Jonathan’s Claims To Rebuild Rumuwoji Mile One A Deceit  

 

President Goodluck Jonathan

Angry reaction has trailed the plan by the Federal Government to rebuild the Rumuwoji Mile One Market as announced yesterday by the President Goodluck Jonathan through Adamu Muazu, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, while handing over N250 million cheque and some relief materials to the traders who suffered fire disaster in December last year.
The Mayor of the Port Harcourt City Local Government Council, Nnamdi Nwuche, has pooh-poohed the announcement as a mere deceit by Jonathan to gain cheap popularity in a state that he had abandoned, and cannot lay claim to any tangible project his administration had executed despite garnering the highest votes in the Rivers during the Presidential election.
Nwuche gave his swift reaction in a statement in Port Harcourt a few hours after the announcement made by Muazu that rebuilding the Rumuwoji Mile One would be one of President Jonathan’s first priority project if he wins the second tenure in 2015. He brandished the statement by Mu’azu as a fake promissory note that is “unachievable and unrealisable.”
He said: “The PDP and Mr President knows that building and the running of local markets are the statutory duty of the local government councils as laid out in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
The Port City Council boss whose council regulates the daily operation of the market announced that contrary to the impression the federal government has created thereby turning the grief of the hapless traders in a political campaign article, the Rivers State Government has mobilised the contactors to start the building of a new market.
“Governor Chibuike Amaechi has graciously approved the mobilization of contractors to commence work at the burnt market. Monier Construction Company, MCC, limited is one of the companies that were awarded the contract and the company would mobilize to site two week’s time,” Nwuche said.