Obiano, Nwoye attack Ngige strongholds

By Emmanuel Aziken & Vincent Ujumadu

The APGA and PDP candidates, Willie Obiano and Tony Nwoye, are going into the last week of the election with strong attacks on the bases of the APC candidate, Chris Ngige.

Ngige at the weekend lost one of his past consistent supporters, a businessman and prominent son of Ogidi in Idemili North local government area, Chief Samuel Anyanwutaku, (Omeokachie Ogidi). He had in the past strongly backed Ngige in his past election quests. Nwoye on the other hand stole at least 10,000 supporters of the APC candidate who were aligned with disenchanted APC chieftain, Senator Annie Okonkwo.

The Okonkwo supporters at the weekend pledged support to Nwoye, the PDP candidate in a ceremony at Senator Okonkwo’s headquarters in Awka.

Speaking at the event, one of the leaders of the group from Nnewi South Hon Uchenna Okafor said that they were tired of the lies and deceits of APC and have therefore decided to support for the PDP following the recognition of Nwoye as the PDP candidate.

Comrade Nwoye and his entourage according to a statement by his campaign office, arrived the campaign office of Senator Annie Okonkwo exactly by 11.20am and were welcomed with drums; music and fanfare. They were immediately ushered in by the organisers of the event with directive from Senator Annie Okonkwo.

Ngige chides Obi’s economic record

APC candidate, Senator Chris Ngige has flayed Governor Peter Obi over what he claimed as his inept management of the state’s economic resources.

Ngige in a statement issued by his campaign office accused Governor Obi of failing to raise the state’s internally generated revenue beyond
N600 million monthly in over eight years. In a statement issued by Mr. Toni Icheku on behalf of the campaign office, Ngige said: ‘’It is either that Gov. Obi has not told Anambrarians the conduit through which our monies are being siphoned or the non-growth of the IGR is due to his economic ineptitude.”

The governorship candidate who described the non-growth of the IGR by the Obi administration as shocking and a thing of shame explained that he raised Anambra’s IGR from N50 million to N450 within 33 months.

Ngige further lamented that the Obi administration had treated civil servants shabbily arguing that Gov. Obi’s monthly security vote of N500 million is bogus, as other relevant sectors were left unattended to and promised that his administration would be financially prudent, transparent and creative.

Ngige specifically described as shameful the fact that the Obi administration had failed to implement the minimum wage legislation as Anambra State pays the least wage among in the country. I will use the scale of relativity to implement the minimum wage that will be acceptable to all cadres of civil servants in the state”

He maintained that civil servants as soldiers of any government deserve better treatment and explained that the Minimum wage based on a scale of relativity implies that those receiving less than N18,500/month must have a percentage of the minimum wage as salary.

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