From Magnus Eze, Enugu

Campaign Organisation of Chief Bond Ohuche, governoship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in Abia State, has said that those who held the state down for years would be retired during next year’s general elections.

Ohuche stated this in his felicitation message to Abians on the 31st anniversary of the creation of the state.

He noted that the anniversary was remarkable because it was a threshold for the people of the state to take decisive action about their future.

He stated that it was not actually a period to celebrate though he was upbeat that they shall rejoice soon as the reign of evil will be retired permanently.

Part of the statement read: “It is significant because it offers us another opportunity for stocktaking on the journey thus far. On this occasion, we have consciously chosen to  roll out the drums in celebration.

“We are celebrating not because all is going well with our dear state, but because hope is coming. We are celebrating because our traducers; those who delibrately rendered our state comatose and made it a laughing stock in the comity of states, will be retired from their serial mischief, come 2023.

“Our hope is bouyed by the visible signs in the horizon that Abians are now wise to the antics of those who connived and conspired to keep us down all these years.

“We are optimistic because Abians have keyed into the voters revolution sweeping across the country. With our PVCs, and enabled by the amended Electoral Act 2022, we are rock confident that the hour of liberation has come.

“We call on all Abians to bond together with Chief Bond Ohuche and the African Action Congress, in the sacred mission to rescue Abia and once more return her to her ordained place as God’s Own State.

“Abia under Chief Bond Ohuche will witness remarkable progress in security of lives and property, medicare/medicaid, infrastructural development, education, welfare of workers and senior citizens (through prompt and regular payment of salaries, pensions and gratuities ) and accelerated provision of business opportunities through micro credits for SMEs. Abia will witness a boom in agriculture, power generation and distribution, energy sufficiency through modular refineries, employment opportunities for our teeming youths and development of the  tourism potentials of the state.”