From Chijioke Agwu, Abakaliki
Chairman of Afikpo South local government area of Ebonyi state, Dr. Eni Uduma-Chima, has applauded the state Governor,Chief David Umahi, for accepting calls to join the race for Presidency in 2023.
While commending the Governor for heading the calls of Nigerians to come and replicate what he has done in Ebonyi state at the national level, he described him as a leader with requisite sagacity and administrative adroitness to put an end to regional agitations by fostering real time unity and sense of belonging to all the ethic nationalities in the country.
He assured that the Governor will replicate the unity, peace and development in Ebonyi across the country if given the opportunity to govern the country.
Chima who stated this while addressing journalits in Abakaliki called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to give it’s presidential ticket to Governor Umahi to lead the party to victory.
He described Umahi as a pan-Nationalist, youthful and detribalised Nigeria who has the Midas touch to transform the country.
He said  “Governor David Nweze Umahi has shown a practical example of what he can do in Nigeria by the so many achievements he has made in Ebonyi State. He has transformed Ebonyi State from dust of the Nation as many who passed the once bumby dusty roads of Ebonyi will in derision refer Ebonyi as , to the salt of the Nation where an excellent  taste of unprecedented quantity and quality of infrastructure is brought to practical manifestations among which are over one thousand kilometres of concrete roads, two dozens of magnificent Fly-Over Bridges, some measuring as much as 600 metres, a World Class Airport,  13 Units of General Hospitals, one located in each Local Government Area, new Emergency Unit Building at the Federal Teaching Hospital , with 1000 beds capacity, King David University of Medical Sciences, a World Class University with capacity for organs transplant,  brand new Government House with the complete ancillaries and appurtenances of a Government House, Governor’s Lodge, Governor’s Office, Executive Council Chamber, Presidential Lodge, Government House  Chapel, internal roads e.t.c  so many other projects  are completed like the  20,000 shops International  Market , three  Modern Rice Mills of metric tonnes  capacity  each, some projects are on-going , for example, University of Aeronautics Engineering, Ezza,  University of Information and Communication Technology, Izzi,  the Industry for Production of Limestone Granules at Okpoto,  the new Stadium Complex, Abakaliki, e.t.c under Umahi, Ebonyi witnessed  a revolution  in Rural Electrification and Ornamental and Street Lights , prompt and regular payments of workers salaries, gratuity and pensions, human capacity building and Economic Empowerment to the Masses e.t.c
“One unique feature of the Umahi  Administration is that there’s no sectionalism; projects are evenly spread in the thirteen Local Government Areas making it impossible for any of the different Ebonyi peoples to complain.
Again, Governor Umahi is a man of tremendous energy and enthusiasm. He personally inspects all the State Government Projects, on the average, he visits each project  at least  once  in a week,to follow up on quality control and timely completion. This boundless energy reserve and great passion on projects delivery will bring to an end, the era of abandoned or poor quality project construction in Nigeria.
“Governor Umahi would  be the President you will see in Sokoto in the morning inspecting projects and still see Port-Harcourt in the evening inaugurating projects. The Governor of Ebonyi State is highly gifted in prudent management of men and scarce resources, reasons he has achieved so much with meagre resources available. He is very transparent  and  accountable, the only Nigerian  Governor to meet the accountability  criteria  of the World Bank on States Fiscal Transparency Accountability and Sustainability SFTAS  and as a result won the first position in 2021 with  the award monetary  value  of Seven Million  Dollars ($7,000). The Independent  Corrupt Practices and Other Related  Offences Commission gave  him  a recognition  title  as the Anti- Corruption  Commander .This Governor has the sagacity and administrative adroitness to put an end to regional agitations by fostering real time unity and sense of belonging to all the ethnic Nationalities . This has been demonstrated in various National assignments, including the Adhoc  National Peace Committee on Farmers and Herdsmen in Nigeria”