Presidential Candidate of the
Labour Party (LP), says, Mr Peter Obi, the party will build an egalitarian,
free and prosperous Nigeria if elected in 2023.
Obi disclosed this on
Friday in Abakaliki, while speaking at an event organised in his honour by the
Ebonyi chapter of the Civil Society Action Group (CSAG).
Obi who was represented
by Sen. Azu Agboti, his Presidential Campaign Coordinator in Ebonyi, urged the
people not to lose hope in the Nigerian project saying, ‘there is light at the
end of the tunnel.”
He said the Labour
Party’s campaign would be issue-based and anchored on addressing social,
economic and security issues affecting the people, especially the ordinary
Nigerians.
The LP candidate who was
endorsed and adopted by the group as their preferred presidential candidate in
the 2023 election, thanked the group for endorsing him and other candidates of
his party in the state.
“Our campaigns will be issue-based,
x-raying our programmes and the agenda we have to further launch Nigeria into
the path of progress; prosperity and egalitarianism,” Obi said.
The LP presidential
hopeful declared support for Chief Edward Nkwegu, the LP governorship candidate
in Ebonyi, saying the endorsement was based on the candidate’s character,
competence, capacity and antecedents in human management and wealth creation as
an industrialist.
Meanwhile, Nkwegu, the
governorship hopeful, said his agenda would guarantee economic transformation
in Ebonyi, with bold enablers through rapid industrialisation of the state.
“I’m going to create
13,000 micro small and medium enterprises in two years in Ebonyi, and that will
give us indirect employment of about 250, 000 persons in our state,” Nkwegu
said.
He expressed confidence
that with the industrialisation of the state, the problems of unemployment in
Ebonyi would be solved.
He pledged to introduce
mechanised agriculture to encourage youths and women to get involved, stressing
the need to improve agriculture by introducing modern techniques.
He added: “We will ensure
infrastructural enhancement, provision of basic amenities to our people both in
the urban and rural communities, first will be reticulation of pipe borne water
across our state,” he added.
He said that his
administration would embark on mineral exploration and development in Ebonyi to
expand the revenue base and economy of the state.
He stated:“There will be
jobs, jobs and jobs. There will be all-inclusive and sustainable wealth
creation.
“These are things that
will happen in our economic transformation agenda. In the civic programme, we
are going to look at education.
” In the education
sector, there will be access to infrastructure, curriculum reformation and
relevance in such a way that what our people studying in our schools shall be
relevant in contemporary society.
“And under my watch, If I
emerge Ebonyi governor in 2023, there will be quality health care and delivery,
and also the empowerment of the youth, women and vulnerable people.”
Meanwhile, members of the
organisation cutting across the 13 Local Government Areas and 171 wards of the
state said their decision to endorse Obi, and Nkwegu was divinely inspired.
Rev. Peter Ezeudo, state
coordinator of the group declared the determination of its members to canvass
for votes to ensure victory of the LP Presidential candidate and the party’s
gubernatorial candidate in Ebonyi. (NAN)
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