Politics
PDP Chieftain Salutes Fubara’s Revolutionary Dev Effort
Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State is poised to ensure that the economy of Rivers State is appropriately diversified, going by his commitment to building better bridges of pro-people development programmes.
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State, Hon Heelas Ideozu, made the observation while speaking with newsmen recently in Ahoada, headquarter of Ahoada East Local Government Area.
Hon Ideozu said to this end, Governor Fubara’s development blueprint for economic transformation has been outlined and strategies and initiatives put in place to make sure the State’s economy is revived and diversified.
He maintained that by so doing, it will create jobs and attract investments, adding that the Governor Fubara -led dispensation has already achieved remarkable milestones in various sectors of the state’s economy within a period of one year, where the state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) has risen from #12 billion to over #28billion.
Hon. Ideozu, an Ahoada East Chairmanship aspirant under the platform of the PDP in the forth-coming 2024 Local Government elections, stressed that “Governor Siminalayi Fubara -led administration within the period under review, was able to develop a comprehensive and ambitious five – year economic plan for Rivers people, noting that this arrangements outlined strategies and initiatives to fully diversify and strengthen the economy, provide jobs, attracts investments, and improve the standard of living for all Rivers people.”
Hon Ideozu said that Governor Fubara had worked hard and performed creditably well in the act of governance, which he described as the finest in the 25 years of democratic governance in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Hon. Ideozu has felicitated Governor Fubara on the celebration of his administration’s first year in the saddle of governance in the state.
He commended the governor for the avalanche of projects executed by government, ranging from roads construction, rehabilitation of other ones, increase in the state revenue, clearing civil servants backlogs of salary arrears, payment of gratuities to retirees, and the reviving of the health and education sectors, among other dividends of democracy to Rivers people.
Bethel Toby