In 2015, then incoming Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, identified industrialization as one of the pillars of his administration with the objective of creating jobs, improving the economy and increasing internally generated revenue of the state.

To build this Pillar of Develoment, Dr Ikpeazu applied a 3-pronged strategy to deliver on industrialization:

1. Support resuscitation of moribund industries in the state.

This strategy has helped companies like Golden Guinea Breweries to return to production after decades of being closed. More than 1,000 direct and indirect jobs have been restored and created and our people are once again enjoying their favorite beverages.

2. Build new industries

When Governor Ikpeazu dispatched 30 young Abians to China to be trained on automated shoe making, his intention was to move the gargatuan shoe production business in Aba from manually operated to machine supported mass production. When the team returned, Governor Ikpeazu followed up by ensuring importation of the equipment they trained with in China and thereafter established Abia’s first ever automated shoe making factory called Enyimba Automated Shoe Company (ENASCO) with the 30 young Abians becoming the drivers.

ENASCO is already mass producing shoes for institutions like the Nigeria Railway Corporation and is set to also produce for the Nigeria Police and other military and para military organizations in the country that hitherto imported their footwears at great cost to our forex.

Recently, Governor Ikpeazu flagged off the construction of Enyimba Automated Garment Factory to drive mass production of clothing and fashion apparels in the state. It will be recalled that early in his administration the Governor traveled to Turkey, Bangladesh and Thailand with some Aba tailors to expose them to automation driven mass production.

In addition, the government established five cottage rice milling industries in the state and is currently establishing 17 agro-allied industries in all the local governments of the state. Each local government is getting industries that reflect their competitive edge in agriculture with some having palm processing industries while others are benefiting from cassava processing industries.

Meanwhile, Governor Ikpeazu proliferated four million high yielding tenera specie palm seedlings across the state as well as established the first poultry cluster to train and equip young Abians who are interested in poultry farming.

3. Encourage foreign direct investment

When Governor Ikpeazu deliberately moved to make the state friendly to foreign investors and traveled to global economic capitals to make the case for investment in Abia, many of his opponents laughed it off as “junketing”. Yet, the Governor was not deterred and went ahead to put in place security, good infrastructure and other enablers that would attract foreign investors to the state.

The efforts of the Governor are yielding dividends with the state rated as the 3rd favorite destination of choice for foreign investments in 2020 as rated by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), also with many new multi-national outfits opening shops in Aba after decades of avoiding or fleeing from the state.

Steel giants, Inner Galaxy are producing and exporting from Aba while Nibra Shoe of Brazil is actively constructing a new factory in the state. Other international brands are still investing in the state to tap into the wealth creation agenda of Dr Ikpeazu.

Recently, a man who was displaced from a northern state and forced to return to the south east found himself in Aba. In no time, he was able to settle his family, rebuild his business and is in his own words “doing better” than before. Even the streets of Aba are bustling to the brim with many new businesses opening up almost on a daily basis thereby already putting pressure on available infrastructure. In response, however, Governor Ikpeazu has accelerated and given new impetus to his infrastructure development agenda under his popular “Kinetic Abia” program and recently vowed to double his record setting 108 completed road projects in the state before the end of his tenure in 2023. He is creating new industrial clusters including at Ovom and Umukalika and working with Geometric Power Ltd to ensure the roll out of steady power supply in 9 of 17 LGAs of the state to support rapid industrialization.

These and much more are what is making Ikpeazu's Abia thick!

Expect more.

- Chief John Okiyi Kalu

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Ikpeazụ is one of the best performing governor just that media is against him

Truly ikpeazu, the lazy drunkard ngwa man that kind develop or even pay his ngwa clans their salary.

The igbo mod on duty should move this thread to the comedy section where it rightly belongs.

Ikpeaze will top the chart of the 3 worse governor since 1999 effortlessly. A man born to fail till eternity.

Northernblood:
Ikpeazụ is one of the best performing governor just that media is against him

pricklewane:
The igbo mod on duty should fun this thread to the. Comedy section where it right belongs.

Ikpeaze will top the chart of the top 3 worse governor since 1999 effortlessly. A man born to fail till eternity.

Just keep shut ...ikpeazu is performing better than at least 15 governors in Nigeria
Osun , cross river ,kwara , ekiti , bayelsa , Delta , niger , benue , kogi , nassarawa , jos , taraba ,sokoto ,yobe ,zamfara ,kebbi , I can keep naming

pricklewane:
The igbo mod on duty should fun this thread to the. Comedy section where it right belongs.

Ikpeaze will top the chart of the top 3 worse governor since 1999 effortlessly. A man born to fail till eternity.

I don't take Benin IDP campees seriously

And I was here thinking he did beta than all of them put together but you fools claim Sawnolu isn't doing anything but looting for Tinubu how come his name is not on your list of governors Ikpeazu is doing beta than ?!

Igbochief001:

Just keep shut ...ikpeazu is performing better than at least 15 governors in Nigeria
Osun , cross river ,kwara , ekiti , bayelsa , Delta , niger , benue , kogi , nassarawa , jos , taraba ,sokoto ,yobe ,zamfara ,kebbi , I can keep naming

The way he is examining the beer, they even dashed him a crate.

Igbochief001:

Just keep shut ...ikpeazu is performing better than at least 15 governors in Nigeria
Osun , cross river ,kwara , ekiti , bayelsa , Delta , niger , benue , kogi , nassarawa , jos , taraba ,sokoto ,yobe ,zamfara ,kebbi , I can keep naming

You forgot to add ogun
That one doesn't even have a governor

pricklewane:

My brother
I think you should be more worried about ogun
Infrastructure decay there is worse than
Anywhere in the world,
Am yet to see a place with more bad roads than ota and Co,
I don't also think there's any other places that has more Brown roofs and looks more ancient than abeokuta (maybe only Ibadan and ekit)
What surprises me is the high IGR they have there
(I believe Lagos State should maybe takeover ogun as a whole because the state is so messy)