NUMBERS DON'T LIE (PREAMBLE)

Join me as we countdown to Governor Ikpeazu's 3years anniversary in office as Governor of Abia State, let's review together his Words, Works and Wins.

1.) Governor Ikpeazu fought more than 3 rancorous litigations against him by his major opponent in the 2015 election, and two others who never contested in the election but were so desperate to govern Abia State by hook or by crook, deploying all forms of inanities and illegalities with the ultimate but puerile aim of arm twisting the judiciary into truncating the people’s will and mandate as freely and fairly given to Ikpeazu as governor of Abia State.

2.) Under Ikpeazu’s watch, Abia State has maintained 1st position in WAEC and NECO examinations for 3 years consecutively as a result of increased monitoring and enhancement of private and public sector educational resources.
To motivate our teachers for better performance in our schools, Governor Ikpeazu donated cars to best performing teachers from the 3 zones and also built staff quarters at Umuahia.

3.) Abia State under Governor Ikpeazu adminstration is pioneering 3 Innovative educational and human capacity building program simultaneously:
(i.) launched the Education for Employment (E4E) scheme that has already produced 472 graduates with relevant skills in ICT, at Phase 1. Phase 2 of the program which is aimed at training 36,000 unemployed Abians in different skills has commenced at the Multi Skill acquisition facility at Umuobiakwa in Obingwa LGA.
(ii.) In partnership with Dangote group, a modern job center is under construction at Isiala Ngwa.
(iii.) To further enhance the capacity and productivity of Abia teachers, the administration is partnering with Australian education solution providers to retrain them and enhance teaching efficiency. More than 800 teachers have benefited from this program.
A new teachers training facility has been opened at Umuahia to ensure continuous training of primary and secondary school teachers.
In consideration of the current socio-economic situation in the country, the government reduced tuition fees at ABSU, Abiapoly and College of Education Arochukwu to support Abia parents and guardians.
Abia’s homegrown free school feeding program was launched in 2015 and currently ongoing across the state. Abia State, under Ikpeazu, is the only state in the federation providing food for primary one to six school pupils. (TO BE CONTINUED... WATCH THIS SPACE)

~ Gabriel Aguwa Paul