Valentine Obienyem, the Media Adviser to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 polls in Nigeria, Peter Obi, has described Chief Jude Umunnakwe as a chronic liar.
This was in reaction to a statement by a group Umunnakwe leads that none of the roads Obi built was usable again.
The group: Soludo Solution Movement, Obienyem said, lied.
In a statement on Thursday, the media aide recalled that it was almost 10 years since Obi left government, wondering what informed Umunnakwe’s failure to refer to those roads built even recently in his assessment, while insisting that most of the roads Obi built are still intact, except those that the people that came after him failed to maintain as is done in other parts of the world.
Obienyem said that being aware that maintenance was critical part of road culture, the group should investigate what happened to the Anambra State Road Maintenance Agency Obi set up with full component of road maintenance equipment.
Obienyem went on to name some of the roads Obi constructed and challenged Umunnakwe to visit them and confirm.
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The roads: Oba-Nnewi Teaching Hospital Road; Onitsha Bridge Head to Umunya; Zik Avenue, Awka; Nnobi-Nnewi Road; Adazi-Nnukwu-Obeledu-Neni; Akwaeze-Oraeri Igbo Ukwu Road; Awgwu-Amaokpala Road with Odor Bridge; Aguluezechukwu-Ogboji-Ajalli Road; Ekwulobia-Nkpologwu-Akpo-Achina-Umuchu Road; Over 30 roads in other parts of Onitsha; Over 25 roads within the GRA, Onitsha; Over 20 stone-based roads within Harbour Industrial Estate, Onitsha; Old Nkpor-Amawbia Road; Awkuzu-Igbarian Road passing through the university; Owerre-Ezukalla-Umuchukwu Road; Ugwuoba-Obosi Road; 33 Junction-Nwafor Orizu College of Education Road; Lilu Road; Nkwele Ezunaka Bypass; roads within Nnewi town; and Roads within the Awka GRA.
Obienyem, who frowned at the antics of jobless youths establishing organisations that only exist on paper to make noise such as the one under which Umunnakwe spoke, advised people like him to look for a better thing that would edify them and humanity.
In Obienyem’s words: “Jude Umunnakwe has become notorious for such.
“When Obi was in government, he wanted to form one, but we warned him not to as such was not agreeable to Obi’s nature.
“We are aware that under Obiano he did the same.
“Today he has found one ostensibly to support Soludo, but actually to use it to make money from people and to lobby for appointment.
“We are not against the type of life he has chosen to live, we are however against taking people’s name in vain.”
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