The All Progressives Congress (APC) has promised to make Imo State an industrial hub where job opportunities would be created for the unemployed youths.
The Director of the APC Campaign Council, Chief Jerry Chukwueke, who made the promise in Owerri, the Imo State capital said the re-election of Governor Hope Uzodimma would deepen good governance and provide more job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youths.
Chukwueke said: “The governor has done an incredible job with limited resources that has come into Imo State. We are positioning for his re-election to focus on deepening good governance and more dividends of democracy for our people. We have done great with infrastructure; we have done well in education, and healthcare and we have attracted great federal presence, with big projects like Orashin dredging in Oguta and the prospect of the ports.”
He said Governor Uzodimma would focus more on job creation. His words: “More job creation is what the governor is focusing on his second term. He has equipped over 20,000 Imolites to bring them into the global workforce. You know we have a huge number of youth; you cannot separate insecurity from unemployment. The more we fight poverty and create more jobs, the less insecurity.”
The campaign director added that the governor would focus on harnessing the Imo agricultural value chain in his second term, by working with the private sector to establish processing plants. He said: “It is a major opportunity we have to deploy the international cargo Airport that we have to ship out processed goods out of Imo State. So, creating more jobs is a big focus for the governor’s second term.
“There is an enrollment of small scale farmers like those rearing goats, chicken, growing cassava, maize and fish farming would get assistance from the state in terms of soft loans and grants to focus in agriculture activities.”
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He said security the situation has improved, particularly in Omuoma and Ehime Mbano, which were considered to be flashpoints. He said: “I was in Omuoma and Ehime Mbano a few days ago, the whole place are bubbling with business activities and people are moving around freely and the youths have said they want jobs and that is what the governor is focusing more on when he is elected for the second term.”
On Charter of Equity, he said all the stakeholders have agreed that Orlu where Governor Uzodimma comes from should have the first shot and that, thereafter, it would be the turn of Owerri zone.