By Chidiebere Iwuoha
Owerri
The member representing Ikeduru state constituency in the Imo state House of Assembly, Hon. Samuel Anyanwu (Samdaddy), has debunked a story making the rounds that he was given money by Governor Rochas Okorocha to enable him to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that when he failed to do what the governor told him to do, the governor exposed him in one of his trips to the constituency.
He alleged that Anyanwu squandered the money given to him to execute some contract jobs, part of what he used in setting up his fast food centre situated at New Owerri Layout.
Samdaddy, who spoke through his Media Aide, Kelechi Eke, sounded made it clear that those stories were neither here nor there because they were clearly manufactured by his political detractors who were also gunning for the same Owerri Senatorial position.
He wondered why this story should surface now that the lawmaker was making frantic efforts to realise his senatorial dream.
He said: “I want to make it abundantly clear that we do not do road contracts. We have one of the best poultry farms in the state and what the lawmaker makes every month is enough and capable of giving him money with which to set up a fast food centre. Even myself, as a political aide, I am capable of setting up one. What does it take? It is just a little money.”
Eke advised politicians to focus on their ambition and what they would offer their people instead of manufacturing stories to rubbish opponents.
Anyanwu had in the past become the Transition Committee Chairman and Executive Chairman of Ikeduru LGA before he emerged as the lawmaker representing Ikeduru state constituency in the House “where he is now in his second term.”