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PROUDIGBO:
^^^Nwokem, go to bed! Chime has done brilliantly well!

Have you taken note of the positive investment climate in the Enugu of today; the improved security situation; the improved IGR (which was 3rd or 4th highest in 2013); the almost completed state secretariat; the polo park mall and the improving real estate investments! The secretariat is not 100% complete yet because they're doing a top-notch job.....a legacy for the state that will last and be relevant for decades to come, kinda like the state assembly complex and gov't house built in the 60s by Dr M I Okpara!

Nobody is saying it's uhuru, but bearing in mind the states allocation from the center and other handicaps we should cut the Governor some slack!

The bolded says it all, I hope the secretariat does not suffer the same fate that the international conference centre and hotel which was also to use your own words "almost completed" by the previous administration but chime chose to abandon it.

I still challenge you to Factually challenge any part of the article above, that's not a true representation of the shambolic administration of chime in these unfortunate 8yrs of chime that is best described as a biblical "years the locust has eaten".

spyder880:
We should not even cry too much about Chime, why didn't we do anything about him if we think he performed so poorly? and we are only waking up from sleep now to discredit him at the 99 and half hour, whatever he did to lull us to sleep for 8 years must be good

Why didn't we impeach him all these while?

Anyways,this is too fine a weekend to argue about a man who is going home to rest after 8 years. I will go back to watching my soccer match

If you said he completed projects besides the few roads you mentioned please name them? Everything written about chime above is true, He has not completed a single major project in 8 years,And thats a fact no matter how it hurts.

The reason these record is complied is to document and take stock of the achievement of chime so that the incoming government and future governors will learn from it and do better than chime.

I dont see you complaining about the positive things said about chime in the above article eg improvement of security in enugu, street lighting etc. Chime is a big disappointment and he failed to deliver a major project in enugu for eight years, that unfortunately is true Spyder.
He may have performed better than TA orji but that is not saying much about his accomplishments.Incomming governor please do better than chime.

spyder880:
Big lies at bolded, what about the coal camp roads, New haven tunnel bypass, Udi-Ozalla road, Opi Nsukka-Nike roads, Emene bypass roads and other major roads? Did he not complete those 100%?

Every state Govt in nigeria has completed one road or the other, roads are easy even TA orji built and completed some roads. The Author said any major project and even you his supporter did not mention any major project completed by chime except a few roads he built. was he elected to only build a handful of roads in eight years?

I pray that APC and GMB persecute jonathan and those that served in his government. It will be the best thing for the Unity of this country and the success of the incoming administration of GMB.
Please persecute them and send GEJ and his ministers to jail especially Diezani.

[size=14pt]ENUGU: Chime Years, To Forget Or Not To Forget[/size]

ENUGU State Governor, Sullivan Chime, will, by May 29, this year, complete his eight-year tenure.

Perhaps, one of the legacies that will live after him is, the peace and security he ushered in, on arrival at the Lion Building, and which he sustained till 2015. Before his ascension, Enugu residents lived with uncertainty. There were rampant killings and robberies that took nightlife and development away. Residents were in fear and slept with one eye opened. It was common sight before his arrival to see several apartments barricaded with iron bars, and streets becoming empty as early as 7pm.

Speaking on this development, Chief Michael Nwachukwu explained that the security boost by the governor was the tonic needed to launch the state on the path of development and economic growth.

“We were able to have street lights functioning again. Several urban roads were opened to reduce traffic jams. He has maintained some level of sanctity on the roads with constructions, and traffic lights installed at designated junctions. Orderliness was also achieved with the ban on the operation of commercial motorcycles. Though, many have criticised his administration, our people are beginning to reap the impact, as there are less accidents on our roads,” he said.

Nwachukwu, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said Chime would be remembered for conducting periodic local council elections in the state. He said the governor, through this, empowered the third tier of government that brought governance close to the people. “It was no longer appointment of administrators, as it happened in almost every state of the country. Here in Enugu, under Chime, we have elected council chairmen and councilors, who make laws, execute projects and are wholly in charge of affairs at their councils. Chime gave them a free hand to operate. He did not tamper with their allocation.”

