It borders on intellectual dishonesty and sheer absurdity for certain individuals to interrogate the fiscal prudence and capital expenditures of the Governor Umo Eno-led administration, while simultaneously conceding the democratic truism that elected officeholders owe an inalienable duty of accountability to the electorate.
Through the very essence of representative governance, the sovereign people who conferred the mandate possess the unassailable right to demand transparency, probity, and justification for every public outlay.
What, however, degenerates into perfidy and political mischief is the deliberate orchestration of calumny under the guise of interrogation.
When the scale, quality, and transformative impact of infrastructural and human capital projects embarked upon by this administration are manifest and verifiable, yet critics abandon objective scrutiny for acrimonious assaults, innuendo, and character assassination, it ceases to be civic engagement. It becomes an exercise in partisan acrimony and visceral bitterness masquerading as accountability.
A responsible democracy thrives not on destructive vilification, but on constructive engagement anchored in facts. The people deserve explanations, not propaganda; answers, not abuse.
