QUESTION: In 2015, Nigeria will hold another election and you are aspiring to become the number one citizen of Abia State, on the platform of PPA, what is expected of you sir?
ANSWER:
If you ask me, honestly, I’m not preparing for elections, I’m preparing for swearing in ceremony because who am I going to contest with? Whosoever PDP brings out is going to fail, because the PDP government in Abia State have performed abysmally poor. We understand that the governor have tried his best. We are not saying that he has not, but we are saying that his best is not good enough for Abians. So, I will be contesting for the governorship of Abia, I have enough hard wares to play the hard game, I have my blue print in every area that will improve Abia and I will improve on what we have on ground. Like I keep saying most times when people ask me, am not going to look back on who has done what, I will simply hit the ground running to develop Abia. Abia has enough resources for development, Abia makes more money than Enugu State, and we make more that Ebonyi, Anambra and Imo states. By virtue of my office as the Secretary General of ALGON, I sit on FAC as an observer. So, what comes to every state. If you compare what goes to the state with the developmental activities in the state, what we have in Abia is painful. Abia has less than N3 billion naira wage bill in a month, and makes more than 5billion naira in a month from allocation, that does not include allocations to the local governments which does not get there. The intervention fund is not included. It does not include excess crude fund and money that comes from other donor agencies from international bodies or even ecological funds. So, if you see what comes to Abia, you will find out that it is a misnormal vis a vis the developmental activities.
