Why APGA swept polls at Anambra House of Assembly polls

The Liaison Officer to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State in Nnewi South Local Government Area, Hon Jerome Ifeanyi Igwe has attributed the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA

overwhelming victory during the April 11 State House of Assembly polls to Obiano’s doggedness and articulated political sagacity.

Hon Igwe said at Ebenator in Nnewi South that the opposition had wished to form the majority in the State House to frustrate smooth administration of the Governor but had been disappointed at the polls by the wishes of the electorate.

He said that the same victory would have been recorded by the APGA in the March 28 National Assembly election “except that we were rigged out but we are sure to regain our mandate at the tribunal”.

He congratulated Hon Rita Maduagwu and Hon Kingsley Iruba on their victories in the State House of Assembly election for Nnewi South Constituencies 11 and 1, respectively and other APGA stakeholders in the council area.

Commenting on the victory, President-General of Ebenator community, Chief Cletus Esomonu said that one of the major reasons his community voted for the APGA was that Governor Obiano had been the first Governor to pay attention to a gully erosion menace at Ubaha in Ebenator now under control after over two decades “during which the erosion submerged many houses, rendering many villagers homeless as well as destruction of economic trees and domestic animals.

Esomonu who pleaded with the Governor that the project be completed in record time, also thanked him for appointing one of their illustrious sons, Hon Igwe as the Liaison Officer to the Governor in the council area, adding that it was the first political appointment coming to the community from the State.

He expressed the hoped that the appointee would later be elavated to a higher office, even as he pleaded with the winners of the State Assembly election in the area to carry everybody along during their tenure.