ABIA 2015: NOBODY WILL DICTATE TO ME AS GOVERNOR - IKPEAZU

Peoples Demo ratic Party’s governorship candidate for the April 11 election in Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has said that his government would not be dictated to by any person, insisting that it would bear his signature.He said the fact that he was being supported by the incumbent governor did not mean the governor would run the government for him.

According to him, in states like Anambra and Lagos, where the then incumbent governors helped in the emergence of their successor, they did not contro the government.

‘’Abia’s case will be not be different. The government will bear my signature, not somebody’s signature. For every action, there is a burden. I have weighed my position, the advantage outweighs the disadvantage. I am comfortable with Governor T. A. Orji,” the PDP governorship hopeful said. He was reacting to insinuations that he might be a stooge of the incumbent governor.

Ikpeazu wondered why the opposition found it difficult to give credit to Governor Orji where he had done very well, saying they always talk of Abia which is not even his creation.

He noted that the Governor Orji had done a lot in Umuahia, the state capital, alleging also that some desperate politicians in the state were inciting youths to go back to kidnapping but warned the youths not to fall to such temptation again.

Ikpeazu warned Abia youths that security operatives would crush them if they fell to such evil temptation.

According to him, some politicians are tinkering with the idea of luring the youths back to kidnapping just because they want political power.

He lamented the huge human and material resources the state lost to kidnapping and wondered why any reasonable leader would want to incite Abia youths to go back to the evil just to cause trouble for the state.

Ikpeazu warned politicians to realize that the youths they were arming would in future constitute a major problem for
the state when they turned monsters.

He said no other governorship candidate in the state understood how kidnapping was stopped in the state other than him, explaining that was the reason he would continue to advise youths against being used by politicians.