Ebonyi 2027: Nwifuru doesn’t deserve re-election, group lambasts Commerce Commissioner

Ahead of next year governorship election in Ebonyi state, a diaspora group, the Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in the Diaspora (AEISCID), has said the state governor do not deserve to be re-elected.

The group was responding to a recent media release credited to the Ebonyi State’s Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Oguzor Nwali, who discribed it as “another mischievous youth gang of Anyi Chuks Campaign Council.”

The Commissioner was also reported to have called the group “an amateur gang-up, the group lacks clear-cut delineation of what it actually represents…”

In a statement signed on Thursday by its President worldwide, Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, AEISCID challenged the commissioner to reel out Governor Nwifuru’s performance scorecard sector by sector or even focus on only his ministry and a few others.

According to the statement, it has become audible to even the deaf and visible to the blind that Nwifuru had no completed projects to showcase to the Presidential Media Team that recently visited Ebonyi on a tour.

“From the Vanco flyover and tunnel that has since turned into a large swimming pool in this rainy season to the ICT University in Oferekpe Agbaja that has only partially completed staff quarters and then to the litany of uncompleted modern civil servants staff quarters and schools littered across the State, the story is the same that Nwifuru who now receives more allocations have done absolutely nothing to justify the huge billions of money he gets from the centre.

“Worse still, he and his large corterie of looting appointees feel greatly entitled to a second term in office without any records of achievements in the first. As a matter of fact and concern, APC’s 4+4= 8 signposts projects have become the only visible sign that there’s a government in Ebonyi State.

“It suffices therefore that like Tinubu’s Emi lokan, Nwifuru feels his Izzi clan is so entitled to another term in office that he boldly threatened the opposition in a recent endorsement rally for Tinubu that he has all it takes to consume them.

“This is coming at a time when his counterparts in Enugu and Abia States are both planning for commercial and cargo airplanes to begin landings in Aba and Enugu from December this year as disclosed recently by the Minister for Aviation, Festus Keyamo.

“It is a huge slap on the face of reasonable Ebonyians that sycopathic sycophants like Oguzor could dismiss the verifiable position of many Ebonyians as ‘misplaced’, ‘unfounded’, and ‘preposterous’ and even ascribed the adjectives; ‘visionary’, coordinated’, and ‘pro-development’ leader to Nwifuru who has been at best utterly clueless in the rating of many within and beyond the State. Oguzor Nwali note that there’s no performance to be measured needless to talk about hyper-performance under the current administration that has taken pride in sponsoring more weddings, burials and child dedication ceremonies for Nwifuru’s very extended family than focusing on rural or even urban development projects.

“Ebonyi airport on the other hand is only useful for renting and landing of chattered private jets by the State government and at tax payers expense. The government has been lavish in wasting tax-payers funds in the last three years largely because there has been no strong opposition to checkmate its excesses and we rightly reiterate our earlier position that the masses should outrightly reject Nwifuru’s second term bid because he doesn’t deserve it. They should rather support a credible alternative like Anyichuks as already canvassed by the Umuekumenyi Leaders Council in its recent World Press Conference in Abakaliki.”

While discribing the Commerce Commissioner as a “distressed” politician, the diaspora group also commended him “for attempting the role of a government ‘Spokesperson’ as he has always done on Facebook and other social media handles even though with very poor grammatical construction. The last he replied on Facebook actually had over 20 syntax and lexical including spelling errors.

“We would therefore counsel that hence he has taken up the unofficial role of speaking for the government, he should do well to hire the services of professional writers and editors so he does not continue to embarrass Ebonyians and his office!”