The outing, which has been tagged a ‘mega rally’, promises to be an eye-opener to other parties and candidates in the forthcoming governorship election. Ubah’s home-town, Nnewi, Awka, Nkpor, Ogidi, Onitsha and other neighbouring towns, including Asaba, have already been bubbling in the last few days as virtually all the hotels were said to have been fully booked. Eateries and souvenirs sellers have also been busy with new stocks and designs.
It was discovered that airlines that hitherto operated only one or two daily flights to and from Asaba, Owerri and Enugu airports have made special arrangements to accommodate more flights at the three airports for the week because of the “Ifeanyi Ubah magic.”
The state chairman of LP, Chief Sam Oraegbunam and the party’s member in the House of Assembly, Emeka Anohu, described Ubah as “a political enigma, resourceful, active and energetic world citizen.”
In introducing him, the chairman said “we are bringing out a very youthful, energetic, resourceful and successful young man who has already made his mark in the world, not just in Anambra and Nigeria. He is the quality material we are bringing to transform Anambra State; to give the state and her residents the desired and required leadership it has lacked in the past 19 years of existence.”
Oraegbunam said he would like to see a sweeping victory at the polls for him as he displays unassailable credentials in most areas currently troubling the nation today, including industrialisation, job creation, philanthropy and transformation of social infrastructure. He, therefore, wants Ubah’s administration, if elected, to focus his first one hundred days in office on tackling insecurity, youth unemployment and revive the education, agriculture and health sectors as well as embark on massive social infrastructure renewal that, according to him, have been neglected to rot and decay completely by successive administrations in the state.
Anohu said the LP administration would be the greatest value added to the lives and existence of the citizens of the state.
He reiterated that Governor Mimiko has continued to cart away awards after awards by various world bodies who have literally adopted him as the yardstick for what Millennium Development Goal (MDG) should be. Mimiko’s examples have been documented as the standard now being exported to other developed and developing nations. The lawmaker said that is what the Ubah’s midas touch has come to unleash on the state.
Ubah had noted that with an experienced and widely travelled medical doctor, Emeka Eze, a scion of the Eze N’Ukpo Dynasty, as his running mate, they would synergise ideas with other equally well-meaning citizens to take the state to the next level in a record time.
Ubah said he was very contented that God transformed him from his parents’ native thatch house, near penury to a level that ranks among the best among his peers.
He said he clearly understands the challenges facing most households in a state where good inter-connectivity roads, jobs, potable water, healthcare, agriculture, electricity, sanitation and proper planning are clearly non-existent, because he had been there.
Ubah said with the LP administration in power, every citizen would be part of governance and leadership in the state because everyone has some useful contributions to make always in the development and progress of the state.
His running mate, Eze, noted that “in the heat of the Boko Haram menace in the northern parts of the country when indigenes of Anambra State and environs became the only ones neglected and abandoned to their grave fate after other states had evacuated their people, it was Ubah who sent in two aircraft to airlift the surviving Anambra indigenes and others out of danger zone. He had on a number of times used his rich contacts and connections to intervene on behalf of Anambra and Igbo people anywhere in the world without prompting.”
Eze pointed out that just like Ubah stated, he had done a lot as an individual, but would do so much with the leverage of an office as a governor. He said it was the reason the LP logo remains human beings, unlike others with inanimate objects. He, therefore, urged the electorate to support and vote the LP massively for the total transformation of the state.
The state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Patrick Obianyo, appealed to the people of Anambra State to give full support to the LP so as to benefit from the transformation plans of Ubah.
Nwanyanwu said the Mimiko example in Ondo was just a tip of the iceberg to what the party is bringing to Anambra State. He said that LP would never support any form of inhuman treatment or treating any one as a second class citizen, including deportation in one’s own native country. He sees it as a terrible policy.
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