A popular social cultural group in Rivers State, the Ikwere Bu Otu Peace Movement, has reacted to the face-off between the State governor, Nyesom Wike and his counterpart in Benue State, Governor Samuel Ortom.
The two governors have been in war of words, with Wike claiming announcing his decision to reconstruct the Makurdi-Naka-Adoka and the Aliade-Oju-Obarike-Ifo-Otukpo roads in Benue.
However, President of the group, Amb Prince I. Ihuonwo, expressed surprise that Wike could be planning to commit about N4billion to reconstruct roads in the middle belt state when there were several roads begging for attention in the state.
He reminded the governor that “charity begins at home.”
He told The Nation, “We are surprised that our governor is committing about N4bn to sponsor road in another state and we are here in Ogbakiri [Emuohua local government area] where there has been no road since the creation of Rivers State.
“He [Wike] should not be doing something that he would receive praises for from outside while his people are dying. We have no road, nothing to show, while he is bettering the lives of other people in Benue state.
“How does it benefit people of Rivers? He should start from Ogbakiri, where the people have nothing to show for supporting the PDP.
“It was the former President Shehu Shagari that gave us road. After then former governors [Peter] Odili, [Rotimi] Amaechi and now Wike have been governor yet we do not have road and our governor is building roads in other states?
“We wonder what the point is in doing that because there are people in Ogbakiri who are supporting him and there is nothing for them to show for their support,” Ihunowo said.
