APGA pledges to take over Abia in 2015 0 BY CHUKS ONUOHA, UMUAHIA ON JULY 30, 2014 · POLITICS National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, has said the party is poised to take over Abia State Government House in 2015 and transform the state into a mordern one as it did in Anambra State. He described APGA as the symbol of Igbo identity and unity, stating: “Next year, 2015, it is APGA that will take the lead. We will do more than we have been doing now; Abia State will be like Anambra State.” He told APGA supporters that the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s dream for the Igbo was the attainment unity “because he believed that when we are united, nothing shall be impossible for Ndigbo.” The transformation the party was promoting, he said, would be total and touch every aspect of life, including infrastructural development, employment and qualitative education. He noted that the legacies of the late Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, Dr. Michael Okpara, were still unparallelled in the annals of the state, adding that it was the former premier’s UPGA that transformed to APGA. Speaking on the just concluded national conference, the National Chairman said that the just concluded national conference was a veritable platform for deciding Nigeria;s future . According to him, the conference afforded Nigerians the opportunity to interact and chart the way forward for the nation as he described his membership of the conference as a good thing for the Igbo nation. Ume who was in Umuahia to commission the new APGA state secretariat along Mission Hill said that though the conference did not agree on all the issues raised but that it discussed some fundamental issues of national importance which would help the country navigate through its turbulent and challenging period if implemented. He cited instance with the issue of special fund for rebuilding the North East region which was rejected because it did not consider the fact that the civil war victims in the South east were not compensated. Umeh explained that the fair and just thing to do will be to accommodate victims of the war and other conflicts across Nigeria. He maintained that the conference could not agree on derivation but believed that whatever would be decided eventually would be based on equity and justice. He called on the Igbo nation to remain united in order to make impact in national discourse saying that APGA slogan is unity.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:11:25 +0000
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