ABIA APC Governorship candidate promises to recuse, develope Abia

….to create 12 home groom billionaires

Emelam Udo,Umuahia

High Chief Ikechi Emenike, the Abia APC Governorship candidate in the March 11, election says if elected the Governor, he will develop 12 Home-groom billionaires based in Abia within the first three years in office.

He said big institutions are not created out of thin air but built by endowed, encouraged and determined human beings.

He said, he is in the contest to rescue and develop Abia State which has been in the shackles of misrule since its creations of the State.

Emenike stated this at his Umukabia, Ohuhu, Umuahia North Country home when he unveiled his manifesto titled “Ready to Rescue and Develop Abia with 23 key deliverables for 2023.

The APC Abia Governorship candidate said some of the key deliverables include, if elected, he will lead by example, demonstrating discipline hard working, integrity and unwavering commitment to the new Abia State and ensure that all Abia citizens follow the same path.

-Abians will be the means (agents) and end (beneficiaries) of the economic development efforts and projects.

– Prompt and institutionalized payment of salaries and pensions.

– Enhance the quality and size of Abia budget.

– Prioritize youth employment, empowerment, economic advancement and entrepreneurism.

– Be the chief marketing officer of made in Abia products

– Create building blocks for development such as agriculture, financial, industrial, technological and infrastructural base for sustainable development of Abia and at the end of his four years in office, Abia would be spiritually, physically, economically and socially better than it has been among others.

Emenike further said that if elected the Governor of Abia State come March 11, paying of public sector workers would be priority as his government, would not owe workers their monthly salaries or retires their pensions.

He also disclosed that he would find solution to the alarming unemployment situation in state which he would has remained one of the major reasons for his bid to be governor.

The Abia APC Governorship candidate also said that if elected he would embark on massive rehabilitation of roads and construction of new ones as no community would be left out in his infrastructural development programme.

He also promised to introduce truly free education from primary up to junior secondary school level (JSS 3) without any form of levees or monetary demands.

Emenike enjoined Abia electorate not to vote any person who had in one way or the other taken part to impoverish Abia for the past 24 years.

“Without building walls of development, Abia will not come out of circle of poverty. We can make the change we have to carry Abia from where it is to another level.

I will create industrial parks in Abia if elected. Government should encourage investors to build their business before asking them to pay taxes.

If I win come March 11, I will build an international Airport by December next year” said Emenike.