By Tony Adibe
The Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, has stated that the Ezeagu Local Government Area of the state will have to play a major role in the actualization of his master plan, and economic blueprint for the state, if elected the next governor in the forthcoming elections.
Dr Mbah said at Mgbagbu Owa and Umuna, both headquarters of Ezeagu Central and Ezeagu South Development Centres in the council area during his town hall meetings, which attracted stakeholders from different communities, professions, and associations.
Commenting on the presentations and demands made by the people of the development centres, Dr. Mbah said the local government is blessed with abundant resources that have been dormant over the years, and stressed that his administration would activate and operationalize those dormant assets for the benefits of the state.
While still pointing out that his government would harness the arable agricultural potentials in the area for revenue drive and massive employment of both the youths and women, Dr. Mbah insisted that the state has the capacity to feed itself and other states with the deployment of technology to migrate the agricultural sector from subsistence to agro-allied processing which will commercialize the sector.
Promising to declare war on hunger and poverty in the state, Dr Mbah insisted that his government will achieve food security for the state and become a major export hub in the country. In order to achieve the laudable projects of tapping into other resources in the area, Dr. Mbah underscored why his manifesto prioritizes infrastructure which included 10,000 kilometers of roads across the state within the next 8 years, partnering with major investors and engaging the youth productively.
The PDP standard bearer reassured the people that all the sectors that will serve as catalysts for revenue generation, economic boom, wealth creation, employment, and development will be optimally explored and exploited to move the state to enviable heights.
According to him, the Okpoko River Picnic Centre in Ihuezi Obinofia Ndiuno, Heneke Lake in Obinofia Ndiuno, the Premier Cashew Industry in Oghe with about 2000 hectares of land, the Ebechukwu Cave in Ihuezi Obinofia Ndiuno, and Igwuetiti Amansiodo Oghe oil well will all be activated and turned into productive assets that will make the state one of the top three states in Nigeria in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), standard of living, job creation, and industrialisation.
While maintaining that his integrated sectoral plan will link all the access roads to further expand the market and scale up production, Dr. Mbah reiterated that the popular Ikedimkpa road, the Ninth Mile-Agubu-Owa-Mgbagbu-Owa-Greater Water Scheme en route Awka Road will be constructed as infrastructure is critical to his administration.
Promising that his government’s target revolves around the youth who will constitute the major workforce, the oil and gas magnate reiterated that skills acquisition and vocational training centres that will upscale and upskill them to meet up with the new skills that investors will require will be impacted, including availability of social amenities.
Speaking earlier, the spokespersons for the different communities and associations at the town-hall meetings promised to continue to mobilize their people to vote for the party, especially its governorship candidate whom they described as an epitome of good governance, competence, and capacity. They expressed confidence that Mbah would bring his wealth of experience from the private sector and trigger industrial revolution through his comprehensive manifesto and statement of purpose. The chairman of the council area, Hon. Chukwudi Ozoeluba declared that his people had already adopted Mbah’s candidacy as their collective project, and vowed to deliver him in all the polling units in the council area.
