A former senatorial aspirant for Abia North under All Progressive Congress ( APC), Prof Philips Nto has charged former councillors in Arochukwu LGA to ensure that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and APC win all their wards in the coming election.
He said a total victory for Tinubu will ensure the sustenance of the economic reforms by the president, leading to enhanced development across Nigeria.
Prof Nto, who is a member of the Presidential Campaign Council, gave the charge when the former councillors from different political parties paid him a solidarity visit .
He said that they should start an aggressive campaign at the grassroots to sell Tinubu and APC so that the 70% votes he prophesied for the president from Abia would be actualized.
According to the former Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning, who is now the Director of APC Election Planning, Coordination and Monitoring in Abia state said their target must be to win their units and wards for Tinubu and APC.
According to him, ” if you listened to my keynote address during the presidential campaign Council inauguration in Abia, I made it clear that the least that Ndigbo should do for Tinubu after his benevolent gestures towards us ,is to return him to office with 70% votes.
Prof Nto, who is a former Provost of Abia State College of Education, Technical, Arochukwu, and former World Bank consultant, further charged them to protect their votes by standing their ground against intimidation
He, however, advised them against resorting to violence in any form irrespective of the level of provocation.
” Our leader, Rt Hon Benjamin Kalu, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, is preaching against rigging and violence. Please support him because he has never led us astray, ” he submitted
Speaking on behalf of the former councillors, Hon Chris Obasi Egbebu, disclosed that they embarked on the solidarity visit to congratulate Prof Nto on his appointments as a member of Presidential Campaign Council as well as Director of Election Management and coordination in the state.
Hon Egbebu noted that APC has made the entire Arochukwu LGA and Abia North proud by entrusting him with those key responsibilities, describing him as a man who has never failed in any assignment given to him.
He said all the former councillors have decided to work for APC and Tinubu because of their level of trust, confidence, and respect for Prof Ntò.
While urging him to continue to make Abia State proud, the councillors pleaded with Prof. Nto to ensure that they were properly carried along during the period of election to ensure that APC clears the entire Arochukwu LGA.
