PDP Is Coming Back To Make Imo Safe Again - Samdaddy

The National Secretary of People's Democratic Party (PDP) and governorship candidate of the party in Imo State, Senator Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy), has assured Imo people of making

Imo safe again if he is elected governor.

Anyanwu who gave the assurance on Saturday while having audience with newsmen in Owerri, frowned  that insecurity has torn the state apart with residents living in apprehension.

Anyanwu said the security challenge has become everyone's nightmare, an ugly experience he said has left virtually everyone in the state in deep fear, agony and poverty, harping that there is need for residents to get it right this time in the forthcoming governorship election by, stating that if nothing is done to drastically change the narratives the state would a total disaster.

According to him,"we want to let the whole world know that PDP is coming back to make Imo safe again, so that our brothers and sisters who because of the insecurity have decided not to come back to the state from diaspora will have the confidence to come back home again"

He added that "no one needs to be told that the present administration led by Hope Uzodimma has failed woefully, because any government that cannot protect the lives of its citizens is a failed government, which according to the Constitution of Nigeria, is the first responsibility of a Chief Security Officer of a State. In Orlu, we have 12 Local Government Areas, and 5 out of it, is under siege. Imo used to be the hospitality base of the South East where you see people troop and out of the state.

"People cannot do traditional marriages in the villages anymore. A Commissioner in this administration recently did his daughter's traditional marrage here in town inside the Commissioners' Quarters, when the joy of traditional marriage is when you do it in the village and the villagers come around to rejoice with you.

"One of the remote causes of this insecurity in the state is because young men are jobless. There is no factory, no industry. If we can fix this, people will be gainfully employed, then insecurity will reduce to the bearest minimum in the state.

"The accusation that the carnage in Imo is politically motivated is just a cover up by the government on its weakness to handle the issue because a very responsible government must look at the remote cause of an issue and not accuse people wrongly.

"Every month the over N91million that goes into each Local Government Area is taken away. Nothing is happening there in the LGAs, as per development, and engaging people to work. As a former LGA Chairman, I fixed the roads, renovated schools, and employed many people.

"These anomalies will be corrected by January when we are sworn in to man the affairs of the state; we will within six months go through the constitution to turn the local government system to what it used to be and from it, give back food to the families that are hungry because food has been taken away from their mouth, he emphasized.