South-South governors: Calabar-Itu Highway is calling you people
Some days ago, when the Federal Government Delegation reportedly cancelled a proposed meeting with South South Stakeholders, tongues wagged, and rained verbal bullets on Professor Ibrahim Gambari believed to have been the person who gave the order after our revered leaders were already waiting at Government House, Port Harcourt.
Leader of Ijaw Youths literally spitted Armageddon fury, labeling the South South Governors as “our problems.” He was right.
But when he warned the governors not to take allocation again, I knew he didn’t know what he was saying. Even the way the governors buried their faces on the table when he was saying that, it was clear that that particular sermon at Brick’s House fell on bricks. They all left from there and sent for the allocations. Is that not why they are even governors in the first place?
When then the stakeholders’ meeting was rescheduled and held, the nature of demands from stakeholders through the governors confirmed their mission.
They want resource control but not local government autonomy. Immediate relocation of this and that, Immediate commencement of this, immediate completion of that. And nobody, I mean nobody remembered the shameful Calabar-Itu Highway, which always have a permanent position in the federal budget, and which Senator Ita Enang may have commissioned on phone.
Nobody cared to include it on the list of the immediate or even the laters. The governors never showed up for Calabar-Itu Road. For instance, Professor Ben Ayade, even if he didn’t take that road to Port Harcourt, he was always driving there to the head bridge where he mounted sentry for Corona virus in April, May and even June. He saw the road, he passed through it, and the road was even worst by then. He feigned bliss for a “blushy” situation. Other Governors may not have used the road recently except they watch it on television or read on newspapers, if at all they do.
I put it to all of them that their demands were selfish. And it is BAD. Calabar-Itu Highway is calling you people back o!
