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Nma Lancester-Okoro, the Abia State Gubernatorial Candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), has revealed the reason behind her bid to become governor in 2023.
She hinged her decision on the economic and Infrastructural deficits impeding the development of the state and regretted the increasing rate of poverty ravaging Abia state.
Lancester-Okoro who was also a former Abia north senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress during 2019 general elections, spoke in an interview with a cross section of journalists in Umuahia on Thursday.
She decried Abia’s developmental backwardness as many politicians have taken advantage of the people in the state by not fulfilling most of their electoral promises, assuring she would bring in her vast wealths of experience and expertises to engender the building of critical and impactful Infrastructural projects across the seventeen local government areas of the three Abia senatorial zones.
The Abia PRP Governorship standard-bearer said that education, mechanized agriculture, and regular payments of salaries will receive topmost attention of her administration when elected into office come next year tilted at empowering and giving sense of belonging to the people of the state.
Her words: “We’re going to concentrate on making agriculture a fulcrum of our economy.
“Agriculture will be the main stay of the state’s economy because we have fertile lands in Abia through farm settlement Investments.
“My administration will invest hugely in mechanized agriculture”.
She continued: “Another aspect my administration will focus is on the enhancement of the welfare of civil servants and pensioners in Abia.
“I am assuring Abia electorates that when supported to emerge as governor, i will use my 100 days in office to ensure the commencement of the payment of salaries and entitlements to our workers and retirees.
“My administration will strive to fish out ghost workers through proper data collection”.
The frontline Abia candidate further confided that her presence as governor will motivate the women folk in the state, as she said that women across the globe are making difference in the polity.
Lancester-Okoro added she had faced numerous threats forcing her to withdraw from the Abia 2023 gubernatorial race, vowing no amount of threats from the opposition will make her give up and also added her genuine desire and passion is to see Abia state is given economic and Infrastructural facelifts for good of the populaces in the state.