2019: Ebonyi South APC urges stakeholders to support zone’s second term bid

The Ebonyi South Zone of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on stakeholders and party faithful in other zones to support its second term completion bid, a move it said would restore its dignity and redeem its image as good, respectful and hospitable people.

Stakeholders of Ebonyi South Senatorial zone of the party made the appeal at a meeting held on Sunday, at Bombay Hotel in Akaeze, in Ivo Local Government Area of the state.

In a document circulated shortly after the meeting, which was obtained by our correspondent, the party stalwarts in the zone delved into the historical and political antecedents that had, prior to the creation of the state bound both the Abakaliki Bloc and the Old Afikpo Division together.

According to them, “If this appeal is adhered to, it will heal frayed nerves, disappoint our detractors who want us to be disunited and also go a long way to satisfying the dreams and aspirations of our respected party leaders, who have on several occasions, unequivocally, stated that, only, with a united front, shall we bring down the incumbent in spite of our overwhelming membership and followership”.

The document read in part, “Whereas, the political democratic process that commenced in the state in 1999, produced a Governor from the North Senatorial Zone of the state and ran uninterruptedly for a period of eight years, covering first and second tenures, unencumbered, from 1999 to 2007.

“Whereas the Central Senatorial Zone of the state either by human arrangement or providence, enabled them to enjoy their first and second tenures, unencumbered, from 2007 to 2015.

“And whereas, it is now the turn of the South Senatorial Zone of the state to enjoy their own turn without any brinkmanship or torpedo”.

It further said, “By corollary, politics being like a game, could be likened to a Football match where the first and second tenures of 8 years, could equal to the first and second halves of 90 minutes of play and when, a particular player is adjudged not to be playing well, it is the team that produced that player that would produce a replacement.

“The Ebonyi South Senatorial Zone, we must admit, has produced a bad player. We are anxious to replace him with a better player, in order to restore our dignity and redeem our image.

Briefing our correspondent further on the outcome of the meeting, the Financial Secretary of the APC in Ebonyi State, Comrade Okenwa Uka, said the parley gave stakeholders of the zone the opportunity to deliberate on the need to use the window provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) extension of permanent voters card (PVC) registration exercise, to get numerous Ebonyians longing to join the party, to come on board.