Ruth Oginyi
An erstwhile Secretary to Ebonyi State Government, Professor Benard Odoh, former Senator and former Commissioner in the state, Sen. Emanuel Onwe, and former Leader of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Joseph Nwobashi, Thursday declared for the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA).
They made the declaration in Abakaliki during a media chat.
Prof. Odoh, sen. Onwe and Mr. Nwobashi were all in the government of Governor David Umahi as SSG, Commissioner for information, and the house of Assembly Leader.
But they have all resigned from their previous positions in Umahi’s government.
Prof Odoh declared for the governorship position in the 2023 general election, Emmanuel Onwe will contest the Ebonyi Central Senatorial election in elections.
According to him, the 2023 general election will be unique voters should get their voters card and be ready to cast their votes for any candidate of their choice.
“Stand up to be counted. Take advantage of the new electoral act recently passed into law and the historic Anambra election that produced Professor Chukwuma Soludo as a motivation to alter the cause of history”, he said.
On his plan to reduce poverty in the state, the governorship hopeful explained that the establishment of medium-scale mass industrialization was the fastest route to end poverty in the State and promised to establish them if elected.
“The express route to dealing with poverty and unemployment is heart and soul commitment to a small-scale and medium-scale mass industrialization, ranging from scaled agricultural value-chain, complex manufacturing, converting raw natural resources to finished products (exploiting, for example, our abundance of sharp sand along the Afikpo-Ikwo-Izzi Cross River belt to set up glass manufacturing industries) to the revival of our existing but abandoned industries in the poultry, cement and PVC sectors.
“Our women will be empowered. They will cease to be mere spectators in the polity but, equal participants in the course of governance and every decision-making intended to move Ebonyi forward.
“Solving the security challenges we face here at home, with a committed and advanced partnership with our existing conventional security apparatus in the State, will be our absolute priority. The less I say now the better because we already have a comprehensively articulated blueprint of action in this regard.
He regretted the scarcity of water in the state and said he will centralized reticulation of water in the state to ease the suffering of the poor masses.
Senator Emmanuel Onwe in his submission said that between now and the end of July 2023, APGA will be the most populated political party in Ebonyi state and urged their supporters to remain steadfast with the party.
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