He pointed at the ongoing construction of the new workers’ secretariat in Enugu as one of the enduring legacies of the Chime administration, adding that the project, when completed, will give a new lease of life to the state’s workforce. “Workers can now boast of Internet facilities and work with relative ease, unlike previous chaotic arrangements where they barely give their best, due to poor working conditions.”


But Osmond Ugwu, one of the union leaders in the state, condemned the idea of building a new secretariat when “workers are hungry.” He said Enugu workers would like to forget the Chime administration in a hurry, as they gained nothing from it.

“It is on record that Chime remains the only governor that refused to pay the new minimum wage approved by the federal government. Leave allowances were never paid, among other welfare packages. Recruitments were never an issue for his administration. The government believes in strangulation of the workforce, especially, those who opposed the mess going on in the state.

“There is no basis for the administration to remain in office. To further humiliate the workers, several governors attended Workers’ Day celebrations in their state, but such was not the case with his administration; he never attended any held in Enugu. So, the workers never had it easy with him. He should not build a secretariat for the dead but for the living,” Ugwu said.

Another thing people of the state will possibly want to forget in a hurry is Chime’s attitude to official engagements. He either went to official functions late or never showed up at all. There are several stories of individuals and organisations that had to reschedule their events because they wanted the governor involved. It was gathered that because of this attitude to work, certain government responsibilities shifted to his former chief of staff, who allegedly, ran the administration the way she wanted, and in the process, created many enemies for Chime.

The case of Sunday Onyebuchi, his former Deputy, who was impeached less than six months to the end of the administration, is still fresh and remains one of the saddest milestones in the history of his government.

Against public outcry that the move was too late in the day, the governor ensured Onyebuchi was removed over allegations he had poultry in his compound, even when there is a bigger poultry at the governor’s lodge.

The removal of Onyebuchi became one of the low points of the administration, coming few months after the governor had spent nearly a year receiving medical attention overseas.

The poor culture of continuity that stalled public projects started by his predecessor, is another low point of the administration. Residents may not forgive him in a hurry for refusal to complete the International Conference Centre, at Okpara Square, which Nnamani started.

The Guardian learnt that the state-of-the-art centre was about 80 per cent completed when the Nnamani administration ended. Chime refused to complete the project, citing his administration’s lack of resources. It turned out, however, that the administration, in its latter days, sold portions of the land to private developers without applying due process. The issue remained a controversial one, attracting the ire of residents with many threatening court action.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Dominic Okwukwe, said: “Enugu will like to forget in a hurry the primitive acquisition that trailed the last days of the Chime administration: the manner the Conference Centre was sold, the old Eastern Manufacturing Centre on Zik Avenue, the selling of land behind House of Assembly, the Hotel Presidential Enugu, the State Diagnostic Centre, which was never completed four years after, among others.”

He added: “Enugu borrowed over N5bn from the World Bank to reticulate water in the state, in 2006. But as we speak, there is no water anywhere. Government is yet to repay the debts. I have not seen any project the administration has completed in the last eight years. Look at the Diagnostic Centre, the International Conference centre, the new secretariat, even after the government allegedly invested N13bn in the project. So, Enugu will like to forget Chime in a hurry and wish that his type never show up in the leadership of the state again.”

He lamented the state of the education sector, saying: “Our primary schools remained on the drawing board of renovation in the last eight years. There was the N36bn UBEC funding earmarked for the renovation. But as we speak, the funds cannot be accounted for. It has now become an issue of controversy as the House has launched a probe. So, it was not the best of times for Enugu under the Chime administration and we will not forget what happened to the future of the education of our youths.”
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/05/enugu-chime-years-to-forget-or-not-to-forget/

hmmn

ALL NNPC staff from the minister to the office cleaner must be sacked and replaced with new hands.

PDP must be re-structured for 2019, the current chairman, the NWC and all the executives who were in office during the last presidential election must do the right thing: Which is to tender their resignation to the party to give room for fresh hands and brains who will led the restructuring of the party to reposition it for future elections.

The international best practice the world over is for party executives who couldn't deliver during elections to resign voluntarily, But since this is Nigeria and we don't volunteer for anything, the PDP executives,NWC and BOT etc might need a little nudging by the relevant entities to do the right thing.

