Sam Amadi: Untold Stories Of A Sanctimonious Demagogue

By: Ambrose Nwaogwugwu, April 07, 2024.

Sam Amadi is a walking example of a scintillating demagoguery, but give it to him; how he has managed to portray a kind of reputation, of him to be a man of integrity deserves a special mention at the Harved.

Because, Sam Amadi featured prominently in the whole value chain of the storm of few rogues who packaged darkness to Nigeria in the name of privatisation — electricity generation and distribution and when the Aba Power Project under the Geometric came on board, Sam Amadi with his NERC and other enemies of the country fought blood and water to kill the only single highest investment in the whole of Igbo land in morden history.

But because of the kind of lies he has continued to portray himself, of farse integrity, no serious interrogation has been deployed to shine into the alleged arduous activities with BPE which sought to quench the only light to come from east of the Niger.

Because Nigeria is the way it is; where failed persons who have had the privileges of serving in public offices in the past, somehow, still find a way to regurgitate their voices and even sell themselves off as some sanctimonious entities.

That is the untold stories of Mr. Sam Amadi.

If we were in any serious country where citizens are enlightened enough to hold to account past public officials, where will the likes of Sam Amadi find their voices again?

Sam Amadi is a bundle of contradiction to integrity, he so much tout about.

As a lecturer of law, of the now infamous law faculty of Baze University, Abuja — Sam Amadi hold this ubiquitous malignant reputation where almost all his students; who are of course money bags who passed thru his school always come out with first class results.

“I don’t know why, but his Faculty, Law, at the Baze University, holds a huge attraction for Nigerian Politicians. It is where a good number of them go to read Law. Senator Dino Melaye. Senator Ifeanyi Uba.” wrote the source magazine some time ago.

Some of those who would graduate from his law classes are very busy captains of industries or busy bank executives or policitians but somehow, they always almost every time graduate with first class!

Please don’t get Nwaogwugwu wrong; people are not pointedly saying their results were not meritorious enough but it is becoming quite disturbing that his law faculty is now making a kind of reputation where busy wealthy professionals go and bag first class for tedious law courses.

Curiously, almost none of those first class graduates from the law faculty of Sam Amadi practice law….

And for this man, he would always be in the rooftops crying hoax trying to paint his reputation with some sort of credibility whereas in actuality and in practice, he stinks more than those he tries casting aspersions to.

A few days ago, in his usual holier than thou dispositions, Sam Amadi wrote on: Owerri: A Preliminary Report.

In his haste to appropriate a white snowish reputations as clementine integrity, he falsely asserted that “Owerri does not look like a well- managed place. The people are doing well for themselves. But the quality of governance is poor and almost non-existent.”

That is one thing with demagogues, they attach a false sense of importance to themselves, whether they are misrepresenting facts or standing facts on their head.

In false sense estimation of Sam Amadi, Owerri looks like a place where governance is non existent to him alone but Mr. Sam Amadi passed thru the newly inaugurated road from Imo airport as I guess he must have flown from Abuja to Imo State.

No genuine person with good sense of probity would fly into the state without meeting that state of art reconstructed road, well paved with solar powered street lights and from the airport junction down to Owerri — which is the Aba Owerri road received the baptism of construction of the #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma.

From the Aba road down to new Owerri where Mr. Sam Amadi must have passed thru on his way to Imo concord hotel, I guess he followed thru the newly reconstructed Akachi road with state of the art double drainages lighted up with solar powered street lights and because he must have followed the Emmanuel College road connecting the inland road which leads to the concord hotel, I will be most sure that Sam Amadi will pass thru all these roads.

Just for stepping into Imo State from Abuja via the Sam Mbakwe International Cargoe Airport, I am 100% sure that Sam Amadi must pass thru five different road projects started and fully completed by the government of Imo State under the sterling leadership of the #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma.

If Sam Amadi did not fly he will then be coming in from Okigwe to Owerri where he will be greeted with a well reconstructed road from Okigwe down to Owerri with well paved drainages and solar powered street lights.

If by chance he followed from Anambra into Orlu, he will be welcomed to Imo with the ever scintillating Orlu Owerri road fully reconstructed, dual carriage with well paved drainage system and solar powered street lights.

The story on total reconstruction is the same with Orlu-Owerri road, Okigwe-Owerri road, Onitsha Mgbidi road failed portion which is now completed and Owerri-Mbaise-Umuahia road (which is over 70% completed).

Not forgetting the over 50 different ring roads like Toronto-Safety road, Dick Tiger road, Chukwuma Nwoha road, Toronto To Umunaho road, Ph road, world bank road…. To mention but a few few.

