The former president of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Adolphus Wabara, has applauded the Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu’s administration, stating that he has transformed the educational sector, infrastructures among others.
Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, displaying his vanguard award.
The elder statesman who disclosed this to newsmen in Aba recently, maintained that the Abia governor understands very well that education is the bedrock of all development, hence, the reason he prioritized it in Abia.
Wabara further said that Gov. Ikpeazu had given Aba a face-lift through the provisions of critical infrastructures, insisting that these and many more have turned the city into an economic hub of Southeastern Nigeria.
In his words: “When the flood control project in Ndiegoro, Ngwa road and its environs among other Infrastructural development projects are completed, Aba would become much better than it is today.”
The Pro-chancellor and the chairman of the Governing council, Abia State University Uturu (ABSU) explained that this has attracted a lot of development and investment in the state, noting that Gov. Ikpeazu has performed creditably in the past six years in office.
He urged Abians to continue to support Gov. Ikpeazu, highlighting that the governor is more determined and committed towards delivering dividends of democracy to the people.
Meanwhile, Senator Wabara has advised Gov. Ikpeazu to stand for equity following the controversy over which zone produces the next governor of Abia State come 2023.
Wabara further disclosed that Ikpeazu is a child of equity and should grow to become a father of equity in the state.
He condemned what he described as conspiracy theories from several sections of the state on where power should shift in 2023.
“If Ikpeazu’s predecessor didn’t believe in equity, there is no way we, the Ukwa/Ngwa people would have smelt that seat. If Senator Theodore Orji had not pronounced that he was going to hand over to Abia South, I don’t think Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu would have been Governor. The Governor knows my stand. He should follow the footsteps of his predecessor. Ikpeazu should be a child of equity and do the needful. My advice is that he should be in charge of equity and do things right and there would be peace. And I know he won’t be misled. I don’t want to go to the nitty gritty of the conspiracy theories here and there. All these conspiracies will not help; Abia State will outlive all of us. Let him guide us, The Governor has nothing to fear. By next year or 2023, let him grow from child of equity to father of equity”, he further explained
On the rumoured defection of the Governor to the APC, Wabara explained that the Governor has met with the members of the PDP Board of Trustees, and assured that he will not defect to any party.
He commended Ikpeazu for his support to the Abia State University, Uturu, stressing that the Governor’s greatest legacy is in the area of education as the bedrock of development.
“The most important legacy Governor Ikpeazu would leave in Abia is in the area of education. The Governor knows that education is the bedrock of development that’s why most of us follow his footsteps; you see Abia has many PhD holders now. We borrowed all that from the Governor. I commended the Governor for supporting ABSU and giving education its pride of place in the state knowing the fact that education remains the bedrock of development.
