Gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has said that job creation and the empowerment of youths would be among the cardinal policies of his administration while consolidating on the good works of Governor Sullivan Chime.
Ugwuanyi who was speaking during a campaign rally at Awgu, noted that Governor Chime had set a template for good governance that would be impossible to deviate from.
He expressed satisfaction with the location of a world class pineapple farm at Awgu which has turned Enugu State into a major exporter of the produce and pledged to ensure that the project and others established by the government in the area, were not only sustained but expanded.
Noting that the PDP was like a religion in Enugu State, he urged the people to translate their massive support into votes by ensuring that they not only collected their permanent voters’s cards but turned up en masse to vote for the party’s candidates in the elections.
Also speaking, the Deputy Senate President Chief Ike Ekweremadu extolled the leadership qualities of Governor Chime saying he has not only delivered the dividends of democracy to the people but had in Hon.Ugwuanyi, chosen a worthy and fitting successor.
“Governor Sullivan Chime has done so well in Enugu State that even though his administration will end on May 29, 2015 but his leadership will continue after that date”, he said.
He disclosed that he, along with other candidates from Enugu West district, will develop a master plan for the development of the district
In his own speech, Governor Chime thanked the people for their unrelenting support for the PDP saying that the party had not come to remind them of its agreement with them but to renew it.
He also urged the people to ensure that they collected their PVCs so that they can vote in the elections and assured them that the party would continue to address their developmental needs.
