The immediate past Consul General of
Nigeria to South Africa, Ambassador Okey Emuchay, on Monday, officially
joined the 2015 Abia State governorship race.
Emuchay, who was at the state
secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party in Umuahia, said he decided
to heed the call of his people to join the governorship race because of
his desire to sustain and consolidate on the good foundations already
laid by Governor Theodore Orji.
He commended Orji for liberating the
state from the grip of political bondage and for posting remarkable
achievements in the security and infrastructural sectors, promising to
take the state to greater heights if elected.
He said, “In my 31 years of diplomacy, I
never forgot home; my work was to defend Nigeria, and I did my best to
market Nigeria abroad, and I promise to replicate such feat in Abia” he
said .
He said he was fully ready and prepared
to offer himself for the service of Abia state, while soliciting the
support of the party.
Responding, the PDP Chairman, Senator
Emma Nwaka, thanked him for notifying the party officially of his
intensions to contest for the exalted position and promised that all
aspirants would be given equal opportunity at the primaries.
He said the quality of aspirants seeking
the governorship position on the PDP’s platform was an indication that
the party was well grounded and people oriented.
He said that anyone who emerged as the
party’s flag bearer at the primaries would receive PDP’s total support
for victory at the main poll.
He said, “We will make sure we produce a
God- fearing person for Abia; a man who sees Abia as his constituency,
and a man who will not take us back to idolatry.
“Once you get our ticket, you can go and sleep because the fight is ours.”
He pleaded with the aspirants who fail
to secure the party’s flag after the primaries to close ranks with
anyone that emerges as the candidate.
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