APGA must represent Anambra all through in N/Assembly this time-Umeh

Former Commissioner for Information and Tourism in Anambra State, Chief Majah Umeh has identified lack of synergy between the State Governor and lawmakers of Anambra State extraction in the National Assembly as being responsible for poor

representation of the federal constituencies and senatorial zones in the State as he gives Governor Willie Obiano a pass mark so far reports www.odogwublog.com .

Chief Umeh at his Amichi country home in Nnewi South Local Government Area, yesterday, said the situation had robbed the State huge federal presence and other democracy dividends which would have been made possible if members of the House of Representatives and Senators from Anambra State belonged to the same political party as the Governor of the State to necessitate the lawmakers paying courtesy calls to the State Governor, occasionally and articulate how to attract more federal presence to Anambra because of an existing synergy.

Chief Umeh, who was the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) aspirant in the current political dispensation and a member of Anambra Campaign Organization noted that the scenario could only be changed in the forth-coming elections if voters in Anambra could vote massively for the APGA to ensure that the party fully controled the State.

"Currently, all the serving Senators from Anambra are not from our great party. They do not come to discuss issues of interest with the Governor because they belong to different political parties. We want the APGA  to win all the three senatorial seats for proper and effective representation.

"Anything we are doing at the State level without federal collaboration will never bring maximized benefit to the Anambra people. A situation where an elected Senator comes into the State from Abuja without paying courtesy calls on the Governor just because he belongs to a different political party gives room to loss of synergy," Chief Umeh said.

On the performance of Governor Obiano so far, he said he learnt that  the Governor had attracted over 2billion dollars investmemt to the State and commended the Governor for achieving the feat in a short period he assumed office.

"I can see the infrastructural transformation of the Awka capital territory. There are about threee flyovers going on simultaneously in the State capital, something we never had before. The Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) has gone nuclear because of the money he had put in there to revolutionalize it and the ideology he has about the place. I see a lot of the lifting of the spirit of abum onye Anambra ( I am a proud Anambra person).

"The man is out there containing effectively the security challenges of kidnap and all that. So, I want to call on the people of Anambra to support this government. I think the State is on course under Governor Obiano's watch," he appealed.