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Transportation

Energy and Mineral Resources Development

Trade Promotion

For industrialization, He intends to focus on three areas:

Manufacturing, Information technology and Financial services sector

In the second area of his plan which is job creation, he focuses on four areas too which are:

Industrialization
Trade promotion
Energy and Mineral Resource Development
Transportation

Lets look at the breakdown in those four areas:

On the first one, which is the Provision of Developmental Infrastructure, he focuses on four areas Health, Education, Security, and Agriculture.

He has a 4 point Agenda

Mission and Vision Statement

My Vision for a new Enugu by Hon Chijioke Edeoga

christejames:
Thank God there is someone like me seeing through their deceit!

christejames, I just saw a presentation your man Edeoga did where he summarised his plan.

Have you seen it?

I will upload it and let the house compare it with Peter Mbah's manifesto

0fodirinwa:
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Peter Mbah will do it.

ALTERNATEID:
Oyetola is the best governor in recent years in Nigeria looking at the way he managed the extremely poor finances of Osun state. Aregbesola accumulated so much debt and still couldn’t pay workers salaries. Oyetola did not borrow a dime, paid back some of the Aregbe debt, paid workers as at when due, did some capital projects and still left money behind for the incoming administration.

Sadly, any governor that is prudent with state resources is not always popular with the people. We prefer the governor that accumulates huge debt and share everything to political cronies and state elites. In the next four years, we shall be here God willing to do a postmortem of the Ade Dancer administration.

Hopefully, President Bola Tinubu will take this guy to Abuja as Finance minister next year. He’s an excellent financial manager. We need folks like him to manage the finances of this country in this period. Posterity will be very kind to him.

You are praising Oyetola for being frugal buy you are supporting Tinubu who is a debt monger over a Peter Obi who has common traits with Oyetola.

What is our problem in this country?

christejames:
Lol!



I just want a new and better Enugu away from the old order.

If Peter Mbah delivers 50% of what he is promising, Enugu will be the fastest-growing state in Nigeria.

He has a clear plan. Some may look unrealistic butI believe in him.

christejames:
Read this interview by Edeoga about his plans for the state... This is a man that stays in the state, he understands the state.




My Administration Will Computerise Land Ownership In Enugu – Edeoga

By Our Correspondents On Nov 25, 2022


Labour Party’s governorship candidate in Enugu State, Chijioke Edeoga, in this interview speaks on national issues bordering on insecurity, state policing and governance. He speaks on some of the things he would do differently if he emerges the next governor of Enugu State. Excerpts:

Your entrance into the politics of Enugu State has changed the dynamics. What has really changed?

What has really changed is that the people of Enugu State and Nigeria are responding positively, hopeful, and energetically to the changes that the current electoral law has brought to the process of electioneering and the process of announcing the results in such a way that the outcomes have been substantially in accordance with the people’s wishes.


The people have long agonised, worried or refused to participate because they said or knew that the outcomes usually were not in tandem with their expressed preferences; you vote one thing and the difference will be announced. It has been done so brazenly over the years. So, there has been substantial alienation, indifference, withdrawal, or contempt for the electoral process, but thanks to the current dispensation at the national level as it regards electoral law, which has been operationalised in Anambra, Ekiti, and Osun states, people have woken up to the reality of the situation or to the fact that a change has come.

Secondly, the people have had it up to their necks, and everybody can now see that tribalism will not do it for you; faith will not do it for you; and if you keep on removing yourself from the process, you keep on electing people who will govern you willy-nilly whether you like it or not. So, the convergence of the bad leadership that we have witnessed, especially in the past seven years at the federal level under General Muhammadu Buhari, and in the various states of the country, has woken the citizens to the fact that they must perform.

Thirdly, what has changed in Enugu State is that a combination of these things has conspired with fate to bring a candidate like myself, Chijioke Edeoga, who God obviously prepared for a time like this, who fate obviously prepared for a time like this, and who enjoys popular acceptance with regards to general knowledge that he is credible, that he has the cognate experience, that he is well-read, and that he has offered himself to become the torchbearer of the concerns of the concerned.

People’s wishes to decide their fate democratically have been repressed, suppressed, and outright marginalised in Enugu State. So, the opportunity presented by this new electoral law is the obvious need for change because the PDP is no longer an option and the APC is clearly worse. One is a sniper and the other is corrosive acid, corrosive acid is more dangerous than a sniper. It’s a confluence of several different factors coming from various directions, all coming together at a time when things must happen or we will perish. Change must happen, or else we are doomed. You can see the Naira is in free fall now; you can see that shops are closing, unemployment is high, and we have lost count of the unemployed or unemployable. The markets are closing, and despair and gloom are at their highest level. So we have become the torchbearers for change. That is what has changed people: the kind of people they want has come at a time when they have been empowered politically or electorally to decide their fate.

