Rivers LG Polls: Group Makes Case For PDP, Aspirant

Ahead of next year’s local government elections in Rivers State, a group, the United Oyigbo Intellectuals (UOI), has assured Oyigbo people that the chairmanship aspirant under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the local government, Pastor Joe Opanwa, will reduce poverty in the area to the barest minimum through job creation and accessible governance.
In a statement made available to newsmen shortly after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, the group said that Opanwa as chairman of council would focus on building a modern local government which would be the envy of all.
The statement which was signed by its President, Engr. Ishmael Jamike Okere, Secretary, Sir Onyewuchi Ogbonna and Public Relations Officer, George Ndudi Ekeke respectively, reiterated that an Opanwa-led administration will establish  an economic philosophy from which council’s economic vision will be derived, pointing out that such a vision will make clear the respective roles of the area and its position on capitalism and its various adaptions.
The body said that the PDP’s leadership under the headship of Pastor Opanwa will create and vigorously execute a concrete economic diversification plan that will ensure a prosperous path beyond dependence on federal allocation.
The group remarked that the 2024 local government polls would be peculiar  because recycled and corrupt politicians will be removed by the electorate, adding that it was time for the local government, to close the era of waste, corruption and incompetence that had held the area back from achieving its political relevance and potentials.
According to the body, “it is a choice between freedom and perpetual slavery under our regrouped and corrupt political class, and an unending instability in the polity.’’
It appealed to Oyigbo electorate to believe in the PDP as it would live up to its name of being democratic, as well as being an agent of raising standards across board in politics and policy.
The organisation, therefore, urged the Oyigbo people to give full support to the aspiration of Pastor Apanwa to facilitate the desired result in 2024.

By: Bethel Toby