Ruth Oginyi
An erstwhile Senator in Ebonyi State, Senator Julius Ucha, Wednesday declared his intention to contest the governorship position of the state under the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2023.
Ucha is the first person to officially announced his interest to replace the incumbent governor of the state, David Umahi.
Ucha had contested the governorship position in 2007 and 2011 with the former state governor Martin Elechi but lost under the defunct ANPP.
Ucha, a former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, made the declaration when he paid a consultation visit to the State Working Committee of the APC in Abakaliki.
“I am here to inform the party leadership of my intention to run for the governorship of Ebonyi state, come 2023. It is over a month now that the political space was thrown open by our leader and we are also aware that the zoning arrangement is that the governorship position with either go to Ebonyi Central or North”.
“We are also aware that the zoning committee has been graciously put in place to the micro zoning of where the governorship will go to. I am a man that complies with the rules, Ucha added.
The two-term Senator said if elected, he will consolidate the human development projects of governor Umahi through Agriculture quality education among others.
“One thing I have told myself is that I am not a desperate person. I have never been desperate. Nothing bothers me. My Hypertension is 110/70. We have to work hard and not take anything for granted”.
“I have told myself that I have a duty if by the Special Grace of God and elected the Governor of Ebonyi State; to maintain the standard of infrastructural development already put in place by the present administration; to sustain the gain and legacies which Governor Umahi already put in place and to secure the future of the people of Ebonyi state”.
“While maintaining the standard and sustaining the gains; in securing the future, the governor has laid the foundation for human resource development and empowerment. I will consolidate the human resource development and empowerment through education, agriculture, through the sustenance of the state of the art health facility and industrialization”, Ucha promised.
The Governorship aspirant further urged the APC leadership in the state to open the space in the local areas so that aspirants can start to reach out to people and make the party vibrant in all the nooks and crannies of the State.
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