By CHARLES IWUOHA

The member representing Ebonyi Central zone in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Obinna Ogba, on Friday declared that he has all it takes to match Governor David Umahi-led government during the 2023 elections.

Ogba spoke during the State Executive Committee meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at Salt Lake Hotels in Abakaliki.

The Senator while distributing vehicles to the State Party Chairman, his Vice and Chairmen of the 13 local government areas of the PDP, urged the party faithful to be committed in the PDP activities and assured that the party would not disappoint them in 2023.

“I have all it takes to match Governor David Umahi in any election. I’m giving rice to all PDP 171 wards. This will be given to them latest 20th December, 2021.

“I’m giving out these cars to party members because there’s no state vehicle that runs around the state with PDP logo. I’m doing this because we don’t have a governor.

“Whatever the governor can do for the APC, we can do for the PDP. You are free to support anybody in PDP during election.

“Whatsoever anybody can do for the PDP should be done now. I challenge others to do same or more.

“I’m giving a Jeep and Hilux for the PDP Chairman in the State and that small car to the Vice Chairman. The bus is for those accompanying the chairman; you know he can’t be driving alone. The 13 Sienna buses are for the 13 local government chairmen,” the lawmaker said.

He said that the Ebonyi stakeholders of the PDP are united and working together to ensure the party bounces back to the power both in the state and at the centre come 2023.

Earlier in his address, the Chairman of the Ebonyi State Chapter of the PDP, Prince Tochukwu Okorie, boasted that his party would defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, come 2023 governorship election.

Okorie said that PDP under his watch, is battle ready to lockout government in power to painstakingly reconstruct the lives of the alleged traumatized Ebonyi people and rebuild all the alleged decayed institutions in the education and health sectors in the state.

“Today’s meeting is therefore crucial as it affords us the opportunity to commence in essence the process of rescuing our people from hunger, deprivations and bloodletting that has been their lot since 2015.

“The PDP in Ebonyi is well poised to lockout this anti-people government so we can painstakingly reconstruct the lives of the traumatized Ebonyi people and rebuild our decayed institutions in the education and health sectors.

“I call on Ebonyi people at home and diaspora to join hands with us to ensure that the brigandage that they pass off for governance does not continue beyond 2023.

“Going forward, we shall take this government to task by demanding answers for the numerous unanswered questions on the management of our human and material resources under its watch.

“The Ebonyi State House of Assembly will no longer be allowed to continue as the governor’s rubber stamp.

“The PDP caucus in the House shall be energized to do its job as an opposition party and it will no longer be business as usual. No longer will our members be denied their rights or privileges as members of the EBHA. We will go as far as the Supreme Court, if need be, to ensure that happens.

“Beloved party men and women, let us all brace up and pull together rather than pull apart for the actualization of our set goals.

“Let us eschew all rancour, close ranks and work together as a team. No one must be allowed to break our ranks again as we journey towards our promised land, the land that flows with milk and honey.

“By the grace of God, we shall soon witness the triumph of good over evil, the triumph of the people over a gang of opportunists, the triumph of the PDP over a rudderless APC,” the Ebonyi PDP Chairman said.

Also speaking, former Minister of State for Health, Chief Fidelis Nwankwo, urged that machineries should be put in action to encourage robust party membership and continuous voter registration while moving towards 2023 elections, whether the proposed electoral amendment act on direct primaries would be endorsed or not by the concerned authorities.

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