As oyegun seeks greater inclusion of s-east in apc administration
abuja— the immediate-past governor of ebonyi state, chief martin elechi, has
listed reasons why he defected to the all progressives congress, apc, from the
peoples democratic party, pdp.
The former Ebonyi State governor,
who registered for the APC at his country home in Echialike, Ikwo Local
Government Area in April also disclosed that Minister of Science and
Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, among other APC leaders from the South-East
zone, encouraged him to join the APC. While welcoming Elechi to the party, the
APC national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, expressed his commitment to
ensuring that the South-East adequately participate in the workings of the
governing party and indeed the administration. Oyegun said: “I have that
intense belief that every zone must and should participate effectively,
particularly the South-East zone that constitutes one of the tripod in this
nation. You cannot have a healthy polity if any part of it feels that they are
not in the mainstream. “I have had the most wonderful few months receiving
people from the South-East who have made that wonderful and desirable u-turn to
allow the Igbo race take their proper place in the scheme of things of this
nation.” Odigie-Oyegun said the APC will not repeat the culture of corruption
and waste, which was the trademark of past PDP administrations. He said: “Under
the PDP, we became an economy that was totally built on corruption. State
resources were diverted into private hands and pockets, the result of which the
poor people of this country are suffering today. “There is a serious work to be
done. At a time when oil was selling for over $120 per barrel, we neither built
roads, railways nor did we maintain our airline, nor did we refine our crude to
use, nothing. “The institutions and commonwealth of this country were totally
ran aground. We spent billions of dollars on the energy sector and we got no
energy. It is so painful. When you see the revelations today, you really feel
that sense of anger. “I am glad to receive you into the fold of the APC. The
challenges are immense. There is serious work to be done. We are in the process
of totally rebuilding this nation. We know the groans of our people, we know
what they are going through but given where we are taking off from, it became
totally inevitable. “As a party and government, we are doing everything to make
sure the kind of corruption and waste witnessed in the past never happens in
this country again. We have the boldness to investigate, to query people who
have been in government and because we are hoping too that even if they are of
the same party when we move away from office, they will look at our records.
“Unless we start doing that, we will never come out of that vicious cycle of
everybody protecting everybody’s back and so corruption becomes an institution
in its own.” The Director-General, Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu,
while welcoming the former Ebonyi State governor, called for compromise among
the party hierarchy and members in the South-East so as to strengthen the party
and win elections in the zone. At the meeting, the APC national vice chairman
(South East), Hon. Emma Eneukwu described the former Ebonyi governor as a
“colossus in the politics of igboland”. He expressed confidence that with the
admittance of the former governor and his many loyalists, the APC will take over
the reins of Ebonyi state, come 2019. “Ebonyi State is very ripe for APC to
take. Anybody who is democratically elected, who is the choice of the people,
who has emerged from the mandate of the people, must do the mandate of the
people. But when you are imposed on the people, you become a terrorist you
dictate as if that seat belongs to your father. That is why APC in 2019 will
show Ebonyi state how to elect a leader,” he said.
SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/left-pdp-apc-martin-elechi/
SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/left-pdp-apc-martin-elechi/
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