High Chief Ikechi Emenike, APC Governorship Candidate, Abia State
Abia APC: Emenike assembles 1,740 ‘ambassadors’ as Campaign Council members
From Boniface Okoro, Umuahia
In his determination to become the next governor of Abia State, in order to rescue and develop the state, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, High Chief Ikechi, has assembled 1, 740 APC ambassadors as member of his campaign council to spearhead his governorship campaigns in the 2023 general election.
Chief Emenike while inaugurating the Campaign Council, reiterated his mission to liberate the state from the hands of bad leaders and enjoined the Council to work as a united family to make realization of his ambition possible and easy.
The event was conducted at the Azikiwe state party office in Umuahia with thousands of party faithful who turned up for the exercise generating an atmosphere of a campaign rally as they filled the secretariat and spilled over to adjoining streets.
Emenike noted, during the inauguration that extricating Abia from the ruling People Peoples democratic Party (PDP) which has run the state for over two decades would not be a tea party since the PDP, in the course of administering the state has entrenched their “vicious roots across the state” and charged them to work extremely hard to be able to achieve the goal for which they were being inaugurated.
However, he vowed to uproot the party that has held Abia down so that the mission of developing Abia could begin in earnest in 2023.
The APC governorship hopeful described members of the Campaign Council as the “ambassadors of APC in all the polling units of Abia” and charged them to double and redouble their efforts to achieve a landslide victory for the opposition party, come 2023.
“We must work as one to achieve victory,” he said, adding, “if 1,740 people join their hands together to work, the job of liberating Abia will be done.”
“Let the work begin. Our mission, aspiration is for the development of Abia (and) God will help us lift Abia up. What we’re doing is a divine mission,” Chief Emenike said.
Abia APC’s Deputy Governorship Candidate, Rev Gloria Akara, also charged members of the Campaign Council and all party faithful to remain steadfast and dedicate their energy, time and resources to drive “the wheel of progress,” stressing the mission to rescue and develop Abia was unstoppable.
“We are ready. The rescue and develop Abia (RADA) movement is not designed to stop. We’re going to continue until victory is assured,” she declared.
Party chieftains who spoke at the event pledged their full support to the Abia APC governorship candidate to make the party take over the control of Abia, saying that God’s Own State has been left in the hands of bad managers for too long.
The former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Nwadiala Emeka Wogu, said that among all the governorship candidates presented by all the 18 contending parties, “Emenike is the only person who can make a change in Abia.”
Former Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Martins Azubuike, called on all aggrieved party members to sheathe their swords and support High Chief Emenike to save Abia from the downward trend of retrogression.
Earlier the State Chairman of Abia APC, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu, explained that members of the Campaign Council were carefully selected and trusted “worthwhile soldiers” of the party who would lead the charge in all nooks and cranny of Abia. “We are very determined to rescue and develop Abia,” Ononogbu said.
Among those who witnessed the inauguration ceremony were serving and former Ministers, party candidates, six retired generals, including three former General Officers Commanding(GOCs), a former Commandant the Nigeria Army School of Infantry, Jaji and a former Director of Military Intelligence.
