Umahi Urges Electorates To Support APC’s Candidate, Prof Ani in Ebonyi South Senatorial Bye- Election

• Says President Tinubu has given Ebonyi South East a voice, deserves their unflinching support

The Honourable Minister of Works, His Excellency, Sen. Engr. Nweze David Umahi CON has called upon the people of Ebonyi South Senatorial District to work concertedly to deliver the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Ebonyi  South Senatorial bye-election slated  for  3rd February, 2024.

The Hon. Minister gave this charge during a rap up meeting of Ebonyi South APC’s stakeholders held at his residence in Abakaliki on 26th January 2024, in preparation for the Senatorial bye-election.

According to a statement by Hon. Barr. Orji Uchenna Orji Special Adviser (Media) to the Hon. Minister of Works, he expressed satisfaction with the popularity of the candidacy of   Prof Okorie Anthony Ani and urged the stakeholders to redouble their efforts to ensure that overwhelming votes are delivered to the candidate of APC.

Sen, Umahi recounted the numerous opportunities and democracy dividends due to benefit by Ebonyi State and indeed South East  from the commendable development  masterplan of the Renewed Hope administration of  the President of Nigeria, His Excellency, Sen. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR.

He also commended the Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Bldr. Francis  Ogbonna Nwifuru for the unity of the Party and for hitting  the ground  running  with life-changing  programmes and called for unflinching  support to the APC administration at all levels.

“The President has given the South East a voice. He has fully integrated South East. It’s time to reciprocate by making our party number one. What is the Senator going to do for us compared to what Mr. President has done for us? So, it’s not about the election of the Senator. It’s about returning gratitude to Mr. President, to the Governor and to the party. That is, it.”

“And I want to thank all the people from Ebonyi South and, of course, the entire State for their loyalty to the Governor and for working with him. He is the leader of the party in the State. He is the leader of Government. And we must have to honor him.”

In his remarks during the event, the Chairman  of All Progressives Congress, APC in the State, Chief  Stanley  Okoro Emegha, thanked the  Hon. Minister of  Works  for his kind disposition  to the affairs  of the  Party and for making  the State  proud as Hon. Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He assured the Hon. Minister that the Party would cruise to victory in the 3rd February 2024 bye- election.

The Honourable Minister of Works was elected  by the good people of  Ebonyi South Senatorial  District on 25th February  2023 to represent Ebonyi  South in the 10th Senate, where he was further elected as  Deputy Leader of the 10th Senate before  his appointment  by the President of Nigeria  as the Hon. Minister of Works.

He made a historic outing as the first Senator in the history of modern democracy to be elected a Principal Officer as a first-timer in a record time.

He resigned from the Senate in August 2023 upon his swearing-in as Hon. Minister of Works on 21st August, 2023. The search for a replacement of Senator Engr Nweze David Umahi in the Senate was painstaking because of the big shoes he left as a Senator representing the District. The people settled for a University Don, Prof Okorie Anthony Ani, because of his moral and intellectual track records.

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