By Raymond Ozoji, Awka
The Convener Obizi Youth Movement Mr. Francis Chukwuebuka Ezeilo has explained how Transition Committee Chairmen from Obizi axis underdeveloped and stagnated Awka-South Local Government Area.
Ezeilo who hails from Mbaukwu in Awka-South council area stated while fielding questions from journalists at Nibo Civic Centre shortly after a youth empowerment summit, that the tenure of the immediate past TC Chairman whom he said is a native of Isiagu in Obizi was nothing to write home about because he believes that the council area was completely underdeveloped under his watch.
Ezeilo said that the battle for the chairmanship position between Okpuno Awka and Obizi was uncalled for because he believes that he who goes to equity, goes with fairness; hence the need to allow an Okpuno person to occupy the chairmanship position after which it will be the turn of Obizi again.
The youngster who observed that there is no minority in politics, maintained that the immediate past TC Chairman and a former Chairman Prince Azubuike Iloh who hails from Nise were both of Obizi origin yet there are no meaningful milestones under their administrations respectively.
Although he opined that there maybe arguments and counter arguments that the Awka axis of Awka-South Local Government Area have occupied the Chairmanship Seat for too long but according to him, such ideaology will only breed what he described as divide and rule system, emphasizing that there is a dire need for stakeholders in Awka-South to return to the discussion table and sort things out.
He said for him, he would opt for an Okpuno person to be the Chairman because the immediate past Chairman was from Obizi area. Although he pointed out that he would not blame them for their poor performance in office due to apparent lack of local government autonomy, he thanked the federal government under Bola Ahmed Tinubu for breaking the age long jinx of perpetual servitude local governments have subjected to.
He recalled that no concrete local government election has been conducted in Anambra State since the era of Peter Obi as it has been by appointments and delegation of powers, adding that the unitary system of government which he said vested so much powers in the Executive arm culminated drastically into the abysmal performance of most of the TC chairmen.
Although Ezeilo noted that the likes of Idemili-South, Anaocha, Aguata and a few other TC Chairmen are doing wonderfully well because they obviously have a grip on the grassroots, he said Prince Azubuike Iloh as Awka-South TC Chairman did something on Nibo-Nise road and other projects; the immediate past TC Chairman, he said tried in his capacity but his efforts were nothing to write home about.
Ezeilo however posited that for equity sake, an Okpuno person should become Awka-South Local Government Chairman so that thereafter power would return to Obizi and communities like Umuawulu, Mbaukwu, Nibo and Ezinato would have a taste of the council authority because Nise and Isiagu, according to him, have had their fair share of Awka-South chairmanship position.
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