Ozigbo slams Soludo for bringing Tinubu to Anambra, reels out reasons

An aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just-concluded Anambra governorship primaries, Valentine Ozigbo, has slammed Governor Chukwuma Soludo for inviting President Bola Tinubu to the state.

Ozigbo, in a statement issued barely hours after the president visited Anambra to commission some projects, said Soludo’s invite to Tinubu cannot mask his poor performance since assuming office as governor.

According to Ozigbo, the governor had remained docile for three years

without a single achievement in the state.

Noting that governance is not a “film trick”, Ozigbo said the president’s visit to the state is aimed at distracting the public from the growing socio-economic challenges bedevilling Anambra.

He also described the president’s visit to the state at the instance of the governor as a “glaring theatre of missed priorities, misplaced ambitions, and media optics masquerading as progress.”

“In over three years in office, Governor Soludo has delivered zero public housing, zero real investment inflow, and zero structural transformation of our economy.

“Instead of addressing the escalating cost of living, the housing crisis in Awka, the crumbling infrastructure across LGAs, or the deepening insecurity that has made daily life a gamble, the governor has chosen to showcase an amusement park.

“This facility should rightly have been left to private investors in a healthy economic climate,” Ozigbo said.

Ozigbo decried the level of hardship biting hard on the people of Anambra following the rising cost of living in the state.

He accused the government led by Governor Soludo of turning its back on the people, especially civil servants and businesspeople.

On the security situation in the state, Ozigbo said the continued killing, kidnapping and maiming of residents and people of Anambra is worrisome and should be a priority for any government.

“Instead of solving hunger, unemployment or fear, Soludo is building an amusement park,” he said.

“Dear Governor Soludo, let me say this, directly and without apology: Bringing the President to commission a handful of overhyped projects does not mask your failure.

“It doesn’t put food on the table. It doesn’t create jobs. And it certainly doesn’t fool Ndi Anambrant,” he added.