My appointment as State APC Presidential Campaign Coordinator will enhance party’s firm grip on Abia – Emenike
*Urges APC faithful to brace up for the task ahead
From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia
The Abia APC governorship flag bearer, High Chief Ikechi Emenike, said that he wholeheartedly accepted the assignment given to him by the APC Presidential Candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the national leadership of the ruling party as an added responsibility and opportunity to enhance the party’s grip on the state.
The APC guber candidate has therefore called on party members “to renew their strengths like the eagle” as they embark on the task of liberating the state.
Emenike gave the charge while speaking with newsmen in Umuahia on the heels of his appointment as the Abia State Coordinator of APC Presidential Campaign Council, saying that the journey to the 2023 poll was not for the fainthearted.
Emenike is used to serving APC at national level, having been the Secretary of the Contact and Strategy Committee of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee(CECPC). He also served in the presidential campaign team of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and 2019.
According to the Abia APC governorship hopeful, the party was firmly rooted in Abia and would win the majority votes to usher in the expected change in the state and restore the people’s confidence in governance through a holistic development of the state.
He said that he would not waver in his determination to liberate Abia from bad leaders and give a resounding victory to APC in the 2023 general election, adding that Abia APC members must be fully committed to the rescue mission.
“I will do my own part and if every one of us show enough commitment and effectively play their own part, I can assure you that victory will be for us,” he said.
He noted that the prospect of bringing real development to God’s own state would only be possible if APC succeeded in taking control of Abia Government House, come 2023.
The Development Economist, however, acknowledged that the battle to rescue Abia would be tough given that those holding the state down for over two decades would easily allow power to slip through their fingers.
He, therefore, charged the APC faithful to brace up for the challenge ahead and strive hard to save Abia, adding that “generations of Ndi Abia will remember you for contributing to efforts to free the state and set it on the path of development.”
According to him, Abia has degenerated to the extent that well-meaning Abians must take a stand and join the movement to rescue the state.
Emenike assured the people of Abia that he was fully prepared to turn things around to positively change the current ugly narrative of the state.
He stated that his promise to make Abia a first world economy in a third world nation was what he has set out to do, adding that “it is achievable given the potentials of the state that have not been fully tapped.”
