Abia APC: Those working against me will fail – Emenike

BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia

The Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, High Chief Ikechi Emenike, has declared that those conspiring to stop his bid to become the next governor of the state were laboring in vain.

Chief Ikechi who made the declaration during a strategic meeting of the party leaders in his Umukabia Okpuala country home in Umuahia, assured that no one could truncate his dream, adding that he would soon inaugurate his about 700-member Campaign Council.

He said that the meeting involving party leaders and stakeholders from state and local governments, was convened for the purpose of fine-tuning the list of his Campaign Council to make it comprehensive and inclusive 

In a veiled reference to the plots of his detractors, Emenike told the gathering that

those conspiring to halt Abia APC’s 2023 liberation movement would fail, as they were labouring in vain. 

“The truth of the matter is that we are on solid ground. We are on the right path (hence) nobody should be bothered by the distractions,” the Abia APC governorship flag bearer said. 

He noted that the high pedestal on which the main opposition party has found itself was not attained overnight but a product of strategic planning in the course of years of “a torturous journey.”

The political strategist and Development Economist was upbeat that with the roll out of his campaign train at hand, his liberation message would permeate every nook and cranny of Abia.

He therefore urged the party leaders and stakeholders to sustain their winning mentality, adding that the liberation movement he is leading “is divinely ordained to set Abia on the path of genuine development.”

“God has watered the ground on which we have planted in Abia and now we are waiting for our harvest of victory coming up in 2023,” the grassroots mobiliser said.

Information filtering from those close to Chief Emenike has it that the Campaign Council would be composed of no fewer than 700 persons drawn from all the 184 wards in the state, with each of them bringing their diverse experiences to bear on the party’s 2023 campaigns.

The Deputy Governorship Candidate, Rev. Gloria Akara, in her remarks, encouraged Abia APC leaders and members to imbibe Emenike’s passion and commitment in his avowed mission to rescue and develop Abia. 

“High Chief Emenike really wants to change the narrative in Abia. I see victory; I see victory ahead,” she declared, adding that “this is our season to run with him” and make Abia better.

The National Welfare Secretary of APC, Hon Friday Nwosu, said that the maladministration of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party has plunged the state into despondency and Abia people were  now looking up to APC to save the situation.

Nwosu noted that Chief Emenike was the only governorship candidate in the 2023 race who is not in any way linked to those plundering Abia, adding that soon, those ravaging the state would be expelled from Government House.

He commended Emenike for having “done so much” to build Abia APC and place it in a vantage position to dislodge the ruling party, saying, “we have victory in our hands; God will crown our efforts.”

Chairman of Abia APC, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu, charged party leaders and stakeholders to demonstrate their capacity and commitment to the party’s 2023 project aimed at wresting Abia from the vicious grip of incompetent leaders.

“We must work and work harder; we must make sacrifices as much as needed to achieve our collective goal,” he said.