Over Five thousand members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), have defected to the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) in Abia.
Receiving the decampees at the Community Primary School Field, Nkwoegu, in Umuahia North the stakeholders of the party in the area, welcomed the new members, assuring them of fairness and a level playing ground.
Receiving the Decampees
Similarly, the Deputy Chief Whip of Abia State House of Assembly and Member representing the people of Umuahia North State Constituency, Hon Kelechi Onuzuruike, has disclosed that he has no intention to retain his membership in the State House come 2023.
The Lawmaker who disclosed this to the press during his 6th year anniversary celebration, said after his second tenure in the Abia State House of Assembly, he would leave but would still remain in active politics, being a young man that has so much to offer the nation and Abia state.
Onuzuruike said he is not yet certain as to the position he would go for in 2023, but hinted that he would first of all pray to God and do the necessary consultations, then if he scales through, he would then inform Abians of his ambition.
Reacting to the question whether his Governorship ambition in 2023 is valid, the Deputy Chief Whip said the Governorship race is open to every Abian.
” If you hear i want to contest for governorship is because i have alot to offer. If i join the race, i will win.For now, lets focus on the task at hand”, he said.
Reeling out his achievements for the past six years as a legislature, Hon Onuzuruike, said he has been able to attract infrastructural development across the five wards that make up his constituency.
According to him, ” I have infrastructural representation in four out of the five wards that make up my constituency.Presently, there is an ongoing construction of a Magistrate Court in the fifth ward. A project that would be completed in September this year”, the Lawmaker added.
“We have been able to attract three School projects to Nkwoegu, Umuhu and Isingwu wards.Believing to sponsor and move more Bills on the floor of the House, that will affect my constituents positively”.
Hon Onuzuruike stated that even though the primary responsibilities of a Lawmaker is to make Laws, represent and perform oversight functions, he would personally carry out projects before the expiration of his tenure.
However, the Lawmaker disclosed that the defection of the over 5000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the All Progressives Grand (APGA), collapsing into the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was as a result of the peaceful disposition of the party in the area.
He said his achievements in the State House of Assembly largely contributed to the massive defection of APC and APGA members into the PDP, adding that the Commissioner of Finance, Hon Aham Uko and other Ohuhu sons and daughters have consolidated in one way or the other on the gains of the party.
Onuzururike further welcomed the new members of the party, assuring them of equal treatment between the old and new members, stressing that they would not regret their decision.
The Deputy Chairman of Umuahia North Local Government Area, Hon Bob Abuba, said he is overwhelmed with the happenings in Ohuhu especially the large number of decampees.
Hon Bob Agbugba
Hon Agbugba who commended the Lawmaker representing the Umuahia North State Constituency, for his effective representation that has nosedived into the unity the PDP is enjoying in the area, said with the recent rate of suffering, killings, banditry and insurgency across the nation, the PDP stakeholders in the area is ready to go down to the grassroot to ensure every youth, women, men and the elderly switch over to the PDP.
“People are nolonger happy with the happenings in Nigeria under the watch of APC. But the PDP is a united and peaceful family.Abia state for example is not like other states that are faced with high rate of insecurity because it is a PDP state.
The LGA boss, revealed that as part of his contribution to his people, since he assumed office as a Deputy Chairman, among other people’s oriented projects, has been able to register over eighty students for JAMB examination, assuring the people of more dividend of democracy.
