Constituents lead fight against Reps member Anayo Onwuegbu over “Utara” machine empowerment

House of Representatives member Anayo Onwuegbu is presently on the lips of his constituents – for bad.

In their thousands, angry and disillusioned voters have taken over all media platforms in the zone, overwhelming them with dirty invectives, questions and demands.

Onwuegbu, who represents Aninri/Awgu/Oji-River constituency in Enugu State, shared items this morning. Included in the gifts are motorcycles, knapsack sprayers, grinding machines and fufu (utara) pounding machines.

Whoever that inspired the idea obviously didn’t know anything about timing; nor did he understands the priorities of the people. As soon as the news about the “empowerment programme” broke, the constituents united in protests.

Apart from giving to his people what they may not necessarily need, the sharing was bias and ashamedly selective.

Also, the “empowerment” has a carelessly-hidden political undertone. Last month, the federal lawmakers vowed to “mobilise grassroots support for [Tinubu’s] second term”. Unfortunately, however, Anayo Onwuegbu lacks the kind of influence he is hoping to exert few months before the campaigns for 2027 elections kickstart. He is not in touch with the grassroots as several surveys has shown, and he is not in touch with the socioeconomic realities inside his constituency.

“Anayo Onwuegbu – do we know him? Yes, we know his name. But do we know him, I ask?” one furious constituent, Onyeka Igwe, spoke with Info Wars.

He lost abysmally to Labour Party’s Chijioke Okereke in the 2023 election. But the People’s Democratic Party – seeing the need to fight LP serious incursions in Enugu – went to court, wrenched the mandate from LP and placed it on Onwuegbu’s waiting hands.

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The ongoing backlashes would not just serve as a slap, but they also highlighted Onwuegbu’s emptiness and shown that he is a painful liability inside the circles of power brokers in the state.

His major opponents are only hoping that the protests reach ears of Governor Peter Mbah.