Anambra governorship: PPA candidate promises to link up Awka North communities

The candidate of the Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) in the Anambra governorship election, Godwin Ezeemo, has told the people of Awka North that he will link all the communities in the area if elected as the governor of the state come November 18.
Speaking at Achalla in Awka North Local Government Area during his familiarization tour, Ezeemo promised that the first six months of his government would be dedicated to ensuring that the link road that joins all the communities of Awka North would be built to world standard.
He expressed dismay over what he described as government neglect of the area by marking it as well as other parts of the state as forest.
While his motorcade struggled through the near impassable terrain in Awka North and had to pass through several other local governments to connect from one community to another, Ezeemo lamented that it was an act of wickedness by the past and present governments to deny the people of the area of good roads, the most basic infrastructure, even when the resources to provide them were available.
According to the candidate, “How can an ex-governor tell us that that he left N40 billion in cash while leaving office when we have such pressing needs like linking up sister communities in Awka North with good roads which will facilitate socio-economic development in the area and ultimately in the state?
“How can the present government be proud to spend billions of naira on high quality billboards, endorsements and posters for a second term when the same money was enough to build the long neglected link roads in Awka North, a more effective way of winning the heart of the people to vote him in for a second tenure?
In his response, Igwe Nwokedi, who was the Chief Press Secretary to former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1978, while appreciating Ezeemo’s candid observation, revealed that he spent his days during the Nigerian Civil war in Aguata, Ezeemo’s local government and that Aguata people left a good impression on him?
According to the monarch, “Umuchu people are good people; very decent, humane, genuine people who are highly controlled by their nature, and I believe that Ezeemo will behave like his people,” he said.