All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate in Abia State, Barr Gloria Akara has said the state deserves much more than it has ever got being an oil producing state and industrial hub of Africa.
Akara stated this after the governorship candidate, High Chief Ikechi Emenike officially unveiled her at the party’s stakeholders meeting yesterday in Item, Bende local government area of the state.
The legal practitioner of over 40-years said Emenike’s emergence is well timed for the liberation, transformation, credible and tangible change on several fronts from education, infrastructure, health, tourism, economy and security.
“His hand of fellowship extended to Ukwa to produce a deputy governor for the first time ever in Abia State is a gesture that those of us from Ukwa cannot thank him enough for,” said the member of God’s Heritage Ministry Inc.
“I accept this rare offer and opportunity and hereby pledge to work with him and to support this noble and most laudable cause wholeheartedly. May the Lord grant success to this vision and mandate.”
Presenting her earlier, Emenike described her as lady of faith, true mother, honest, dedicated and well educated, saying since the creation of the state no woman has ever been offered such opportunity.
“I am from Abia Central. We narrowed down the choice for the office on Ukwa axis of the South to give the people of the oil-bearing communities a sense of belonging,” according to him.
He argued that content for content, he and the deputy governorship candidate present the best pedigree in education, intergrity, focus, intention, and commitment to rescue and develop the state.
The development economist noted that when their manifesto which he said is second to none will be released, the people will see how their administration will begin the drive to develop the state from day one.
Explaining that the state will be worse off if the people make the wrong choice in 2023, he appealed to them to consider them capable of addressing the “rot the state has been in the hands of the Peoples Democratic Party since 1999.”
