2019 Elections: PDP, APGA Candidates Talk Tough
Legislative polls expectations, Youth empowerment, security, social welfare top agenda
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The two key political parties in Anambra state-the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) have continued to flex muscles on expected outcome of the coming 2019 general elections.
The PDP candidate for Idemili North state Constituency, Chief Ikechukwu Okosa (Ijele Akudigwe) addressed his supporters and party officials at a meeting in his Umuazu, Uke, country home yesterday.
Okosa, who premised his aspiration on youth empowerment, social welfare for all and impactful leadership, said he want to return the constituency to path of economic progress, social uplift and political consciousness.
He told journalists that he was motivated to represent the area to use the platform of state Assembly to pursue the needs and challenges of Idemili North area.
The challenges, he listed include erosion menace, insecurity, unemployment and youth restiveness.
That he intends to equip youth and women with the necessary trainings to sustain them for life and also turn them to job providers.
That giving out sewing machines, motor cycles, grinding machines, etc. has not achieved much as such beneficiaries often sell such items at giveaway prices almost as soon as they collect them.
Okosa described Anambra as a heartbeat of the PDP, more so now that the nation has tested and found out that there is no party with the masses at heart like the PDP.
He described the four years’ experience of All Progressives Congress (APC) and the period of APGA leadership in the state as harrowing and urged electorates to resist every form of temptation, but to vote massively for PDP for sanity to return to the nation’s polity and economy.
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But countering Okosa’s views, Chief Arthur Ifeanyi Chiekwu the APGA State Assembly candidate for Idemili North said he want to consolidate the achievements of the party in the area so far.
According to him, “I want to bring to the State and Federal government’s notice the problems of the constituency and ensure intervention.
“To improve the lives of the citizens of the area by attracting life enhancing projects to the constituency.”
Chief Chiekwu, a youthful go-getter said he was always moved to see youths roam the streets, and lamented the so-called empowerment of electorates without proper training which was the only way to turn them into job creators, providers and manufacturers.
He noted that it’s only APGA that has what it takes to transform the lives of citizens of Anambra state through effective representation.
From Chuks Collins, Awka
