Politics | PDD mocks Uzodimma for having lavish Birthday Celebration
PDD mocks Uzodimma for having lavish Birthday Celebration
The 63rd birthday celebration of the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma held at Government House Owerri on Sunday has provoked a furious reaction from the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state.
The PDP in a statement signed by Mazi Emenike Nmeregini, Acting State Publicity Secretary and made available to Newsmen in Owerri, said the lavishly obscene birthday party where hundreds of millions of naira were spent on very expensive wines, champagnes and young girls imported from foreign countries, while workers and pensioners are owed in arrears, roads in the state are in collapsed state, is a mockery of the victims of the ongoing killings in Imo and a naked dance on the graves of the dead.
The party described the event as the height of provocation, saying few days ago, the Traditional Ruler of Atta Kingdom in Njaba was abducted, killed and his corpse dropped at the village square. According to the opposition party, In the same vein, no fewer than four indigenes of the same Atta community, were murdered on that day. At the dawn of yesterday, the Traditional Rulers of Amagu Ihube and Ihitte Ihube, both in Okigwe LGA, were kidnapped and their palaces set ablaze.
Throughout Imo state, it has been a tale of tears, a season of blood and a festival of fire, The Statement read
