Anambra North Senator, Tony Nwoye, has said Peter Obi did not buy 400 vehicles for traditional rulers when he was governor of the state.
Tony Nwoye said Anambra State has 179 communities and each community has only one king.
Nwoye, a Labour Party chieftain, stated this on Wednesday while reacting to an accusation from controversial social media influencer, Reno Omokri.
The former governor of Anambra State, Obi, had on Wednesday, called on President Bola Tinubu to explain to Nigerians the details of ₦150 billion Presidential Jet he purchased amid hunger and economic hardship.
Reacting to Obi’s statement, Omokri argued that the Labour Party’s former presidential candidate lacked the moral ground to demand an explanation from Tinubu since he bought 400 SUVs for traditional rulers during his tenure as governor.
The Anambra North Senator, however, explained that the 400 vehicles Obi bought were not for traditional rulers in the state.
Nwoye said, “Anambra State doesn’t have 400 Igwes. What we have here in Anambra State is 179 communities and with each community having one Igwe. So the vehicles and buses bought at the time were not for Ndi Igwes. That is one.
The Innoson vehicles that were bought during the Peter Obi regime were also for security purposes. Every community in Anambra State got one vehicle. Peter Obi also trained Local vigilantes and the State Government was paying them monthly Salary.
“Then Urban Communities like Onitsha, Nnewi, Ekwulobia and Awka got almost 7 to 11 vehicles each.
“Also, those vehicles bought at that time, all secondary schools in Anambra State got one from Peter Obi government then. These are facts before Ndi Anambra.”
He decried that the allegation from Omokri was false and a misrepresentation of facts.
