APC Candidate Stresses Need For Intensive Voters’ Campaign

The All Progressives
Congress (APC) candidate for Imo House of Assembly (Owerri North Constituency) Mr Emeka Lloyd, has stressed the need for intensive voters’ enlightenment campaign ahead of 2015 general elections.
He said this in an interview with newsmen in Owerri, recently.
Lloyd said the effort would enable the electorate to understand and keep to the provisions of the electoral law during the exercise.
He said the youth should be made to understand the danger of violence during and after election.
The candidate called on the appropriate authority to check money politics in the country.
He expressed concern that early signs of huge money being spent by some politicians must be checked to avoid violence in next poll.
He said that huge monetary spending characterised primaries of some mega political parties, adding that it did not augur well for the nation’s polity.
“There is the fear that politicians who invested heavily on primaries might visit the 2015 general elections with serious desperation.
“If the masses, especially the youth, are not well enlightened, they might be lured into electoral violence and other acts that could endanger the electoral process,” he said.
The candidate, therefore, advised Nigerians to vote for credible candidates and shun money bags, to strengthen the nation’s democratic rule.
“Any politician who uses money as his/her selling point is obviously exhibiting the signs that he/she is incapable of rendering quality service.
“This is because after such huge spending, the person will look for means of recovering the money at the detriment of the people’s welfare.
He said that Nigeria needed the right people in office, to proffer lasting solutions  to its various problems, “especially the dwindling oil revenue and not political loafers’’.
The candidate appealed to people of the area to avoid politicians whose interest was to use them for selfish gains.
Lloyd commended Gov. Rochas Okorocha for exhibiting quality leadership in the past three and half years.
He said if elected, the people of Owerri North would witness quality legislative representation, promising that communities with poor road network and other infrastructure needs would be attended to.
The candidate also promised to empower the youth and women of the area through his education and micro-finance credit scheme.

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