OKEY EZEA TELLS GOV. CHIME TO STOP BUYING VEHICLES AND PROPERTIES FOR CONCUBINES
Chief Okey Ezea, an erudite maritime lawyer and shipping mogul, is a governorship aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State. He spoke briefly on his ambition with journalists shortly after submitting his nomination form at the APC National Secretariat, Abuja. Enjoy it.

Enugu PDP has zoned its governorship ticket to Enugu North where you hail from. Can you beat the PDP candidate, if given the APC ticket?
I am very much prepared for this battle. I have gone through the battle before and I know that the PDP is not as popular as people claim in Enugu State and in Igboland generally. The problem is that they have always excelled on the platform of not credible elections in our state. The PDP banks on rigging and on writing of results and over time, we have known their gimmicks and we are prepared to match them and we are also relying on the promises made by the INEC that this time around, we are going to have Biometric accreditation and that will enhance the credibility of the elections in terms of reaching out to grassroots. Everybody wants change in Enugu state. They want a change from non accountability; they want a change corruption, they also want a change from the suffering of the people. All our youths are not employed, our children school under the Mongo trees, our hospital do not exist and somebody say there is government in Enugu state. There is no government in Enugu for a long time.

What are those things that you are bringing on board?
What I am bringing on board is change in every aspect of life. We are introducing free education to the state; we are going to introduce medical care to the aged, children and pregnant women. We are going to bring about policies that will enhance job creation for our young men, because there are many institutions in Enugu state producing thousands of many young men and women who do not get employed, meanwhile PDP government is busy squandering billions of Naira that come to the state. From our last analysis of allocation, Enugu state supposed to have collected about N544 billion in the last eight years and there is nothing to show for it. If you check papers today, they are talking of bad roads in many part of the state.

How do you intend to finance these projects when you come into office?
The tragedy of government in Nigeria is that people just sit down on their chairs and waits for federal allocation to come. Governors and the policy makers should wear their thinking cap and begin to talk of how to generate revenue through investment that is regenerative, not tax the people and making the life more difficult for the people by going to impose tax on somebody riding motorcycle. The governor should tackle the leakages in the system and stop buying vehicles and the properties for concubines alone. It would bring down the expenses of government and they will have more money to attend to the needs.

How visible is the APC in Enugu state?
You cannot underrate the APC in Enugu State. I want to tell you that the propaganda from the state governor that there is no opposition party in Enugu is only on the pages of Newspapers. I personally have ran the opposition party in Enugu state in the last eight years, I contested under the Labour Party (LP) in 2007 and defeated Sullivan Chime, and I have continue to maintain our position that we do accept the policies and practices of the PDP in Enugu state. We are all over the place and our structure is on the ground.

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OKEY EZEA TELLS GOV. CHIME TO STOP BUYING VEHICLES AND PROPERTIES FOR CONCUBINES
Chief Okey Ezea, an erudite maritime lawyer and shipping mogul, is a governorship aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State. He spoke briefly on his ambition with journalists shortly after submitting his nomination form at the APC National Secretariat, Abuja. Enjoy it.

Enugu PDP has zoned its governorship ticket to Enugu North where you hail from. Can you beat the PDP candidate, if given the APC ticket?
I am very much prepared for this battle. I have gone through the battle before and I know that the PDP is not as popular as people claim in Enugu State and in Igboland generally. The problem is that they have always excelled on the platform of not credible elections in our state. The PDP banks on rigging and on writing of results and over time, we have known their gimmicks and we are prepared to match them and we are also relying on the promises made by the INEC that this time around, we are going to have Biometric accreditation and that will enhance the credibility of the elections in terms of reaching out to grassroots. Everybody wants change in Enugu state. They want a change from non accountability; they want a change corruption, they also want a change from the suffering of the people. All our youths are not employed, our children school under the Mongo trees, our hospital do not exist and somebody say there is government in Enugu state. There is no government in Enugu for a long time.

What are those things that you are bringing on board?
What I am bringing on board is change in every aspect of life. We are introducing free education to the state; we are going to introduce medical care to the aged, children and pregnant women. We are going to bring about policies that will enhance job creation for our young men, because there are many institutions in Enugu state producing thousands of many young men and women who do not get employed, meanwhile PDP government is busy squandering billions of Naira that come to the state. From our last analysis of allocation, Enugu state supposed to have collected about N544 billion in the last eight years and there is nothing to show for it. If you check papers today, they are talking of bad roads in many part of the state.

How do you intend to finance these projects when you come into office?
The tragedy of government in Nigeria is that people just sit down on their chairs and waits for federal allocation to come. Governors and the policy makers should wear their thinking cap and begin to talk of how to generate revenue through investment that is regenerative, not tax the people and making the life more difficult for the people by going to impose tax on somebody riding motorcycle. The governor should tackle the leakages in the system and stop buying vehicles and the properties for concubines alone. It would bring down the expenses of government and they will have more money to attend to the needs.

How visible is the APC in Enugu state?
You cannot underrate the APC in Enugu State. I want to tell you that the propaganda from the state governor that there is no opposition party in Enugu is only on the pages of Newspapers. I personally have ran the opposition party in Enugu state in the last eight years, I contested under the Labour Party (LP) in 2007 and defeated Sullivan Chime, and I have continue to maintain our position that we do accept the policies and practices of the PDP in Enugu state. We are all over the place and our structure is on the ground.

From: http://tectono..com/

This is cheap politics sire, is there any government that can boast of full employment of youths or is it the case that you are saying no single Indigene of Enugu who is a youth is employed ?