LEADER of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State Chief Ikechi Emenike has called on stakeholders and traditional rulers to vote for candidates of their choice.
Emenike decried the apathy stakeholders and rulers in the state exhibit during elections, saying in the northern part of the country, emirs and all leaders vote freely during elections.
Speaking in Umuahia during his tour of Umuahia North and South to sensitise the electorate on why they should support APC, Emenike said they should vote as their presence would make others to vote.
Emenike noted that there should be a change of attitude in stakeholders and traditional rulers:
“When you go to the northern part of the country during election, you will see all the stakeholders and others waiting patiently to cast their votes”,
He said: “That is the type of thing we are expecting our stakeholders, traditional rulers and other leaders to be doing during any elections, as their presence will always encourage others to come and vote and keep hoodlums in check”.
Emenike warned that election is around the corner when those politicians who left the state would start sharing few cups of rice, wrappers and dishing out small amounts of money entice people for their votes.
He advised them to collect such items as it is their money, as such politicians will disappear once elections are over only to return in four years.
The APC chieftain informed the people that the party in the state will not share money when they get into office as the money the administration is sharing is meant to serve, work for the people and develop the state.
He explained that the continuous sharing of money meant for development of has set the state backward for over 20 years.
“However the APC government in the state will surely change the narrative”.
Emenike assured the people that the APC government will establish local banks where the people will be made to access loans to develop their business and improve the internally generated revenue.
He explained that other things to be established in the state will be an insurance company to employ youths andgenerate more funds for the government.
The APC boss said with such capital investments, capital flight to other banks and insurance companies which use the state as cash collection centres will be a thing of the past.
He explained that the tour of the party to all 17 councils is to wake up the people on the need for them to know their right and for them to get what rightly belongs to them.
In his vote of thanks, Iheanyi Ekwuruibe said an APC government won’t build roads on billboards in 2019, and thanked Emenike for opening their eyes.