You ran for the PDP governorship ticket earlier and lost before you joined the Labour Party. People are saying that you are so desperate to be governor because you violated the pact you signed with other aspirants, to support whomever the governor anointed as the PDP governorship candidate. Can you tell Nigerians and Enugu electorates what really transpired?

I didn’t sign any pact with the governor of Enugu State. I made no agreement with anyone to give up or surrender my democratic rights to do anything legal or democratic. I didn’t sign any pact, and I am not desperate for anything. My candidacy is a response to the yearnings of Enugu State for change—change from the old order, which has clearly failed. So the fact that one was in PDP does not preclude you from having your thoughts because Jesus Christ told us to be in the world but not of the world. So one was in the PDP, but one was not touched by the numerous obvious sins of the PDP.

Your party has come under severe attacks in Enugu State. It appears to be a calculated attempt to stifle your party and frustrate your support base. Are you concerned that this is happening?

Yes, we are concerned; whatever happens to one actually happens to all. We are concerned about the increase in violence in Enugu State, particularly kidnapping. Many prominent people have been kidnapped. Former Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Dan Shere, was kidnapped recently. The most prominent people have been kidnapped. It seems kidnapping has become a daily occurrence in Enugu State. People don’t go to their farms again; there is rising hunger and disenchantment, and the farms have been occupied. My Mgbuji community’s 14 villages have been occupied for almost one year now; in Ichie, the Unado area is a no-go area. Igbo-Eze North is a no-go area, and gradually we are losing territory to herdsmen and other forms of occupants and miscreants. So, yes, there have been attacks, even in Igbo-Eze North Labour Party activity was attacked. In Nomeh, Labour Party activity was attacked. In Aninri, Labour Party activity was attacked, but I am not certain; we are working towards finding an answer, but I cannot say categorically that those things are aimed only at the Labour Party operatives, agents, or people. That is the honest response to that situation. It is worrisome; it is pervasive.

Lots of people who invested in land-property businesses have lost their investments. They have accused government officials of land racketeering and grabbing. How are you going to tackle the issue if you become governor?

We are going to computerise land administrations with the geographic information system. It is a new system that computerises land, and we are going to do it in Enugu. Kaduna State has done it, and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, has also done it. We are going to computerise land ownership in Enugu State so that at the touch of a button, all those things will be available. What has been suffocating it is the system’s inertia and corruption, which are fighting back.

So, we are going to make sure we force those changes because you have to force them a lot of the time because people don’t want them. The city of Enugu is congested already, so we are going to create other hubs around the Oji River and Nsukka. We are going to re-plan Enugu. We will properly acquire land and build outer and inner roads to decongest Enugu and reduce land racketeering unless you are a natural land racketeer.

What is your take on insecurity, and do you support the use of state police to combat the country’s ferocious insecurity?


I subscribe to the state police outfit. It is a tenet of federalism. It is a core tenet of federalism, state police, and community police. You don’t have to be afraid to take steps; once problems begin to arise, you begin to address them. The Central Police has failed us, and it has become mismanaged. The Central Police is run with a lot of insensitivity and is almost arrogant and contemptuous of the feelings of the federating units. You can’t have, for instance, an Igbo man going to Kirikasamma, Birniwa, Malam Mandoni, or Guri in Jigawa State, and you said he’s going to police; what is he going to police there? Or have him in different parts of Katsina State or the innermost part of Zamfara. He doesn’t understand the nuances, he doesn’t understand the culture, he doesn’t understand the interplay of forces, and he is there, so what can you police? You don’t understand all the dialects. What is he doing there? Policing? No.

If it is the federal police and he is involved in forensics, fingerprints, or monitoring, then if he monitors, he gives the outcome to the state police or local police for effectiveness, so we must have levels of police in Nigeria.

We need the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be involved in interstate crimes involving blood, blood testing, forensics, pictures, data, or photographs, such as data from DNA reports or facials; that is what the FBI should be doing; they should be the coordinator of state activities. The state police should be handling local issues. If you commit a crime within Enugu State, Enugu police will be on the scene; however, if you commit a crime in Anambra and cross into Enugu or in Enugu and cross into Benue, it becomes a federal offence, and federal police will descend on you; they will be properly trained, better equipped, and better remunerated. Kidnapping, once committed in your state, is a federal crime by definition, a state crime by definition, and a local crime by definition.

We must have a police force that is properly trained, properly oriented, properly remunerated, and properly equipped in accordance with those localities. So, the state police are inevitable, and to delay them or deny them is just being funny and mischievous.

Nigerians are afraid that if we have state police, the governors will hijack and abuse it. Is that not a genuine concern?

Yes, it has its challenges, but those things must exist to tackle the challenges. Let them come first, and if the governors begin to abuse them, as I am sure they will, may, or have in the past, we will say in other countries, “How do you curb the excesses of police supervising authorities? If there are clashes between local police and federal police, the law will come to moderate their relationships.”

