Ejikeme Uwa–UMUAHIA
Abia State governorship candidate under the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Professor Gregory Ibe has said that he believes in the state, and that is why he is the highest investor both in economic and human capital development in the State.
Professor Ibe made this known while interacting with newsmen today in Umuahia.
He said that because of the interest he have in the state, he is eminently qualified to be the next governor of the state, adding that he will liberate the state from bad governance, poverty and hopelessness if he becomes the governor in 2023.
“I have to sound very modest to say that I am a candidate of choice to every Abian because I am the highest investor in Abia State, I have been supporting government’s since the past 24 years and bad governance is effecting the state, hence my determination to bring back Abia to the path of development if elected the governor of the state.
“I want to make Abia state to be the best in terms of developments both in human capital and in infrastructural development and that is what is taking me there. I want to see a new Abia where you treat people according to the definition of democracy.
“So I am prepared and ready to make sure that power return to the people and the people will manage their resources through their Chief servant whom they have recruited to handle their finances for the given period of the years I will be there so that they can thank God Almighty for the choice they have made.
“As a consultant to Economic community of West African states(ECOWAS), African Development Bank and the federal government,I have the pedigree to return the past glory of Abia state and to return the dream of every Abian because I have the experience that befits a worthy life before now. That is exactly what I am doing now so I am not afraid because I know I will do it,” Professor Ibe stated.
He said that it was a Herculean task leaving the People Democratic Party (PDP) to a new party,adding that he thank Almighty God who does everything in His terms and ways, so the rest is news now and very hopeful that at the end of the governorship election in 2023 APGA will return victorious in Abia state and in other states of the country.
He called on the people of Abia State, to go and get there PVCs, adding that he will be doing the bidding of lovers of democracy in the state.