I can win my election--- Chief of Staff
Dr Alex Egbuna, the Chief of Staff to Senator Liyel Imoke who recently resigned his appointment to contest the Abi/Yakurr Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives says he can win his elections both primary and general with ease any time any day.
Declaring his preparedness to contest the slot, Dr Egbuna said he has since his graduation in 1990 done nothing else but play active politics and this has fully equipped him on how to politic and also meet the needs of the people which has significantly endeared him to the hearts of the people, not just in Abi but across the state.
He assured the people of Abi /Yakuur Federal Constituency that he would in forty-eight months make a tangible difference in the lives of the people of the constituency by sustaining the gains already made by his predecessors, Hon Obeten Okorn and Hon Bassey Ewa whom he said is serving his last seven months in the House of Representatives. “The last time we met here you were asking me to make a statement on the 2015 election and I said the time was not ready then but today is the time and I can tell you that among all those in the field, I am one person who can win election with ease any time any day”.
Dr Egbuna, popularly called “Chief”, said the Yakuur axis of the constituency has held the slot for sixteen years continuously and the time has come for the slot to move to the Abi axis of the constituency for the purpose of equal representation and fairplay. “In 2011 some people came to me and said I should challenge Bassey but I said no that he should be allowed to go for a second tenure and he did but this time around it is the time of Abi and I am prepared for it”.
He said he is educationally and physically prepared for the post haven worked hard to meet the needs of his people while he served as Special Assistant to Mr Donald Duke and as the Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff to Imoke. “My opponent says that when he went there in the first four years, he was a nobody even when he left the state as the Speaker of the State Assembly but I am not a nobody but a Chief of Staff and I don’t see what others who have gone there have that I don’t have so I am going there as a big boy and will surely make impact in the lives of my people”.
The former Chief of Staff said he going to work towards creating employment for at least two hundred people in his constituency in forty-eight months which will go a long way in transforming the lives of many people in the constituency. “Though I will not like to tell you the details of my plans but I want to see that there is a fifty bed hospital at Mkpani Junction and I will do this not necessarily with government money but with funds from donor agencies and I have seen it done elsewhere and will do it here”.
He said in the politics of turn by turn, if someone has represented a place for eight years, it is only fair that such a person leaves the scene for another to give room for equal representation and spread of wealth.
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