Peter Obi Hits Ngige: Your Tenure As Anambra Gov Achieved Nothing

Former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has described the administration of his predecessor, Chris Ngige, as a failure.

Obi, who was the 2019 vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said this while reacting to claims allegedly made by Ngige that his administration did not construct good roads in the state after succeeding him (Ngige) as governor.

Obi said Ngige, who is current Minister of Labour and Employment, achieved “little or nothing” during his 32-month reign as Anambra governor. Ngige’s 2003 victory had been nullified by an election tribunal before the end of his second term.  

“Over 90 per cent of the roads, Ngige mentioned he built were done in his Local Government Area,” Obi’s spokesperson, Valentine Obienyem, said in reacting to the minster’s claim.

“Knowing the importance of road maintenance, shortly before he left, Obi set up the Anambra State Road Maintenance Agency with full compliments of brand new equipment.”

He said unlike Ngige, he patronised local contractors in the state and “left over N4bn in the ministry of works for road maintenance before he handed over”.

“Where will the comparison start? Is it health, where Ngige did nothing? Is it education, where Ngige did nothing? Is it commerce and industry, where Ngige did nothing?” the statement added.

“Is it the provision of infrastructure, where all he did was to cause the burning down of the state? Is it our relationship with donor agencies? Where? What is most condemnable in Ngige’s attacks are the lies he tells just to bring Obi down.”