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Amb. Ogbuewu kicks off
guber campaign in Ebonyi
Newsdiaryonline Sun Feb
6,2011
Ambassador Ogbuewu kicks off guber campaign
Abakaliki,
Ebonyi State capital was
turned to a carnival ground at the weekend as leaders and
supporters of the
All Progressives Grand Alliance
(APGA) from all over the country stormed the state to witness
the formal flag off of campaigns of former Minister of Culture
and Tourism, Ambassador Frank Ogbuewu for the governorship race
of the state in April
general elections.
Amb. Ogbuewu
flags off guber campaign in Ebonyi
Newsdiaryonline Sun Feb
6,2011
The National Chairman of the party, Sir Victor
Umeh, a
member of the Board of Trustees and former
Minister of Health Dr. Tim Menakaya who represented the leader
and chairman of the party’s
Board of Trustees, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu,
National Secretary of the party Alhaji Sani Shinkafi,
governorship candidates of the party in Abia and Imo states,
Reagan Ufomba and Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha as well as other
members of the party’s national and state working committees
were among the leaders who led other party faithful across the
country to stage a carnival-like road show along major streets
of Abakaliki before settling down at Peoples Club Field, venue
of the event.
The APGA governorship candidate in Ebonyi and
former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Greece, Ogbuewu in his manifesto
entitled “My
Social Contract with
Ebonyi People” promised to make the state a tourism destination
of Nigeria and to wipe unemployment in the state within two
years in office as well as to tackle general infrastructural
decay in the state.
Ogbuewu re-affirmed his pledge to serve only
one term of four years in office to enable other senatorial
zones to produce the governor of the state as according to him,
he was only coming to rescue the ship of the state which he said
is currently floundering in stormy economic and socio-political
waters under the leadership of his brother and incumbent
Governor, Chief
Martin Elechi of the
Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), also from the Central Senatorial zone as himself.
“My fellow Ebonyians, today marks the
beginning of the end of your sufferings, since the past four
years Ebonyi people have witnessed a total reverse of
developmental process that was in place before the inception of
the Administration. The government of Peoples Democratic Party
in Ebonyi
State has failed. Not only that, it has
underdeveloped all the sectors of the State’s wellbeing; be it
health, education, public utilities, infrastructure, agriculture
and tourism etc.”
The guber candidate promised that APGA-led
government ion the state would rejuvenate the health and
education sectors by ensuring that the state teaching hospital
and general hospitals in the 13 local government areas are
reconstructed and restored to their former glory while Primary
Health Centres will be established in the rural communities and
the educational system totally overhauled to restore it as the
bedrock of any society and springboard for any development.
The National Chairman of the party, Sir,
Victor Ume who spoke in Igbo language, stated that it was time
for Ebonyi people to move forward by electing a young, dynamic
and resourceful person like Ogbuewu, noting, “Ebonyi should know
that the world is moving forward, we want modern not ancient
administrators”.
Ume urged the people of Ebonyi state to vote
APGA en mass on the day of the elections and to stand to make
sure that their votes were counted, saying that he has
confidence in the assurances given by the National Chairman of
Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega that 2011
general
election would be free and fair and that every
vote will count.
A senatorial candidate of the party in Ebonyi
state, Dr. Emmanuel Onwe stated that APGA represents the
aspirations and dreams of the Igbo and boasted that the next
administration in Ebonyi state would be APGA’s.
APGA guber candidate in Imo, Okorocha who
lamented the deplorable state of infrastructure especially roads
leading to and within Ebonyi state, announced that APGA
government in the five states of the South East geo-political
zone would declare a free and compulsory primary and secondary
education in the zone, even as he stated that Ogbuewu was an
honest and capable person to be entrusted with the management of
resources of Ebonyi state. Ends
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