Mr Augustine Nwazunku
2023: Varsity lecturer, Nwazunku enters Ebonyi governorship race
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Former Executive Secretary, Ebonyi State Agency for Control of AIDs, (EBOSACA), Mr Augustine Nwazunku, has indicated interest to contest for the Governorship seat of Ebonyi State, come 2023.
Mr Nwazunku, a retired civil servant in Ebonyi State, said he would be contesting on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), come 2023.
He is currently a lecturer at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe Unversity, Awka.
He spoke to Journalists on his ambition at the weekend in Abakaliki.
Nwazunku said he had observed a lot of unattended areas, unfinished businesses and unharnessed potentials in the State by successive governments, hence, his interest to take the state to its desired destination.
He said he had garnered enough experiences to lead the State as a Governor to its prosperity.
Nwazunku said: “Having observed a lot of unattended areas, unfinished businesses, unharnessed potentials in the State, I consulted the God of my realization, having used the hands of my fellow man then to support me, I now ask Him, ‘choose my own hand as the hand you will use to nurture other Ebonyians and all residents of Ebonyi State’.
“And based on that, I decided to ask my fellow human beings to allow me to apply to be assessed and be admitted or engaged as the Chief Servant of Ebonyi State in the position and office of the Governor of the State come 2023.
“So, based on that and realizing that there is no masquerade that decorates itself, and realizing that the office of the Governor which is the pivotal platform for service for the people of Ebonyi State, is owned by Ebonyi people and not my private property; therefore, having consulted the God of my realization, I have to inform those who are the owners of the position and the portfolio, that’s the masses.
“Currently, in Nigeria, we don’t have independent candidacy; So with that, I have identified myself with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which has been my party for ages, as a platform, and having notified them essentially, I join my Party to ask the masses that I have applied to be assessed and to be granted the opportunity to serve as the Governor of the State, come 2023.
On whether the PDP would defeat the APC in Ebonyi State, come 2023, Nwazunku said: “On behalf of myself and my party, let me tell you that Ebonyi State is already being ruled on the PDP’s mandate. So the power has never shifted from the PDP and I can assure you that the PDP is ever ready to sustain the mandate.
“We are not going to wrestle it, it’s the PDP’s mandate that’s ruling the State. So, there is nothing to wrestle.”
