From David Onwuchekwa, Nnewi
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra has said it is set to push the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) out of Government House, Awka, in 2017, when the next governorship election will hold in the state.
PDP Organising Secretary in the state, Prince Samben Nwosu, during an inaugural meeting of the party’s executive council of Nnewi North Local Government Area, disclosed this yesterday.
He noted that the PDP, in a move to actualise the dream of taking over Anambra in the next election has reconciled factions in the party to become a united big family under one strong indivisible umbrella. Nwosu explained that Anambra is primarily a PDP state, adding that APGA in power merely capitalised on crisis and fractionalisation which rocked the PDP in the past. I am happy to inform you that every shade of interest has been taken care of in the newly constituted and inaugurated executive council which has automatically taken care of issues of our party splitting into many factions, as a result of that, many of our members who are on sabbatical in other political parties have started discussing with us to facilitate their return,” he explained
The PDP organising secretary said another factor that would help the party regain power in Anambra State was what he called colossal failure of the incumbent the APGA government to address the issue of power, roads and infrastructure especially in the industrial town of Nnewi, the headquarters of Anambra South senatorial zone.
“I was shocked to hear that Governor, Chief Willie Obiano came to Nnewi and flagged off street lighting project of an individual, to make matter worse, the so called street lights are on roads that are not motorable. So of what purpose is a street light on a bad road?” Prince Nwosu queried.
He noted that Nnewi which is popularly called the Japan of Africa because of the cluster of individually owned manufacturing firms and companies in the town was generating a whooping sum of N400 million a month for government’s Internally Generated Revenue(IGR) in 2004 and deserved a better deal with the government.
He said it was only an irresponsible government that would not consider putting up enabling environment for such people to continue to actualize their potentials. “But then the failure of APGA is the gain of PDP because it is now a common knowledge among the good people of the State that they need a credible alternative to a government that is only working on billboards, PDP will give them that alternative.” He stressed.
The inaugural meeting of Nnewi North local government area of PDP was attended by lawmakers, party stalwarts and industrialists.