The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Ebonyi State, Prof Bernard Odoh, yesterday expressed concern over the persisting communal clashes in the state, describing it as embarrassing.
Prof Odoh vowed to ensure that the incessant communal clashes that have led to the death and displacement of many citizens of the state especially women, girls and the aged are stopped.
Odoh who made the declaration in his independence message to the people of the state vowed to also protect and defend the interest of non-indigenes if given the mandate in the 2023 governorship election.
He stated that as a people, the experiences, commitments and impact of the state’s past and present leaders had been commendably great despite the many gaps in some key sectors of the economy.
The former secretary to the state government said it was undeniable that the state had made appreciable progress beginning from the two past military administrations down to the democratically elected administrations.
He pointed out that before now, the state was once rated as dusty, rustic, guinea-worm-infested with predominantly subsistence agrarian farmers with little or no educational advantage but that there’s no doubt that Ebonyi under the past five successive administrations had reasonably advanced educationally, socially, infrastructurally and otherwise.
“However, it is worthy to note that our state can do much better than its current realities particularly in the areas of human capital development, workers’ welfare, poverty reduction, conducive business climate, quality healthcare, quality education, and industrialisation. Our commitment to exploit our comparative advantage in the areas of commercialisation of our agriculture and rich mineral potentials as a state remains firm,” he said.
