By Azeez Olorunlomeru
Political, traditional and religious leaders and other stakeholders converged on Premier Primary School, Ukpabi, to reaffirm their support and resolve to vote massively for Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi at the poll to represent Enugu North Senatorial District.
The people of Uzo-Uwani Council also pledged their support for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah; the party’s candidate for Igbo-Etiti/Uzo-Uwani Federal Constituency, Dr. Martins Oke; the candidate for Uzo-Uwani Constituency, Chukwuma Martins Ekwueme, among others, promising to deliver 99 per cent of the votes to the PDP at the forthcoming elections in the state.
They said that Ugwuanyi is the only leader, who has remembered the Uzo-Uwani Council in the scheme of things, bringing peace and development to the council after decades of neglect.
The people expressed gratitude to Governor Ugwuanyi for his dogged and fruitful struggles for Enugu State to enjoy oil-producing status, following the discovery and ratification of oil existence in the Uzo-Uwani Council.
They stressed that Uzo-Uwani people need Ugwuanyi in the Senate more than any other local council in Enugu North Senatorial District to enable them to fully harness the inherent benefits of their news status as oil-producing area.
Describing Ugwuanyi’s emergence as candidate to represent Enugu North Senatorial District in the National Assembly on the platform of the PDP is a fait accompli, the people stated that the governor’s movement to the National Assembly as a senator will bring enormous democratic dividends to their council in particular, and the district in general.
They declared that the smallest appreciation they would show to the governor is to deliver him at the poll.
In his speech, an elder statesman and party chieftain, Chief Maxi Ukuta, described Ugwuanyi as “a worthy son,” applauding him for carefully giving the people of Enugu State, Peter Mbah to succeed him as governor.
The elder statesman lauded the governor for the pressure and suffering he passed through to make Enugu an oil-producing state, stating that the governor, having done so, also established the State University of Medical and Applied Sciences (SUMAS) Igbo-Eno, thereby opening up the rural areas.
Source: The Guardian
