From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Onitsha
The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and governorship aspirant in the November 18 Anambra State election, Barth Nwibe, has promised to resuscitate ailing industries.
He also said he would make the state-owned Orient Petroleum and Gas Company more viable, to generate more revenue and create job opportunities for the teeming youths of the state, if elected governor of the state.
Nwibe, said Anambra needed somebody that would continue where former governors Chris Ngige and Peter Obi stopped in the areas of infrastructural development and provision of quality education.
He disclosed this at the weekend, during the Correspondents’ Forum of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State chapter, where he described defectors to APC in the state for the purpose of contesting the November 18 poll as ‘food is ready politicians.’
“Chris Ngige’s administration started with road infrastructure, modernising schools, initiated the process of handing them over to mission schools, resuscitated and accredited most of the government hospitals.
“Peter Obi came and continued in that vein, attracted some industries and supported them, brought Orient Oil and supported them to be called oil and gas state, supported Innoson Company to provide vehicles for our traditional rulers. I think we need to change leadership in this state and the question is ‘what kind of leadership do we want and who is going to be that leader,’
I think I am that leader,” he said .