DR CHIMA MATTHEW AMADI DECRIES GOVERNMENT FAILURE AS IMO WOMEN TAKE ON COMMUNITY PROJECTS

The Action Peoples Party (APP) Senatorial Candidate for Owerri Zone, Dr Chima Matthew Amadi, has decried the growing burden being placed on ordinary citizens to provide basic amenities and community development projects that should ordinarily be the responsibility of government.

Dr Amadi spoke while participating in a series of August meetings across Mbaitoli, Owerri North and Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Areas, where he commended Imo women for their resilience and contributions to the development of their communities, and donated a total of N8 million to support various initiatives and empower the women.

At Orodo Unity Hall in Mbaitoli Local Government Area, where he joined the women of Orodo for their August meeting, Dr Amadi praised the resilience and sacrifices of women in raising and educating their children, using his own mother as an example of the determination and struggles many women endure to give their children a better future.

Earlier, while introducing Dr Amadi to the women, Hon. Henry Onwukwe urged them to support and elect him as their Senator in the January 16, 2027 election, stressing the need for effective representation and a new direction for the people.

Hon. Onwukwe also spoke on the political history of the area and the need for greater inclusion and representation, particularly noting that Ngor Okpala had yet to produce a leader who had occupied the senatorial position.

Addressing the women, Dr Amadi said the hardship being experienced by many families was largely a consequence of ineffective governance, observing that citizens were increasingly forced to provide for themselves what government ought to provide.

He questioned the situation where communities were not only financing their own development projects but were also increasingly responsible for providing their own security.

“What then is the government doing for the people?” he asked, while expressing concern that many leaders in positions of authority had lost the human conscience and sympathy required to genuinely respond to the suffering of the people.

According to him, rather than deploying public resources towards meaningful development, successive leaders had allowed corruption and mismanagement to undermine the welfare of ordinary citizens.

Dr Amadi said the Action Peoples Party was offering Nigerians and Imolites a different political direction, insisting that the party's objective was to bring about meaningful change through people-oriented governance and effective representation.

He called on the women to support the movement for change, assuring them that their support would strengthen the effort to build a government that responds to the needs and aspirations of the people.

In support of the women's development efforts, Dr Amadi donated N3 million towards their ICT project and an additional N2 million to be shared equally among the women.

The August Meeting train later moved to L. A Primary School, Amakohia, Owerri North Local Government Area, where Dr Amadi joined the women of Nzuko Ndom Amakohia for their August meeting.

Speaking to the women, he observed that across the different August meetings he had attended during the season, women had demonstrated remarkable commitment to community development by mobilising their resources and contributing towards projects aimed at improving the welfare of their communities.

He expressed concern that many of the projects being undertaken by the women were projects that, in a properly functioning society, should ordinarily be undertaken by government.

Despite the challenge, Dr Amadi commended the women for refusing to wait helplessly for government intervention and for taking responsibility for the development of their communities.

In support of their association, he donated N2 million to the women of Nzuko Ndom Amakohia.

At Umuevu Okirika-Nweke in Ahiazu Mbaise, Dr Amadi also joined the women during their August meeting, where he spoke on the importance of making responsible choices in elections.

He cautioned the women against selling their votes, stressing that the consequences of electoral decisions extend far beyond election day and can determine the quality of governance citizens experience for another four years.

According to him, Nigeria's current situation has become one where the choices citizens make at the ballot box could determine whether the country makes progress or continues along the path of hardship and poor governance.

He warned that selling votes and electing incompetent leaders would only perpetuate the people's suffering by bringing another four years of bad governance.

Dr Amadi urged the women to recognise the power of their votes and use them to demand accountability, competence and genuine representation from those seeking their mandate.

He subsequently donated N1 million to the women of the Umuevu Okirika-Nweke community in support of their association.

The engagements further underscored the central role being played by Imo women in sustaining families and driving development at the grassroots, even in the face of limited government support.

For Dr Amadi, the message from the August meetings has remained consistent: communities should not have to carry the entire burden of development while those entrusted with public resources fail to deliver the basic responsibilities of government. His interventions, he said, are intended not only to provide immediate support but also to encourage communities and citizens to demand a better standard of leadership and representation.