Obiano’s 50-year development plan, a jamboree, showmanship – PDP


The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra state has blasted Governor Willie Obiano over his recently inaugurated 50-year development plan committee, describing it as a jamboree and showmanship.
Speaking through its state publicity secretary, Mr Nnamdi Nwangwu, PDP said although there was nothing wrong in planning, both short and long term, but the intention of the planner and antecedents of the planner was worrisome.


“The fact that the very bogus committee of 51 persons is headed by Prof Chukwuma Soludo, who is widely believed to be Obiano’s preferred aspirant to emerge as the candidate of his APGA in coming 2021 gubernatorial race in the state, completely gave the intention away,” it queried. 
Continuing, the party averred that “a deeper look at the antecedents of Obiano gives the whole plot away as another form of jamboree and showmanship aimed at hoodwinking the people further.  How can a party under a man like Governor Willie Obiano be trusted to be able to provide a long term plan? 


“If the same APGA government valued planning, how come they dismantled all the plans they inherited from preceding APGA government for eight years?  What happened to the UN Habitat plans for Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi painstakingly procured by HE Mr. Peter Obi from the UN Africa headquarters in Kenya, and already being implemented, handed over to Obiano to follow as part of continuing same APGA government? 
“What of the Anambra State Industrialisation handbook, painstakingly prepared by the preceding APGA government of which, very articulately, mapped out steps to industrialise the six industrial estates in the state? Can a party who dismantled a well-structured ANIDS handed over to them to finish MDGs with and kick-start SDGs will be truly serious with providing any meaningful plan to guide a people like ndi Anambra for 50 years?”


The publicity secretary, wondered what the governor would proffer as an explanation regarding the abandoned Umueri Airport project when he mounts campaign podium in 2021 to campaign for a successor in 2022. 

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