If, for instance, governance becomes too high handed with regard to state police, then you insist on a one-term governorship.

You and this your Edeoga

IGBOSON1:
So the Enugu thread is just reaching the scary 666 milestone? Imo and Anambra threads reached it years ago….admittedly with the help of numbskulls posting a lot of rubbish! That aside, there really isn’t much going on in Enugu these past 7+ years to get people excited!

So, we should be quarreling, insulting each other, posting wedding and funeral ceremonies to generate nairaland traffic

Barrack Junction Axis

OBECHARA JUNCTION

OFULONU JUNCTION.

BEACH JUNCTION: Linking Ibagwa Road, Obollo ROad, Catherine Rest house road and Behind Flat

ODENIGBO ROUNDABOUT

ORBA ROAD......

TOTAL ROUNDABOUT: Linking Enugu Road, Odenigbo, GRA and University Road

IKENGA Junction: You can see the popular Ikenga Hotel

Umuakashi Industrial Layout: Housing Wilson Group of Companies makers of Bestie Noodles, Solive oil and others

SOME BEAUTIFUL SHOTS OF NSUKKA, ENUGU 2nd LARGEST CITY

Source: Lazarus Chidera

Enugu Road: Nsukka's busiest road housing Ogige Market, Bishop Shanahan Hospital, St. Theresa Cathedral, 6 commercial banks, and many others...

Labour Party has appealed the judgement.

XerXerz:
Stop spewing nonsense. There's a reason enugu has the highest poverty rate in Southern Nigeria despite haven been one of the oldest states in Nigeria. Have you thought of that?

Enugu has the lowest GDP is Southern Nigeria and it is very shameful for a state that has benefited so much during regional administration. Even Ebonyi has better economic outlook than enugu state.

Soludo didn't ban casino, betting, etc, he suspended their activities due to sharp practices towards consumers so they can be better regulated. That's what a sane government does.

The next administration in enugu state must get its act right in fighting poverty that's ravaging the state, water scarcity due to the terrain, low GDP, low IGR, infrastructure deficit, etc. Also the government should promote industrialization of the state so that capital will remain in the state. Most local home used products are brought from neighbouring states.

Enugu state needs a technocrat, not a businessman man that has so much corruption cases on him. So he will loot state funds to settle his bank debts, etc

Who do you consider a technocrat?

Edeoga ?

Lolz, why do you even prefer him to Mbah?

XerXerz:
Enugu does tax system is archaic and the government uses touts, cultists, drug addicts, agberos, corruption, etc to chase people around for tax, that's why enugu state has low IGR and also has very low GDP. Enugu should copy Soludo's model in Anambra where tax collection is driven by technology and well trained personnel. MBA is an efcc customer being prosecuted for frauds. Enugu should go for a technocrat in the mold of Soludo if they ever want to get it right with governance, if not another gburu gburu will enter to rule the state backward.

This is not true.

Enugu has the best tax collection system in the southeast. The tax system is driven by technology powered by Byteworks.

There is this misconception many people have about tax and that is the belief that the informal sector (markets, parks, etc) can contribute substantially to IGR. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

This is the reason Enugu despite being a civil service and service industry-driven economy has always generated more IGR than others in the southeast with their multi-billion dollar open markets.

Take Lagos for instance, over 60% of its IGR is from PAYE.

What this means is that the more quality jobs you are able to create, the more you are assured of consistent tax that is even easier to collect.

Any governor that wants to improve IGR in Enugu must drive large-scale industralization and Investment in Enugu.

This is the only path to increasing IGR, not the abracadabra that Soludo is doing by regulating casinos, taxing kekes and taxing people for pasting obituaries.

Pinnacle Petroleum Limited today commissioned its $1 billion tank farm in Ibeje Lekki.

President Muhhamadu Buhari delivered the keynote address at the event.

Pinnacle is owned by Peter Mbah, PDP Gubernatorial candidate for Enugu State,

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Cc:
Digitron.


Looking @ his profile, I think Mba has what it takes.. this guy has managed & succeeded in the private sector. Increasing IGR is good but I hope he's not planning to copy Anambra model of heavy taxation mixed with thugs/touts/agberos. This is where I have my doubts cox he's coming from ebeano clan known 4 violence, thugs, intimidation & corruption.

Yeah, he is the best prepared among all the contestants.

I heard he has been prepared for this job as far back as 2007.

He understands what he wants to do. The challenge is cultural sentiments, his affiliation with Ebeano group, perceived poor performance by Ugwuanyi administration and the ragging Obi/LP tsunami may stand in his way.

christejames:
The boggus claim of moving the GDP from 4b to 30b dollars is just a big ruse


What is the present GDP of Enugu State.



Mbah is just too fake and he can't hide it.

Why do you think it is impossible to achieve?

He has the contact to make Enugu the preferred location for investment in Nigeria.

I believe he is the best prepared for the job