Imo PDP flays Uzodimma over failure to secure promised foreign jobs for youths 

The Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded a public apology from the Governor, Hope Uzodimma, for his inability to fulfil his promise of securing jobs and sending 4,000 Imo youths abroad.

The governor had shortly before his re-election last year, at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Wetheral Road, Owerri, while addressing youths who had undergone Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training, promised to secure jobs for about 4,000 youths overseas via European Union (EU) and Canadian based firms.

More than one year after, the opposition party, yesterday, via a statement issued by the Publicity Secretary, Lancelot Obiaku, demanded a public apology from the governor.

The statement said: “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State demands that Governor Hope Uzodimma tenders a public apology to the citizens of the state, especially the teeming youths, over his empty promise to secure jobs for 4,000 of them, which has proven to be a monumental mockery of their hopelessness under his administration.

“When the governor declared, in September 2023, that he had negotiated with what he called,

“European Union companies and Canadian companies” to employ 4,000 Imo youths by December 2023, right away, we doubted his ability to get that over the line. We knew it was an empty campaign promise because his resume does not show that he possesses the willpower and integrity to execute such a project. 16 months later, it is clear to even the blind that the governor was only playing games.”