Ebonyi 2023: APC guber aspirant vows to sustain development put in place by Gov. Umahi

Gracia Simeon-Abakaliki

A former Senator in Ebonyi State, Senator Julius Ucha, has vowed to sustain the development put in place by the  present administration under Governor David Umahi if he wins. 

 Ucha, disclosed this on Wednesday when he paid courtesy call on the State Working Committee of APC to declare  his intention to contest governorship position of the state under the platform of the party in 2023.

The  two term Senator and former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, also noted that his emergence would protect the future of Ebonyians.

“One thing I have told myself is that i am not a desperate person. I have never been desperate. Nothing bothers me. My Hypertension is 110/70. We have to work hard and not take anything for granted”.

“I have told myself that I have a duty if by the Special Grace of God and elected the Governor of Ebonyi State; to maintain the standard of infrastructural development already put in place by the present administration; to sustain the gain and legacies which Governor Umahi already put in place and to secure the future of the people of Ebonyi state”.

“While maintaining the standard and sustaining the gains; in securing the future, the governor has laid the foundation for human resource development and empowerment. I will consolidate the human resource development and empowerment through education, agriculture, through sustenance of the state of the art health facility and through industrialization”, Ucha promised. 

The Governorship aspirant further urged the APC leadership in the state to open the space at the local areas so that aspirants can start to reach out to people and make the party vibrant in all the nooks and crannies of the State. 

Ucha contested the governoship position in 2007 and 2011. ENDS