President Zuma has signed a bill that is by all accounts the best step in history of attempting to battle HIV/AIDS.From now on every individual who gets tested and discovered to be HIV positive would not simply get counselling and medicine. They would likewise get an imprint in a form of a tattoo close to their privates as per the bill singed by the president. “The mark is to protect those who can’t say no to sex. I mean if you can’t read between the lines you should read between the legs because that’s where the status would be tatted. The choice to be HIV positive is now in your hands or your genitals for that matter….We also encourage those who had been living with the virus to go to the nearest public hospitals to get their status tatted in”. Said Jacob Zuma after signing the bill. - See more at: http://ooduarere.com/news-from-nigeria/breaking-news/south-africa-to-start-placing-tattoo-on-privates-of-people-with-hiv-aids/#sthash.TRma1Pka.dpuf

[size=15pt]The African hall of fame[/size]
(1) Nwalimu Julius Nyerere of Tanzania

(2) Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

(3) Anwar Sadat of Egypt

(4) Nelson Mandela of South Africa

(5) Obafemi Awolowo of Nigeria

(6) Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya

(7) Desmond Tutu of South Africa

( Tai Solarin of Nigeria

(9) Kofi Annan of Ghana

(10) Emeka Anyaoku of Nigeria

(11) Ft. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings of Ghana

(12) Wole Soyinka of Nigeria

(13) Gani Fawehinmi of Nigeria

(14) Colonel Abubakar Umar of Nigeria

(15) Captain Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso

* They led the people, used their influence, and risked everything to advance African and human causes. Thank you!

[size=15pt]The African hall of shame[/size]

(1) General Sani Abacha of Nigeria

(2) Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe

(3) Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire

(4) General Moammar Gadaffi of Libya

(5) Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo

(6) Mengistu Hailemariam of Ethiopia

(7) Siad Barre of Somalia

( Felix Houphouet-Boigny of Ivory Coast

(9) Macias Nguema of Equatorial Guinea

(10) Charles Taylor of Liberia

(11) Arap Moi of Kenya

(12) Jafer Numeri of Sudan

(13) Jean Bedel Bokassa of Central African Republic

(14) Laurent-Desire Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo

* They ran some of the most corrupt, vicious, avaricious, and capricious dictatorships in the annals of African leadership.

http://www.africaundisguised.com/newsportal/fame

APC will find it very hard to live down the beating they received in Akwa Ibom And the SS/SE.

vaniesexy:
rivers people leave south east from ur list,PDP has only two states in d south east, ebonyi and Enugu state.

Abia and imo soon to become PDP.

[size=15pt]APC cry me a river, only a mad man will expect APC to win an election in Akwa Ibom State, for that to happen you need to remove all the projects the state government built in the state and erase the memory of those projects from the minds of Akwa Ibom people.[/size]

sanky346:
@notobs...You said u are glad Jonathan didn't use the instruments of office to witchunt his opponents. What will you call the use of Commissioner Mbu to witchunt Amaechi. When an ordinary commissioner will have the gut to insult a sitting governor? When even Wike will use army to break into the State owned stadium against the directive of the governor? Jonathan and his wife abused power to the letter and this last minute rush to paint Jonathan as a statesman just because of one congratulatory call can't cover the fact that he messed up with the instruments of power. I just hope Buhari has really changed. I just hope Buhari is now a real democrat. I just hope Buhari won't be like Obj that doesn't forgive and forget. I just hope Buhari will be magnanimous in victory. If not, Wike and Patience Jonathan won't know what hit them

Get your facts right, CP Mbu did not witch hunt Amaechi in anyway, Amaechi wanted to pocket the CP, and use him to satisfy his whims and caprices, When Mbu said no, Amaechi started acting out his fictional script of plots and counter plots to discredit the CP and jonathan.

Amaechi studied literature so he is well versed in Drama and he used it effectively in his fictitious political drama series in Rivers state.
But you know what the audience at home did not buy it because they saw the sleigh of hand on stage because they were inside the theater when those plays were staged, hence when it mattered 1.4 million of them voted against him and his party.

