Former Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara
2023: Wabara advises Ikpeazu to ensure emergence of successor through equity
[From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia]
Former Senate President, Senator Adolphus Wabara, has advised Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, to ensure that his successor emerges in 2023 on the basis of equity.
Wabara maintained that as a child of equity, Ikpeazu should grow to become the father of equity in the state by handing over the governorship position in line with equity.
Wabara who is the Pro-Chancellor of Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU), gave the advice while interacting with newsmen in Aba.
Speaking against the backdrop of controversies raging in the state over which zone should produce the next governor in 2023, he insisted that since Ikpeazu was a product of equity, he must not allow himself to be misled by people propounding “conspiracy theories” as far as the 2023 governorship contest was concerned.
“If Ikpeazu’s predecessor didn’t believe in equity, there is no way we, the Ukwa/Ngwa people, would have smelt that seat. If Senator Theodore Orji had not pronounced that he was going to hand over to Abia South, I don’t think Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu would have been Governor.
“The Governor knows my stand. He should follow the footsteps of his predecessor. Ikpeazu should be a child of equity and do the needful,” Wabara said.
“My advice is that he should be in charge of equity and do things right and there would be peace. And I know he won’t be misled. I don’t want to go into the nitty-gritty of the conspiracy theories here and there. All these conspiracies will not help; Abia State will outlive all of us. Let him guide us, the Governor has nothing to fear. By next year or 2023, let him grow from child of equity to father of equity,” he added.
Wabara hailed Ikpeazu’s performance, describing it as wonderful, and ascribing the inflow of investments into the state to the infrastructural turnaround and peace being experienced in the State.
He commended Ikpeazu for his support to ABSU, stressing that the Governor’s greatest legacy was in the area of education as the bedrock of development.
“The most important legacy Governor Ikpeazu would leave in Abia is in the area of education. The Governor knows that education is the bedrock of development; that’s why most of us follow his footsteps.
“I commended the Governor for supporting ABSU and giving education its pride of place in the state, knowing the fact that education remains the bedrock of development.”
