Abia APC intensifies drive to mobilise voters
The Abia State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, has intensified its mobilisation drive across the state by deploying officials to 184 wards to locate voters and prospective members. The aim is to enlighten members to believe in the party’s message of the liberation of Abia from mal-administration, which has plagued over the past two decades.
According to the Leader of Abia APC, Chief Ikechi Emenike, who gave an address, the enormous task ahead required that the party be alive, visible and competitive in every ward in the state.
At Nkpa in Bende Local Government of the state, the Abia APC messengers of hope comprise of the chairman, secretary and organising secretary from each of the 184 Abia wards, the local government party chairman, secretary and organising secretary from each of the 17 Local councils and the members of the State Executive Committee, SEC.
Emenike said that Abia is APC, but the party had in the previous election cycles found itself in the hands of leaders who didn’t believe in the party; hence they traded off its electoral fortunes and confined the party to opposition.
Emenike, the Secretary of the APC Contact Strategy Committee, charged the enthusiastic party officials to go out and mobilise “all decent and patriotic” Abia people to join the APC as the party has now returned to the people after the recently concluded 2021 congress.
“Don’t shut the door against anybody; the party is open to everybody; hence nobody should be denied the opportunity to join the family of progressives,” he counselled.
He warned that any party official at the ward, local government or state level that tried to block a prospective member would receive a sanction.
Party chieftains and elders were on hand to encourage the party officials and prepare them for the task ahead, including Hon Nkiruka Onyejeocha, Barr. Friday Nwosu, Prof Okezie Abarikwu, Engr. Chris Okpechi, Dr Kingsley Ononogbu, Prof Obike Ibegbulam and Dr. Bob Uwaga.
Others include Major Chinedu Abraham, AIG Ogbonna, retd, Grant Nwogu, Hon Emeka Okoroafor, and Hon Nwogo N. Nwogu.
Speakers at the party event all expressed sadness at Abia’s parlous state of affairs and the need for Ndi Abia to wake up from their apparent slumber to rescue their beloved state from “the devouring locusts.”
The host, Dr Ononogbu, said that Abia can no longer afford to remain in its PDP- induced state of coma, adding that 2023 would be a watershed in the state’s life with all well-meaning Abians joining hands to save their state.
The State Women Leader of the party, Hon Chino Elondu, charged Abia APC members to sit up and work with total commitment to ensure that Emenike gets the mandate to rebuild the state.
Suzan O./NAN
