The Soeaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji has urged politicians in the State to exercise restraints in their utterances and actions and work together for the peace and political stability of the State.
The Speaker stated this earlier today while receiving a delegation of Ikwuano/Umuahia political stakeholdes who visited him at his Umuahia residence to present him with Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for the Federal House of Representatives.
The Speaker who described the delegation as men and women of peace expressed the need for leaders and politicians to conduct themselves in manners that will not throw the State into confusion in the run up to the 2023 elections and expressed his gratitude to the stakeholders for finding him worthy of such kind gesture of theirs even though he had resolved to rest from pilutics for now. He promised he was going to revert back to them shortly in order for him to reflect more on the issue and consult more widely particularly with the youths who had also earlier thronged his residence demanding he enters the governorship race, saying this was important so everyone would feel carried along in whatever decision he finally arrives at.
Presenting the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to the Speaker earlier, one of the leaders of the delegation, Pastor Emeka Inyama, said although Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji is eminently qualified to vie for the office of Governor as the youth rightly demanded but that the Ikwuano/Umuahia Stakeholders have come to urge him to contest for the Federal House of Representatives “so as to continue speaking for us having done very well as both a Lawmaker and Speaker”. Inyama reeled out some of the achievements of the Speaker to include the remodelling of the Abia State House of Assembly Complex to a ‘mini-London’, the construction of several mini Stadiums across three local government areas, the substantial empowerment of youths across the state, he stability he has brought to the State Assembly and the suiport and cooperation given to the Governor and the Executive Arm of Government among others. He therefore urged the Speaker to accept their clarion call to run for House of Representatives.
On his part, the member representing Umuahia South State Constituency at the Abia State House of Assembly, and a member of the stakeholders forum, Barr Jerry Uzosike, had urged the Speaker to strongly consider their request as he remains undoubtedly qualified to vie for any office in the land.
Other stakeholders present at the presentation ceremony are a founding member of PDP in the State, Chief Charles Ogbonnaya (Evuleogu), Executive Chairman of Umuahia North LGA, Hon Ugochukwu Njikonye, a former Commissioner for Lands & Survey in the State, Hon Suleiman Ukandu, a former Commissioner of Public Utilities, Chief Emma Nwabuko, a chieftain of the PDP, Chief Mrs Ngozi Oji, immediate past Transition Council Chairman of Umuahia North LGA, Chief Lucky Akabuike among others.
Jude Ndukwe
Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker,
Abia State House of Assembly
03/04/2022
