The Labour Party Governorship Candidate in Abia, Dr Alex Otti, has said that he is in the race to fight the political class that allegedly stifled the development of the state.
Otti said this on Tuesday at Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, during his campaign to canvass for the people’s votes.
He regretted that Abia’s socio-economic trajectory under successive administrations since the return of democratic governance in 1999 had been abysmal and worrisome.
“From one bad administration to a worse successor in the hands of those that have held the state down and refused to allow it to develop.
“This unhealthy system has persisted and it looks like there is no man in the state strong enough to challenge and put an end to the rascality in governance.
“This is the strong factor that persuaded me to join the race in 2015, simply to rescue our state from the clutches of its enemies,” Otti said.
The governorship hopeful, who resigned as the Executive Director of the defunct Diamond Bank in 2014, said that he was not in the race to make money.
Mr. Otti specifically promised to clear the outstanding arrears of salaries, pensions and gratuities in the first six months of his assumption of office.
He further said that he would devote the security vote to offer revolving loans to the youths and women in order to empower them and create wealth.
The governorship candidate, therefore, urged them to organise themselves into cooperative societies to be able to get the loans “immediately we come into office”.
He promised to address the critical needs of the people in the areas of roads, education, health and other social amenities, when elected.
Otti thanked the people for their massive support for him in previous elections and urged them to replicate the same during the poll.
He also warned them to be wary of deceitful political office seeker, who had split themselves into different parties “to confuse the electorate”.
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