ENUGU—Special Adviser to the Deputy Senate President on Projects, Mr. Bethel Onyenyiri, yesterday, raised an alarm over what he described as plans by Enugu State Government and its agents to sabotage federal projects attracted by Senator Ike Ekweremadu to his Enugu West senatorial zone.

Onyenyiri, who was a former Commissioner in the state, said in a press statement that Governor Sullivan Chime allegedly held a “clandestine meeting” with some of his functionaries to initiate a campaign aimed at discrediting Senator Ekweremadu in order to sabotage and possibly destroy the numerous projects attracted by him to his constituency.

However, efforts to speak with the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Chuks Ugwoke and the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Chukwudi Achife, on the allegation proved abortive as they did not pick their calls.

Ekweremadu had last week announced that he had so far attracted over 140 projects to the five local governments in Enugu West senatorial zone and went ahead to constitute project monitoring committees which membership was drawn from all the political wards in the zone.

The press statement by Onyenyiri, who is the Chairman of the Project Monitoring Committee, copy of which was made available to Vanguard in Enugu yesterday, read:  “My attention has been drawn to the plans by the governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime, to disrupt/destroy Federal Government projects attracted to the state, particularly the Enugu West senatorial district by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.”