Rt. Hon. Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu State Governor |
The best and most sought after business consultants, researchers and publishers, Tectono Business Review, learnt that the Enugu State House of Assembly had on Tuesday summoned some contractors over road and some other capital projects handled by Barrister Chime’s administration. This development orchestrated the accusation of Governor Ugwuanyi of hiding under the State House of Assembly to probe Barrister Chime.
Conversely,
the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr.
Uwakwe Abugu, in a press statement, labeled the news report entitled “Enugu
Governor Begins Probe of Predecessor, Godfather”, a huge deception of the mass-
reader.
Mr. Abugu
said: The news report was a deliberate attempt to
create and stoke the embers of a non-existent rift among political leaders in
Enugu state which currently enjoys visible peace, harmony and progressive
actions midwifed by the administration of the state governor, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi. It is an embarrassing distortion of journalistic story-telling for
the headline of the said news report to scream an alleged probe of the former
governor of the state by the incumbent governor when the body of the story
contains nothing about any action of the governor in that regard but purely
legislative oversight functions of the Enugu state House of Assembly.
“Any
discerning mind which goes through the report would naturally ask, ‘whither the
role or hand of the state governor in the actions of the state assembly which
decided to look into executions of some contracts in the state’? At the moment,
Governor Ugwuanyi is engrossed in several salvage actions of his administration
aimed at raising the bar of performance in all spheres of governance. His is an
administration embedded in momentous actions involving flag-off of development
projects, continuous engagements with various stakeholder groups, business
groups with a view to ensuring that no stone is left unturned in the drive to
achieve all aspects of the four-point agenda of the government.”
“The
governor, being a true democrat, and having served his people for a decade and
two years as a dependable National Assembly member, would not use his present
office to meddle in the affairs of the legislative arm of government in Enugu
state. In fact, the state assembly goes about its constitutional duties without
any form of encumbrance by the executive arm. It is grossly unfair for the news
medium to skew its interpretation of the constitutional function of the state
assembly to mean that Governor Ugwuanyi, in its own words, ‘Begins Probe of
Predecessor, Godfather’.
“The
general atmosphere of cordiality in Enugu’s political environment since the
governor assumed office on May 29 is a direct result of his personal and
official efforts to galvanize all leaders of the state into working for the
general well-being of the people because he believes, and it is truly so, that
his desired development for the state can only be achieved in an atmosphere of
peace and harmony among the critical stakeholders.”
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