The only people that were fooled by the drama were those from the SW and the north Who were too far away from the state to notice the sleigh of hand and have now become amaechi best friends.

We wish them good luck with our wayward/ traitor son. Our advise to them is give him a satisfactory 30 pieces of silver if not APC and buhari will be the next characters in part 2 of Amaechi's political Drama.

peegirl:
Just admit it, you are jealous of amaechi. Jealousy is truly d root of all dis bile you've been spewing o,,,.

Yes i and 1.4million Rivers people that voted against Amaechi are very jealous of Amaechi! get it?
Yikes, why would anyone be jealous of a betrayer and a traitor? Do we want to betray family and friends like Amaechi? Hell no.

peegirl:
Liar,,,,,,!!!!

Truther, folks like you resort to name calling when the truth stares you in the Face.

Danielstainz:
Was there at the meeting ...the Judas was told to be incharge of washing presidential plates and supervising aso rock workers.. Wike please bring him back to rivers state and jail him .

Wike will only tender evidence of corruption against Amaechi and dare the anti- corruption general to jail him as he promised, But we all know that the general will not be able to jail Amaechi even in the face of those mounting evidence.

That will be the first test of his Ant- corruption crusade. I will be watching it in HD!

Jorussia:
As things stand now,wike needs Amaechi's assistance more than that of PATIENCE JONATHAN. If wike decides to continue engage amaechi in a political fight,when he becomes gov, i can assure you that his govt will be a collosal failure.

keep dreaming, and stop smoking that cheap stuff!

Jorussia:
I am glad you also, observed what i saw on tv this evening. the various comments that pro wike supporters have been making here since,wike not publicly dare make them.WIKE and patience will definitely have problems, just like the current case in bayelsa. i dont see How wike will be able to satisfy two former govs,and other political big whips with just rivers resources.

Mr man we are not in the military regime anymore where people are threatened into silence, we now live in an information age where things information get out with the speed of light as its happening live.

Nigeria is no more governed with decree that are made up as you go, we now have a constitution and rule of law to follow that ain't changing.

Any attempt to infringe on the right of any nigeria will be resisted. Wike will be governor and he will have the right of an opposition to resist the power at the centre freely just like Fashola, shettima, Amaechi and other Opposition APC governors resisted jonathan freely.
Thank God Fayose has already set the pace for buhari what happened during the election will be amped 1million times when the APC govt at the centre is out of line.

If APC thinks they were an effective opposition they should brace up for the opposition that will come from PDP .

millhouse:
and when wike exposes d fraud perpetrated by amaechi in rivers state to all...lets see if mr anti corruption president wount do anyting...that would be d first failure on his govt.

Donot forget that he and his campaign are direct beneficiary of the corruption in rivers state, as state funds were diverted to fund APC party activities, Dont expect mr Anti corruption to do anything about that and the corruption of tinubu and his minions.

This is why i never bought his anti corruption crusade, the best he will do is turn the EFCC against political opponents like OBJ did, One thing i respect jonathan was that he never used the instrument of office to witchhunt any political opponent, the press and politicians were free to do as they pleased and for once in Nigeria's history we lived like people live in true democratic societies across the world.
I hope there will not be an attempt to curb the freedom that Nigerians are now used to.

masseratti:
we don hear enjoy wike abeg for the next four years abeg.

And you my Friend, Enjoy the change that buhari has promised for the next four years.

N1 = $1 and N5000 = $5000 paid to unemployed youths like you should make you real happy and expectant until that very moment that you realise that expectation does not match reality, We will be here watching and laughing with a box of popcorn and can coke with my name on it.

I expect nothing from the change that Buhari and APC promised and i did not buy it for a second, i did not vote for it so i will not be disappointed when he fails to control the price of crude in the international market or fail to create the 750,000 jobs every month, eradicate corruption amongst other Utopian and naive promises of changed he made.

Jorussia:
see for your info,it will be best for wike to start doing everything possible to mend fences with amaechi.,if not,he will be taking rivers back to the experience of the past one year plus were there was no synergy between d federal govt and state.Remember, wike,will nv get anything from buhari's govt expect through amaechi.I just love amaechi,because he is a fearless fighter,if not for amaechi,buhari wouldn't have won d election, because he repackaged the GMB and majority of Nigerians fell in love with him.GOD BLESS RIGHT HON,ROTIMI AMAECHI.

