By Prince Ejeh Josh
…We are up to the task, expect landslide victory – Asogwa, campaign DG
The entire business community in Enugu State as well as potential investors have been assured of a friendly, transparent, thriving and attractive business environment by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Peter Mbah, stressing that his administration would not overburden business owners with needless taxes.
The governorship candidate who disclosed this on Friday at Iheakpu-Awka and Ovoko towns, headquarters of Igboeze South East and Ekete Development Centres respectively, stated that he had already put up robust and excellent plans that will spur a quantum leap in the status of the state’s economy.
Dr. Mbah further re-echoed his resolve to move the state away from the conventional dependence on federal allocations to sourcing revenues internally through the exploitation of the abundant human and material resources by converting them into productive assets.
While demonstrating how he intended to finance the ambitious projects as marshalled in his manifesto without over taxing or belabouring citizens with unreasonable taxes, the governorship hopeful stressed that his government would disrupt the traditional financing model driven by creative alternative financing model by engaging private sector investors.
Underscoring the strategic place of infrastructure in achieving industrialisation and growing the economy of the state from $4.4 billion to $30 billion, Dr. Mbah observed that the world is migrating to digitization through the deployment of information and communication technology which the state under his leadership will tap into.
He added that his administration will partner, train, and engage youths in technical and vocational skills that will drive the digital economy he planned for the state.
Dr. Mbah, who further extolled the warm reception and massive turnouts by the two development centres, assured the people that the Iheakpu-Awka-Ulu-n-Owerre-Iheaka and Itchi-Unadu-Alor-Agu roads would be constructed as it was captured in his 10,000 kilometers of roads in his manifesto.
He reiterated that the Ekete market will be expanded, with more hospitals upgraded, equipped with modern facilities and staffed with medics 24 hours daily.
Speaking earlier, the Director General (DG) of the Peter Mbah and PDP Campaign Organisation, Chief Ikeje Asogwa vowed that Igboeze South local government area and by extension, the Nsukka zone, had already been won and delivered to Dr. Mbah and other PDP candidates in the forthcoming elections because of the caliber of experienced political gladiators in the zone.
He boasted that, as the DG of the campaign team, he would spread his political tentacles to the grassroots through his foot soldiers and deliver landslide victory for the party.
According to him, the battle for the soul of 2023 was already won for the PDP and their results would be to prove some points that PDP is still in charge.
The former PDP State Chairman, while describing Dr. Mbah as a man of integrity, character, capacity and competence, added that the governorship frontrunner is a product everyone would be proud to identify with and market even on the streets because of his excellent track records and history of success in the private sector.
Similarly, the chairman of the local government, Hon. Vitus Okechi, House of Assembly member, Hon. Emeka Madu, House of Representatives member, Dr. Pat Asadu, Engr. Vita Abba, Prof. Ngozi Eze, Hon. Dame Ogbonna, among others who spoke at the gatherings reaffirmed their faith in the candidacy of Mbah and promised to embark on door-to-door mobilisation for him.
They called on their people to seize the opportunity presented by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to collect their permanent voter’s cards and come en masse on the election day and deliver PDP candidates.
