Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has stressed the need to elect the APGA candidate, Chief Emmanuel Nwachukwu, in order to produce someone from Nnewi South extraction for the first time at this Saturday bye-election in the Anambra South Senatorial District.
Governor Soludo, who was speaking at Central School Field, Ukpor, during the Nnewi South Local Government Campaign Rally for APGA, recalled how insecurity ravaged Ukpor during the last gubernatorial campaign, expressing joy that the community is now safe to live, tasking them on voting and protecting their votes and expressed optimism that the will of the people will prevail at the election.
While assuring the people of Orsumenyi of entrenching peace in the community after over twenty years of crisis, the Governor promised that the ongoing rehabilitation of the Ichida-Azigbo-Osumenyi-Akwa Ihedi-Unubi road will be commissioned by December, and promised that the bad Ezinifite – Ukpor road will be measured and constructed by his government.
On his part, Chief Nwachukwu stressed that the Governor has achieved so much to be supported, just as the National Chairman of APGA, Barr. Sly Ezeokenwa, Chief Ikenna Mbazulike-Amaechi, Dr. Felix Odimegwu, Barr. Tneodora Igwegbe, Chief Patrick Ubajiaka, Chief Akai Egwuonwu, among others, described Governor Soludo as the leader of the progressives, manifested by the show of organic love by Ndi Nnewi South at the rally.
The Governor had earlier flagged-off the rehabilitation of the Ichida-Azigbo-Osumenyi-Akwa Ihedi-Unubi road.
