The former Governor of Anambra
State, Mr. Peter Obi has assured that the PDP members in the National Assembly
will work with APGA for the ultimate good and progress of the State. He said
this yesterday during the presentation of Certificates of Return to those that
won the Senatorial and House of Representatives seats in the State.
Flanked by the Senator-elect for Anambra South, Sen. Andy Uba; Hon. Uche Ekwunife (Central); and Princess
Stella Oduah (Anambra North), Obi said that
the benefit of having three of them in one party was that they would
work together for the good of Anambra
State in particular and Nigeria in general. He expressed happiness that Anambra
has ranking members in House to ensure that the State benefitted from
distribution of Committees and other related matters.
Asked to comment on Gov. Willie Obiano’s
broadcast, where he said that the National Assembly election was rigged and the
actual reasons why the PDP did not win a single House of Assembly seat in the
last election, Obi , who said that he was not given to careless talk, said that
the National Assembly election was
peaceful and orderly unlike the election for the State Assembly that was
fraught with massive inducement, threat to lives and property and many other atrocities.
He however said that since it had given the Governor the APGA members that he said he needed to
work with, that the prayers of every Anambra man was for the
Governor to build on the foundations already laid for the good of the people of
the State.
Speaking on those foundations Obi
recalled that it was under his Government that the State built the first
Secretariat, built the first Teaching Hospital; returned schools to the Church and invested
so much in education that the State came first in NECO and WAEC for three
consecutive years; rebuilt Onitsha, especially the ten-lane Upper-Iweka Head
bridge dual Carriage road; provided many vehicles to security agencies as well
as started the demolition of houses owned by, or used for kidnapping; started
two major hotels for the State and three shopping complexes in Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi.
Obi who also recalled that it was
under him that the Federal Ministry of Works adjudged Anambra as the best in network
of roads and the Debt Management Office adjudged the State as the least in
indebtedness, prayed that those standard should be maintained and built upon.
Calling for judicious use of
State resources, he said it was precisely the reason why, in spite of his great
achievements, he was able to save and leave 75 Billion Naira in cash and investment
after he left office, even when others left debts for their States. “As it is today the dollar component of the money we left
has appreciated to almost 40 Billion Naira”, Obi said.
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