Obiano Birthday Splash Was Unnecessary - Labour Party

The Anambra State chapter of the Labour Party has claimed Governor Willie Obiano used state funds to celebrate his birthday even as governors all over the country are crying out for money.

The chapter’s chairman, Comrade Luke Ezeanokwasa told reporters yesterday in Awka that the spending shows how insensitive Obiano is to the people’s needs in the state.


Obiano in Ocha Brigade uniform

Obiano Birthday Splash Was Unnecessary - Labour Party

He said: “It is unnecessary waste of public fund for the Governor to be organizing his birthday to massage his ego at a period when the revenue profiles of various governments in the country have gone down drastically and when many projects have been stalled in the state for lack of fund”, said the Labour Party boss.

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He announced that Obiano had also interfered the Local Government funds in the state and questioned the where about of about N80 billion being allocation of Local Governments in the state for the past 16 months.

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Ezeanokwasa also said that Obiano lacked the correct know how on how to govern the state, he explained this by saying that the decision to bring Local Government administration in the state to a halt by starving them of their statutory fund has crippled the development in the Local Governments in the state.

Obiano turned 57 years old on Friday in a widely colourful and spectacular birthday celebration which pictures have spread all over the nations papers.