The governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in Imo State, Chief Uche Nwosu, has pledged to deliver one million votes to President Muhammadu Buhari at the February 16 presidential election. This is also as he stressed the support of the state’s chapter of Action Alliance for Buhari’s re-election, which he noted was non-negotiable. In the same vein, the Labour Party in the state has stated that the state would remain incapable of combating poverty until there is an intentional modification in the economic model of the state. Speaking during Action Alliance’s campaign flag-off in Owerri, Nwosu said: “President Muhammadu Buhari has given Nigerians sufficient reasons to re-elect him for another four years.
“An impeccable track record of integrity is an asset to any nation and that is what Buhari represents and it is paying off for Nigeria. He deserves a second term and in Imo, we shall deliver on our promise.” Nwosu, who was presented with the flag of the party as the authentic candidate of the party by the National Chairman of the party, assured that he would consolidate and where necessary improve on the legacies of Governor Rochas Okorocha.
He, however, noted that he left APC because of brazen injustice meted out on him and his supporters by the national leadership of the APC. He said: “Okorocha singlehandedly brought the APC to Imo and entire SouthEast when nobody wanted to hear anything about the party and the name of Buhari but today,those who castigated Okorocha, booed and despised him for joining the APC and for supporting President Buhari in 2015 are now the very people brought in by Adams Oshiomhole to control the party.” High point of the event was the defection of a number of political stalwarts and their followers from rival political parties to the Action Alliance.
They include: the Okigwe zonal chairman of the Legacy Party, Tony Nwigwe; the State Organizing Secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP); some members of the MAJA party, those of the Alliance for Democracy (AD); the Rebuild Nigeria Party and Democratic Alternative (DA). Meanwhile, the Imo State governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Chief Ikechukwu Ukaegbu, made the statement yesterday in Owerri, the Imo state capital during an interactive session with candidates of the party for the 2019 elections. He noted that Nigeria was already wearing a label as the poverty capital of the world and that reality should worry every state government.
He said: “It should trigger in every good leader, the urge to make deliberate efforts to get their people out of poverty into a secure, self-sustaining society. “So far, Imo is running on a consumer-economy where we buy everything – things we can produce by ourselves and even things we do not need. If we must alleviate and eradicate poverty, Imo must adopt and promote a productionbased economic model.” Speaking earlier, the Deputy Governorship candidate of the party, Mr. Bright Nwelue, noted that agriculture would be the mainstay of the Imo economy under a Labour Party government.
