Members of Abia Political Movement in a meeting
‘We’ll sponsor political orphans seeking elective offices in 2023,” group assures Abians
[From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia]
Abia Political Movement (APM) has assured that it would sponsor qualified candidates from the state who do not have the wherewithal to contest elective offices in the 2023 general elections.
The group assured that it will enable these political ‘orphans’ of Abia extraction seeking elective offices to actualize their ambitions in the 2023 elections.
APM which has vowed to be an active participant in all the electoral process leading to election of new leaders for Abia in 2023, also said it would provide financial support for politicians to prosecute their political project or those who do not have godfathers to endorse them.
Director-General of APM, Mazi Dr Agodi Kanu, who made this known, said the group would not fold its hands but take part in the process of choosing leaders across board in 2023.
“We must decide who would be our Governor, Senators, House of Representatives Members, House of Assembly Members, Local Government Area Chairmen and Councilors, which should be through our consensus and numerical strength.
“We are a moving Movement that want to give leadership opportunities to Abians desirous to serve but lack resources or godfather to back them up. We believe and play Personality Profile Politics as opposed to Political Party Politics.
“We are neither controlled nor funded by any government, gladiator or moneybag. APM, as an Abia Child of Circumstance, is and will be funded by all Abians. We are opposed to every form of manipulation and abuse of our sensibilities through subterranean imposition of leaders on us that has done us no good,” the APM leader said.
Kanu, therefore, called on political parties to observe internal democracy in picking their candidates for various elective offices and to embark on vigorous voters’ advocacy across the state as the race for 2023 election gathers momentum.
He frowned at the activities of some political parties who he accused of deploying youths as thugs for the sole purpose of disrupting elections and urged Abia youths to shun being used as hoodlums and thugs.
He emphasised that Abia state cannot be equated with other states in terms of infrastructural development which he blamed on bad leadership.
According to Mazi Kanu, 2023 presents an opportunity for Abians, both at home and in the Diaspora ‘to rise to the occasion by getting their PVCs ready, return home and vote for leaders after their hearts.’
“The power of the ballot is more than the power of the bullet, So, Abians should come out in their number and vote in 2023. In 2023, we shall change the narrative,“ the APM Director-General added.
