Guber Aspirant Promises To Tackle Insecurity, Poverty

A gubernatorial aspirant
under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Major Lancelot Anyanya (rtd) has identified insecurity as one of the major challenges of the state and promised to wipe it out if voted into power.
Anyanya who stated in Port Harcourt while declaring his intention to run as governor come 2015, said his government if elected would provide infrastructure, education healthcare as well as eradicate poverty in the state.
He regretted that cases of kidnapping and other forms of crime were becoming too rampant and assured that he would use his bulk of military experience to ensure that blood shedding becomes a thing  of the past. He noted that Rivers State could not benefit from President Goodluck Jonathan’s first tenure because of what he described as a disconnection between the state and the federal governments.
According to him, the issues of social security and inclusiveness would be addressed properly by his planned administration, while ensuring that the state’s resources would be used to deliver the dividends of democracy to the people.
Enjoining Rivers people to choose wisely the governor that would take them to the promised land, Anyanya said the people deserved to be great and given the best considering their contributions toward nation building and economic development of the country. “I see greatness coming back to Rivers State, we have resources but we are not wealthy and we are suffering. But the future is bright, he said.
The gubernatorial aspirant also promised to fight environmental degradation which he described as a common enemy of the state, noting that the state should wake up from slumber to reclaim her rights.
Anyanya, who presented his certificates of intent at the event, stated that the effect of oil exploration in the state aggravated cancer, and pledged that aggressive medical care would be put in place to check the ailment even as he solicited the support of Rivers people to enable him emerge victorious at the 2015 poll.

Shedia  Okpara