By Ogochukwu Isioma
Candidate of the Action Peoples Party (APP) in the forthcoming March 11, 2023 governorship election in Abia State, Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu, has declared that the APP would restore good governance in the Southeastern state.
Igbere TV reports that Chief Mascot made the declaration on Friday (yesterday) during the APP gubernatorial campaign rally/ward tour across the various wards in Isiala-Ngwa North and Obi-Ngwa Local Government Areas of the state.
Addressing the supporters and party faithfuls who had come out in their number to receive the former Chief of Staff, Chief Mascot called on the people of Abia to elect him as Governor come March 11, 2023, vowing to lead by example.
He said that the Action Peoples Party was out to rescue the state, rewrite history in Abia and make the Southeastern “God’s own state” great again.
Chief Mascot said his party will embark on several people-oriented projects and programmes including solar-powered community boreholes, road project in every local government area and functional health care centres in every local government area with free medical care.
Others, he said, were free education from primary to secondary level, revolution in the Agriculture sector starting with provision of fertilizer to farmers, generation of 10,000 jobs every year in four years for Abia youths and women and prompt payment of salaries and pension to teachers and civil servants in the state.
On his part, the Deputy Governorship candidate, Professor Osondu Akoma who re-echoed the campaign promises of his party, said the APP would re-introduce free primary health care, and free primary and secondary education in the state.
Chairmen of the party in the Wards and party faithfuls who spoke in turns, vowed to enthrone good governance in Abia State by voting massively and electing Chief Mascot Uzor Kalu as Governor come March 11, 2023.
Among dignitaries on the Action Peoples Party (APP) gubernatorial candidate’s campaign trail include the Deputy Governorship candidate, Professor Osondu Akoma and other chieftains of the party in the state.