Before 2020 when there was no Hope, all these roads I listed above were thoroughly broken apart and impassable.

This above is on road infrastructure, let’s move to other spheres of economic development.

We head to the health sector; the government of the #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma has restored quality health care system to the people of Imo State where affordable and free health care services are rendered to the generality of the masses for free.

During the Covid-19 public emergency, Imo State was among the states in the country with the least affected people and death rates. Sam Amadi should fact check me.

Thru Imo State health insurance agency, the government has enrolled over 100,000 citizens into the state insurance scheme where beneficiaries receive free and quality health care services.

In the last 11 months, the #PeoplesGovernor of Imo State His Excellency Senator Hope Uzodimma has thru the Imo State Health Insurance Agency under the leadership of Dr. Uche Ewelike as Executive Secretary of the agency given free medical care services to Imolites where over 1,200 child births have been recorded for FREE without the delivered mothers paying a dime!

Both deliveries were both thru C-Sections and normal deliveries without the intending mothers parting with a kobo… From the attenental up till delivery.

Total Hospital Visits = 213, 712.

Total Maleria Treated ===143,852

Total Normal Delivery=== 1,075.

Total Atenatal Care ===17,399.

Total Gastroenteritis Treated ===6,766.

Total Hypertension Managed ===56, 239.

Total Referrals/Surgeries (Mainly CS Deliveries) ===639

Total Respiratory Tract Infection Treated ===37,574.

Total Diabetes Managed ===25, 466.

Total deaths ===17.

These records are verifiable and Mr. Sam Amadi can fact check Nwaogwugwu.

This is sound and practicable health reforms of the #PeoplesGovernor’s #RenewedImo vision in action.

On youth empowerment with tangible indices, Imo State has been the best as over 20,000 youths have been fully trained in digital skills and equipped to gadgets to start up life changing careers as digital tech nomads thru the Imo Skill Up exercise.

Thousands of youths who were not only equipped with skills alone but equipments and gadgets to pilot their trades in the tech industry are working both in the country and abroad remotely from home.

On worker’s welfares; Imo State is one of the first states in the whole of the federation who are paying workers ₦40,000 as minimum wage even when so other states are still foot dragging on ₦35,000.

Because the #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma does not like priding payment of salaries and pensions as achievements, the regular and up date payment of both salaries and pensions have been regular with no single interruption.

We are the only state in the entire federation where the state workers for more than 3 years running are receiving bonuses at the end of the year with the payment of the 13th month salary. The workers for the 3rd consecutive years received 100% of their salary as bonus and 13th month salary.

Imo State workers since 2020 have never spent a dime from their salary as transportation money because the #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma provided a free transportation service to all Imo State workers.

This free bus service take workers to their work place in the morning and at the close of work each day, they take them back to their homes without the workers paying shishi.

I want Mr. Sam Amadi to fact check and contradict me.

This has been on since the last four years and still running.

First of its kind; started long before the fuel subsidy removal when other states and the federal government started talking about providing free transportation scheme to the workers in the bid to ameliorate effects of the subsidy removal…. But the the governor you have chosen to disparage unjustifiably was visionary enough to get this started some three years ago, and after four years now, still running smoothly.

On education; Imo State for the time in about ten years have never graduated eligible students from the medical college. The #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma stepped in and reformed the education sector which saw Imo State graduating medical students first in over ten years and since then, over 3 different batches have been graduated and will continue to graduate as at when due, all thanks to the reforms carried out by the #PeoplesGovernor on the education sector.

Due to the deliberate investment in education, Imo State from statistics from various sources ranging from statsense, UNDP, national bureau of statistics among others recently published very positive reviews and results showing the investment which the 3R government of Governor Uzodimma put in over 4 years ago are yielding positive fruits.

On the security: this is like an open secret, that many enemies of Imo State forged to dismember the state and render it ungovernable but trust the very resilient nature of our God sent governor — they met their match.

They were not only defeated but were thoroughly beaten to their own game.

People like Sam Amadi, like ndi amuma Baal, they prophecied doom and gloom and pontificated how the election was not going to hold; at the end of the day, election in our dear state did not only hold very peacefully but was the freest, safest and fairest amongst the other two that took place at the time as ours was the place with least security concerns.

Today, Imo is liberated and we are very happy about it, grateful to God who safe guarded us and eternally thankful to the #PeoplesGovernor Hope Uzodimma who weathered the whole storm and alightted us safely.

If not for spirit of nshiko mentality, why would a poor performer like Sam Amadi describe such a government of a place with non existent governance?