Youth Leaders Endorse Umeh For Senate Seat
The ambition of the Labour Party (LP) candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial district of Anambra state in the 2023 general election, Senator Victor Umeh, has received a boost as the umbrella body of Igbo youth organizations has endorsed him as their preferred candidate to represent the senatorial zone.
In a joint statement, president-general and publicity secretary of the Igbo youth group, Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (COSEYL) Hon. Goodluck Ibem and Comrade Okey Nwaoru respectively described Victor Umeh as a strong Igbo voice and dogged defender of the interest of Ndigbo.
They stated that before they decided to throw their weight behind the former national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) they traced his past contributions and performances when he was in the senate in 2018, as well as, APGA national chairman and found him most suitable to represent the Anambra central senatorial district come the next dispensation when compared with others contesting the position with him.
Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma has said peace is inevitable for development and progress to be achieved in the state.
He added that no amount of blackmail, propaganda and backbiting would deter him from pursuing peace and from doing things that would please God, more so as blackmail had been proved to be as old as mankind.
The governor spoke yesterday at the end of a thanksgiving service in honour of Justice Chinaemerem Onuegbu, wife of chief political adviser and head political bureau, Enyinna Onuegbu, at the Anglican Church of the Pentecost, Area ‘H’ New Owerri.
Addressing the congregation, Uzodimma noted that the synergy between the church and government remained non- negotiable because “there is every need for the government to seek the prayers of the church for it to succeed.”
He said, “When one eye is bleeding, the other eye is also bleeding.”
He acknowledged that in Imo, it is only God that has helped the state to continue to exist and regretted that “many people have refused to see good things happening even when their eyes are open.”
Making reference to the sermon of the day that harped on “trusting God”, drawn from Psalm 72:12, the governor said it is only God that gives life and as citizens we are having life because God exists.
“Be you a Christian, Muslim, Bishop, politician or businessman, God sees all of us and what we do.”
The Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Ohaji/Egbema, Rt. Rev. Chidi Oparajiaku, admonished the congregation to always take their problems to God, stressing that “God is the helper of the helpless and God opens doors for those who trust in Him.”