Days after his wife was seen in a viral video receiving the COVID-19 vaccine in America, Willie Obiano has been flayed for imposing a curfew on the state from the United States. On Monday, the All Progressives Congress, APC called it an act of irresponsibility for Obiano to follow his wife to the US and declare a curfew from there.
The state government, however, claimed that the governor was in the U.S. on a business trip. No mention was made on whether he would also be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine while in the U.S.
The Secretary to the State Government, Professor Solo Chukwulobelu, had last Thursday imposed a curfew on the state from 9pm to 6am daily following the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the state.
The governor was quoted as saying the curfew became necessary because COVID -19 protocols were no longer being followed as he warned that the markets would be shut down.
However, responding to the governor’s stay in the U.S. the state secretary of the APC, Mr. Chukwuma Agupugo called on the leadership of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and the State House of Assembly to call Obiano to order.
Agupugo said:
“It is abnormal that a governor, every other month, if he is not abroad, his wife is abroad. It is depletion of Anambra state funds – money that should have been channeled to the development of infrastructure in the state.
“Look at everywhere in Anambra, there is no critical infrastructure. The economy is dwindling.
“It is very pathetic and the governor has travelled again at this biting period of corona virus pandemic.
“Every day you see an increase of the COVID-19 cases in the state and the governor of the state is abroad, without even having the courtesy of transmitting power to his deputy officially. It calls for concern.
The worst is each time he travels; he goes with legion of people. Obiano should come back home and show leadership to the state, devlop infrastructure, increase and improve the economy of the state so that the people of the state will enjoy the dividends of democracy.,” he was, however, quiet on the claim in some quarters that Obiano followed his wife to US to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
“We call on him to cut short his trip and come back to Anambra to address the needs of the people because he cannot see the real issues confronting Anambra State from America. He should come back and rule Anambra from Anambra”
However, the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C. Don Adinuba dismissed the claims saying:
“First of all the governor has not travelled abroad in one year. The governor’s trip abroad is a business trip as he is negotiating with a firm in Brazil concerning Anambra Airport.
“He is actually in Huston, Texas, which is the oil centre of the world, where he is negotiating for Anambra Refinery and Orient Petroleum and those who would want to invest in our crude oil in Aguleri.”
