Tobi Soniyi
and youth groups, the clergy and the laity, the work force, all have come to this ancient city of Uzoakoli to give honour to whom it is due.
“As at the last count, over 38 recent road projects are going while some have been completed all over the State, including the Lohum- NkpaPortharcourt Expressway, Alayi-Item-Nkporo rehabilitation project, the Akoli Imenyi and Alayi Erosion control projects, the perennial problematic Aba road-Ceramics-Isi Court Umuahia dual carriageway, can bear witness to the fact that Governor Ikpeazu knows what Abia needs- radical road construction and rehabilitation.
“When you launched the Made in Aba campaign sir, you got us there! That campaign is a promotion of the industry of the Bende man. You are globally expanding our market horizon and increasing thee per-capita income of the Bende Man.
“When we match Ikpeazu’s giant strides in education where Abia has consistently maintained 1st in WAEC, where the long abandoned Umunnato General Hospital is transmuting to a national hospital before our very eyes and where agriculture is finally getting due recognition, culminating in the Item Poultry Farm Village and the New Rice Mill right here in Uzoakoli, our speech on this occasion could have the most captivating of titles if we pleased.”
While responding to the endorsement, the government said: “Bende people have spoken, and I thank you for speaking as a people. I also thank you for the endorsement. Bende is among the local government areas in Abia that I don’t need to campaign because I know that I have the support of Bende people. When I look around and see the number of our people hear today, I remember your support to me in 2015 and I have no doubt that I will always have your support. But let me say here that I will come back to Bende to respond appropriately on your demand for me to contest again in 2019.”
He assured them that Abia State would never go back to the days when it was regarded as a pariah state. “Jointly with Bende people, we will continue to update our state infrastructure and make our people bold in wherever they do. That why we took the made in Aba campaign which Bende people have benefited from. Today our people in Aba are proud of what they do with their hands. We sent them to China and they proved to China that we are very hard working people. As governor, I promised to wear only made in Aba cloths and I have kept my word,” the governor said.