Abia governorship: I'll crush 19 lawsuits against my candidacy - Emenike

Chief Ikechi Emenike

Chief Ikechi Emenike

By Leonard Okachie

Chief Ikechi Emenike, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Abia, said he will crush 19 lawsuits instituted against him after the party’s primary election.

He stated this on Sunday while unveiling his deputy governorship candidate, Mrs Gloria Akara.

The APC standard bearer said that he had successfully disposed of 13 of the suits, leaving six pending.

“I am confident that, by God’s grace, the remaining suits will be disposed of like the others,” he said.

According to him, the party’s choice of a female deputy governorship candidate was to demonstrate that “it does not only talk about gender equality but practices it.”

Emenike said that the emergence of a female deputy governor would help to end the era of “lootocracy” in governance in Abia.

Abia has not produced a female deputy governor since the state was created in 1991.

The governorship hopeful said that he decided to pick his deputy from Ukwa to end many decades of exclusion of the area from the central government of Abia.

“It has always been my desire that Ukwa is involved in the central executive governance,” he said.

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However, he noted that it was regrettable that the area had only been used as cannon fodder during wartime but abandoned in peacetime.

“Our quest for the governorship was not per se human.” It came from God, who promised that one day the liberation of Abia would come. At this point in time, Abia’s liberation is around the corner. ”

Meanwhile, he said that his primary mission was to rescue the state and proceed to establish the building blocks for development.

“If God says we will be governor and deputy governor, nobody can stop it.” The primaries are over, so we must come together to win the governorship in 2023.

“If we do not win, the punishment and suffering in Abia will multiply.” “This is the first time APC is producing a governorship candidate without the state government having a hand in it, “he added.

In her acceptance speech, Akara thanked Emenike for finding her worthy to run with him for the 2023 poll.

She said, “His hand of fellowship to Ukwa to produce the deputy governor for the first time in the history of Abia is a gesture that our people cannot thank him enough.”

“I believe that the emergence of Emenike, a renowned economist, is the answer to our prayers. The fact that he is here to rescue Abia is the answer to prayer because Abia people have cried to God to intervene in the affairs of the state.

“God has sent him as a messiah to turn things around,” Akara added.

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