There was wild jubilation in Ukehe, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area and in Lejja, Nsukka Local Government Area, yesterday, when the Enugu State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Enugu North Senatorial District, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, visited the two communities to witness the presentation of Christmas gifts to widows and the less privileged by his Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Nnanyelugo Chidi Aroh and a member of the Governing Council of the Federal University of Technology, Abeokuta, Mr. Patrick Onyema Omeke, a legal practitioner.
Ugwuanyi who received loud ovation from the people of the communities on arrival, got their endorsements to represent Enugu North Senatorial District in the National Assembly in 2023 in recognition of his commitment to peace and good governance as well as his passion for charity, almsgiving and the wellbeing of the less privileged in the society.
In Ukehe, the Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Aroh, disclosed that Ugwuanyi had been supporting the widows’ empowerment programme even before he became governor, adding that the event was in line with the governor’s long-held policy of sharing with the needy and the less privileged.
Aroh revealed that the provision of Christmas gift items comprising 2,000 bags of 50kg rice, 2,000 bags of 25kg rice, 2,000 bags of 10kg rice, 1,400 pieces of wrappers, 200 cartons of tomatoes, and 200 bags of salt, for the widows, was made possible because of the support that Governor Ugwuanyi has been giving him and his entire family.
Speaking in an emotion-laden voice, the commissioner on behalf of his father, Igwe Chijioke Aroh and the entire family members expressed immense gratitude to the governor for his love and kindness, stressing that it is only God that could pay him back.
Aroh informed the governor that the women of Ukehe, who came out en masse, asked him not to bother to come and campaign in the community as they had resolved to deliver him for Senate, the PDP governorship candidate in the state, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah for governor, Rt. Hon. Dr. Martins Oke for the House of Representatives and other candidates of the PDP in the state.