IMO: PDP says Uzodinma’s 120 roads claim, false, fictitious

Austin Okoro DDM NEWS

The People’s Democratic Party PDP Imo state has stated that Governor Hope Uzodinma’s claim that he built 120 roads was false, fictitious and deceitful.

The party has challenged him to to name and publish the roads with their specific locations.

This was contained in a statement of February 8th 2025 by the party’s spokesman, Lancelot Obiaku and made available to the Press.

It states: “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State chapter, along with the entirety of the Imo people, has been taken aback by the recent comment from Gov. Hope Uzodimma that his administration has constructed “over 120 roads” in the state, describing such a claim as fictitious, dubious, and a lie from the pit of hell.

“The party wonders what could have motivated the governor to make such a bogus claim if not to give a false and deceptive impression to outsiders that his disastrous, ruinous, and wasteful administration has improved Imo roads over the past five years.

“However, the truth is that the Uzodimma regime has failed to make any meaningful impact on road infrastructure, as the state remains the worst in the Southeast in terms of road network, with a plethora of dilapidated, impassable roads littered across the state.

“Importantly, we challenge the governor to name and publish the 120 roads he claims to have constructed in state and national tabloids, with verifiable addresses, so that both Imo people and outsiders alike can verify them.

“Additionally, he should disclose the costs of constructing these imaginary roads, as well as the construction companies awarded the contracts.

“While Imo PDP acknowledges that talk is cheap, we reckon that, given the present regime’s culture of unaccountability and financial recklessness, the claim of nonexistent 120 roads by the governor could mean that his administration has swindled billions from the state treasury—on top of the hundreds of billions in unaccounted-for local government allocations—all in the name of constructing 120 roads that exist only in their corrupt imaginations.

“Imo PDP urges the governor to help ndi Imo unravel the mystery of how the state government resurfaced a 6-kilometer, non-priority Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Road with much fanfare, while just nearby, the Rapour Junction/Standard Shoe/Mechanic Village/Works Layout ring roads and the Amakohia Flyover–Orji Flyover Road remain impassable and abandoned.

“What about the Akwakuma–Hardel Junction Road leading to Timber Market Umuoneyali, the Umuguma Road, the Nekede–Ihiagwa Road, and the various impassable roads in New Owerri, which have become death traps?

“How the state government claims to have constructed 120 roads in five years without addressing these terribly bad roads defies logic. This is not to mention the roads in and leading to various Imo communities that are completely not motorable.

“No wonder the governor’s statement was greeted with so much uproar and anger, which still rages on. Imolites, who struggle daily to go about their businesses due to bad roads, cannot stand the supposed leader of the state lying on top of their misery while also sitting on their commonwealth”, the statement read.

Obiaku’s statement corroborates the earlier statement written by the leadership of Umuguma neighborhood association calling Governor Hope Uzodinma and the Commissioner for Works, Ralph Nwosu to come to their aid and repair the dilapidated Umuguma roads, our reporter gathered.

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