‘Give Us Prado Jeeps Or No Support For Your Reelection Bid’ – Anambra Lawmakers Warn Obiano

Some members of the Anambra State House of Assembly have given the state Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, a condition to support his re-election campaign.

The lawmakers are demanding that the governor must give a Prado SUV to each lawmaker to get their support.

Punch reports that the lawmaker spearheading the demand for Prado SUVs, Mr. Onyebuchi Offor, the Minority Leader in the House, had at a forum accused the governor of neglecting the legislature.

He described the condition of service at the House as deplorable.

Offor alleged that the governor diverted about N1.2bn as security votes monthly, describing it as unjust.

Some lawmakers also corroborated Offor’s claims and alleged they were neglected by the governor.

One of them said, “We can’t continue this way. This is a man (governor) who does not listen to advice and he has continued to fail to recognise the lawmakers in terms of bettering their condition of service.

“Our colleagues in other states move in jeeps but what we use here is Escape car which is ridiculous. What is the governor doing with N1.2bn every month as security vote; we are not going to allow him to continue like that.

“He has to provide us with Prado Jeeps and improve our condition of service, otherwise we will wait for him during the election,” the lawmaker stated.

In his reaction, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Tony Nnacheta, said he was not ready to join issues with the legislators on a matter that was speculative and baseless.

“We are not merchants that if you say you need Prado Jeep, we give you. Are they saying we should give them Prado Jeeps because our economy has improved or what?

“Are they saying that we should abandon our responsibility of paying workers and pensioners and buy jeeps for them?

On the governor’s security, Nnacheta said he would not want to discuss such issues on pages of newspapers.

He said “Security is a sensitive issue you don’t discuss anyhow. But one issue that is clear is that security in the state has changed for good.”