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As campaigns gradually wind up ahead of Saturday’s council chairmanship and councillorship poll in Enugu State, Governor, Peter Mbah, has urged the electorate to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to consolidate his administration’s development strides.
Mbah, who is also the PDP leader in the state, said that his administration was already undertaking over 1,000 projects across Enugu State, with at least N1 billion worth of projects for each of the 260 wards.
The governor spoke at the grand finale of the PDP campaign, which was held at the Okpara Square, Enugu, yesterday. Speaking Mbah said: “When we say power to the people in PDP, we understand where power belongs.
You entrusted your mandate to those who will hit the ground running. We are currently executing over 1,000 projects in our state. And what that means is that you have not entrusted your future to people that will use it for trial and error.
“We are building in your various wards, 260 Smart Green Schools and 260 Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centres. It is not just about bricks and mortars. It is to ensure that every child has access to quality learning. And it is not just about quality learning.
We are talking about robotics, mechatronics, augmented realities, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and computer-generated images. The idea is that 10 to 15 years from now, no child in Enugu State would ever be poor. “We are spending over a billion naira in every ward. What that means is that we are generating wealth in every community.
The byeproducts of these activities are employment generation and wealth creation so that our people will no longer be hungry.
It is not about giving you handouts. It is about providing you jobs so you can work and get paid.” He noted that the PDP took conscious steps to elect credible candidates for the council primary election, knowing that the rural communities were the most developmentally challenged.
Earlier in his remarks, the Chairman of the PDP in Enugu State, Dr. Martin Chukwunweike, said the party’s State Executive Committee campaigned in all the LGAs, while the chairmanship candidates campaigned intensively in all the 260 wards, noting, however, that they did not see the opposition campaigning anywhere. “If you do not campaign, how do you hope to win? It is a walkover.
Nevertheless, we urge our supporters to come out and vote en masse to make the needed statement,” he stated. Speaking to newsmen, the party’s chairmanship flagbearer in Isi-Uzo LGA, Hon. Obioara Obeagu, said the governor’s numerous projects had liquidated the vestiges of opposition.
