Local Councils, Key To Rural Transformation – PDP Stalwart

Ahead of the 2024 local councils elections in Rivers State, a grassroots politician has underscored the need to rescue the third tier government from under-development occasioned by incompetence, maladministration and bad governance.
Pastor Joe Opanwa, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State stated this on Tuesday while speaking exclusively with The Tide in Port Harcourt.
He described the local government administration as the biggest hope for the welfare and wellbeing of the greater number of Nigerians who live in the rural communities and advocated deliberate efforts to enthrone qualitative leadership to ensure its transformation.
Opanwa who is aspiring for the chairmanship seat of Oyigbo Local Government Council in the forthcoming polls next year said he is ready and available to liberate the LGA from poor quality services by successive administrations due largely to empty leadership mindset of those in the corridors of power.
“My administration will operate a policy that will build bridges of quality development for the people if voted into power”, he said.
He noted that time had come to depart from the era of misappropriation of funds meant for the development of the LGA that had characterised the running of the affairs of the council.
“My emergence as Chairman will liberate Oyigbo from bad governance. As a God fearing, compassionate and transparent leader, I have come to break the jinx of not releasing what belongs to the LGA and its people to them.
“I am using this opportunity to urge all Oyigbo eligible voters to come out in their large numbers to support me, so as to right all the wrongs of mis-governance produced by bad and anti-people leaders, whose interest is to squander the resources of the people without achieving any result”, he said.
Pastor Opanwa vowed to run a transparent, purposeful, result oriented and inclusive administration that will be a reference point for other councils in the country ,adding that he hopes to be counted as one of the most trusted and dependable leaders to emerge from Oyigbo LGA.

By: Bethel Toby