RAYMOND OZOJI reports
Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 8th governorship election has said that Anambra citizens can not continue to live in fear over what he saw as prevailing atmosphere of insecurity in the entire state.
Ukachukwu who made the statement while speaking with journalists in Awka shortly after a townhall meeting with former political appointees over the weekend, maintained that the governor has failed woefully in his first constitutional assignment which he said is the protection of lives and property of the citizenry.
He said enough is enough and that the governor must leave on November 8th this year because the masses are tired of living in fear and uncertainty.
Ukachukwu said, " I am not saying that the incumbent governor must go; infact he has gone. It's just a matter of time. I am not the one saying it because my one vote can not make it happen. But the voters in Anambra have said he must go because nobody wants to die anymore.
You wake up in the morning, you go out and you don't know when you will be back; is that the kind of government you want to see ?
Ukachukwu said it was not about building a government house where one would go and have comfort but about the masses who are suffering the pains and agony of insecurity in Anambra State.
He said he has 12 industries in Anambra State that are under lock and key and that over 1000 workers in his companies are not working. According to him, over six experts in his company have been kidnapped and he paid heavily for their ransom.
The APC gubernatorial candidate who stated that Anambra is a state where you are either manufacturing or trading on manufactured goods, stressed that the people are tired of the atmosphere of insecurity and uncertainty in the state and that they earnestly yearn for a positive change where they can trade with ease devoid of threats of insecurity.
He said that the voice of the people is the voice of God and can not be wished away because the people are tired of running away from their homes to seek shelter, safety and security far away from their anscestral homes.
Ukachukwu recalled that he was a former senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) but left them for good and eventually found solace in the All Progressives Congress (APC) where he is now the gubernatorial candidate.
Evangelist Ukachukwu noted that all those shouting APGA were either Councilors, Local Government Chairmen, Commissioners, Advisers or better still government contractors whom he described as political jobbers and sycophants.
He therefore emphasized that those who endorsed his governorship aspiration were former political appointees of APGA government who were laid off without being paid their severance allowances by the present administration.
He said it was not about him but about Ndi-Anambra who are tired of the insecurity ravaging the state that have insisted that the incumbent governor must go and be replaced by a more competent person.
Although Ukachukwu reiterated that he doesn't have anything against Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo because he is his family friend but insisted that in terms of governance and what the people are getting, the present administration has fallen short of the expectations of the people especially as it concerns security of lives and property in the state.
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