Mbaise mandates Ihedioha to contest 2015 guber election

From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri

The Imo State 2015 governorship race has continued to gather momentum as the Mbaise nation has urged the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha to contest the 2015 gubernatorial election in 2015. At a solidarity visit to the Deputy Speaker at his country home, Mbutu, in Aboh Mbaise LGA, attended by prominent politicians of Mbaise extraction, including Hon. Ngozi Pat Ekeji, the Minority leader of Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Chudi Uwazuruike representing Okigwe South Federal Constituency, Hon. Obioma Ekennia, among others.
The group insisted that Ihedioha with a towering profile and enviable pedigree is the best material among other contenders for the Imo State plum job to move the state forward.
Dr. Joe Ndu, a former commissioner in the National Population Commission (NPC), who spoke the minds of the people, said that as a governor, Ihedioha would provide a change in the style of leadership, which would be well focused and characterised by a distinctive sense of purpose and direction.
“He will provide a government that will demonstrate a noticeable ability to reverse the unemployment rate and increasing pauperisation of the state and will immediately restore the security of life and property in the state and protects the safety of the state itself which has been put in serious danger”.
Enumerating more reasons the people want Ihedioha to succeed Okorocha in the next two years, Chief Ndu recalled that he (Ihedioha) between 2003 and 2007 raised his personal fund to rehabilitate 14 primary and secondary school blocks within Aboh Mbaise/Ngor Okpala just as he initiated and facilitated the process for the construction of N1billion jetty at Imo River Owerrinta/Okpala, Imo/Abia state border.
Ndu equally drew attention to the construction of a 133 x33 KVA sub station located between Nguru and Ibeku facilitated by Ihedioha and which, according to him, had so far attracted over N22 billion from Federal Government.
He commended the deputy speaker for his giant strides in the areas of human capacity building and empowerment, award of scholarships, youth employment, Ndu argued that a revolutionary change is needed in pace and tempo of governance in the state.
Chief Ihedioha, in his response to the request of the people, assured that his commitment to the Mbaise nation would never waver.
He commended the people for the confidence reposed in him and pledged to consult his political associates for necessary feedback to the group and promised never to disappoint the people.