarcourt Highways or neglect our votes -Ohanaeze to Tinubu

The Apex Igbo Socio-cultural Organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo,
has declared the deplorable situations of the Owerri–Aba, Onitsha–Owerri
Expressway, and Owerri–Port Harcourt Highways a nationwide infrastructure
emergency, calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to order their quick
rehabilitation and reconstruction forward of 20227 or neglect votes from the
South-East zone

 

Ohanaeze mentioned these three strategic highways had been important
financial lifelines connecting the South-East to main business centres within the
South-South, stressing that their continued neglect has crippled business
actions, elevated transportation prices, endangered commuters, triggered
avoidable deaths, and uncovered highway customers to pointless safety dangers.

Warning that the All Progressives Congress, APC, led federal
authorities can not proceed to hunt the political help of Ndigbo, whereas
vital roads connecting their main business cities stay in deplorable
situations.

The Pan-Igbo organisation mentioned it particularly holds
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and Chairman of the Southeast Governors’
Forum answerable for failing to show the mandatory urgency in securing
presidential intervention on these vital highways.

It acknowledged that quite than prioritising the urgent
infrastructure wants of the Southeast, the Governor seems extra involved with
political calculations and private ambitions, which the physique described as
unacceptable.

Ohanaeze’s place was contained in a joint press assertion
issued on Friday by its Factional Deputy President- General, Mazi Okechukwu
Isiguzoro, and Professor Chibuikeya Achoakawa.

The assertion learn, “No quantity of political
mobilisation, marketing campaign guarantees or endorsements can change the sensible
advantages of fine roads and accountable governance. For the avoidance of doubt,
Ohanaeze needs to make it clear that Ndigbo don’t hate President Tinubu.

“We acknowledge his administration’s infrastructure
investments within the Southeast, together with the reported ₦248 billion federal highway
funding in Ebonyi State. However, the struggling of commuters alongside the
Owerri–Aba, Onitsha–Owerri, and Owerri–Port Harcourt highways can’t be
ignored.

“We due to this fact name on President Tinubu to urgently
direct the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, to prioritise these three
highways and be certain that significant rehabilitation begins earlier than the Christmas
festivities.

While noting that Governor Uzodinma of Imo State should wake
as much as his obligations, the group mentioned his place inside the APC
management and his function within the president’s political mobilisation should be used
to guard the pursuits of Ndigbo, not undermine them by administrative
complacency.

“Ndigbo deserve useful roads, financial
alternatives and accountable management. The Federal Government should act now.

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