We pray that Buhari will give amaechi a satisfactory 30 pieces of silver for betraying jonathan, if not Amaechi will betray him, his party and government the same way he did GEJ.

Grabs my popcorn and Cancoke with my name and starts watching the drama unfold.

Reports reaching us SS people residing in Abuja is that the "Lion of Ubima" who was neutered by Wike on Saturdays Guber election has arrived Abuja this morning to collect his 30 pieces of silver from the APC.

Reports reaching us indicates that the Governor was in meeting with APC bigwigs all day today, and when the governor arrived back at the rivers state liaison office in Abuja he didn't look happy at all, and judging from the body language of the neutered lion of Ubima, it appears that the governor was not pleased on the outcome of the meeting.

The mood of the governor was reported to be angry,forlorn,sad,defeated and dejected which is out of character for the usually ebullient skelewu dancing and broom waving out going governor of rivers state.

The governor has not yet made any statement or confided in anyone on the outcome of the meeting,but we can speculate that the governor may not happy with his 30 pieces of silver offered or that APC has decided to delay the payment.

Jorussia:
Thank God you cited the example of Anyim as SGF,you recall that anyim successfully overpowered elechi. in ebonyi.The structure of APC in rivers will not collapse.

okay let him try to revive APC in Rivers we are watching, Amaechi is nolonger in PDP and PDP problem has ended.

Caseless:
is there any region where that nonsense played out like SS/SE? People voted in the north, unlike ur ss/se. Buhari do not need rigging to win in the north, you know this.

GEJ did not need any rigging in the south south and south east to win either, and wike certainly did not need any rigging to win in rivers 1.2 million votes against amaech's 100,000 is proof.

Jorussia:
After may29 you guys here that is shouting that amaechi has lost all political relevance,will realise that Wike will be nothing but a big loser.Buhari will never betray amaechi.Amaechi will be SGF and there is nothing you guys can do about that.

Pius Ayim was SFG, we have seen how much power he wielded
There is nothing that Buhari will give amaechi that will compensate for his loss of rivers state political base,the respect of his people and the perks that comes with coming home to a warm welcome at PH airport with the state official standing at ovation, something Amaechi will never enjoy again but his fellow ex- governors whose political structures are intact at the state level will enjoy.

And to add salt to injury, his former chief of staff his arc enemy has deflated him, and for the next four years he will have to live with that defeat! yikes that hurts real bad.

koboko69:
Sentimental/rigged votes u mean? How people forget so easily. What started the drama in the first place. Jang who is closer to the North whom they so much hate was gonna be forced as the PDP gov forum chairman With the infamous 16>19 abrakadabra. Is that not betrayal? Now who started the betrayal?

the governors office forum chairmanship was a rotational position, Amaechi completed his term and it was time for the position to rotate back to the north with jang as head, and amaechi in his usually "If not my way then the highway" refused to step down.
You cannot rewrite history, Amaechi is a betrayer and 1.4 million votes from his people in rivers against him confirms his lack of character.

koboko69:
Sentimental/rigged votes u mean? How people forget so easily. What started the drama in the first place. Jang who is closer to the North whom they so much hate was gonna be forced as the PDP gov forum chairman With the infamous 16>19 abrakadabra. Is that not betrayal? Now who started the betrayal?

You mean the same sentimental /rigged votes that helped Buhari to win the presidential election?

BekeeBuAgbara:
He should be given minister of state for tourism.

knowing amaechi, thats the kind of 30 pieces of silver he will reject outright and start leaking APC secrets within minutes of rejecting the offer

koboko69:
Time can never heal some people's wound. Ameachi was betrayed and not the vice versa. I wonder why some clowns still dont see that. Since when 16 became greater than 19....the betrayal began!

Over 1.4million votes from his closest people, the people of rivers state who know him better than anyone else, and voted against him is a testimony that you are wrong about amaechi. He is a betrayer of his people and brother. and the rivers people have spoken loudly with their vote.