Enugu State Governor in Southeast Nigeria, Dr. Peter Mbah, affirms his commitment to achieving the aspirations and visions of the state’s founding fathers through innovative and transformative governance.
Governor Mbah made the guarantees in a statement issued and signed by Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Mainstream Media, Dan Nwomeh, over the weekend in honour of Enugu State’s 32nd anniversary.
While praising Enugu’s founding fathers, who fought for the state’s creation in 1991, Governor Peter Mbah insisted that their efforts had not been in vain, as successive administrations have continued to uphold their legacies and work towards the realisation of those ideals.
He, however, stressed that the target of his government was to go beyond the sustenance of the dreams to actualizing them through innovation and disruptive governance philosophy.
“I salute the determination and sacrifices of our founding fathers and all those who contributed in one way or the other in the tortuous journey of ensuring that the quest for a state of our own came to fruition. We will never take their sacrifices for granted.
“Our agenda is to immortalize them by fashioning out a state that they would be proud of and a state that would stand as a reference point in socioeconomic transformation in the country.
“Over the past 32 years, we have witnessed some commendable transformations meant to sustain the dreams of our founding fathers. However, what our administration is doing is that, we are no longer comfortable with the incremental model because the world is fast evolving through technologies and new ways of doing things.
“We started this by laying a new foundation that would disrupt the sub-optimisation in governance. We have started doing things differently because we want a state where posterity will be kind to us. We want a state where our children will judge us fairly. We want a state where poverty will be a thing of the past.
“We understand that these are not going to be easy, but with your support, and our commitment to our governance philosophy, I can say we will get there faster than ever imagined.
“We have made consequential statements on security and backed them with action to guarantee investment inflow. And we will not rest on our oars until the last atom of threat to our people’s peace and security is escorted out of the state,” the statement read in parts.
The governor wished the people of Enugu State a happy 32nd anniversary.
