By Okechukwu Onuegbu
The governorship candidate of Young Progressives Party (YPP), Sir Paul Chukwuma, on Thursday, promised to reconnect Anambra State to the centre and boost the ease of doing business if elected on November 8 gubernatorial poll.
Chukwuma, an erstwhile seminarian, stated this in Awka, shortly after picking the ticket of YPP having scored 366 votes in an Option A4 during a governorship primary he participated unopposed.
The former National Auditor of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had resigned from the party where he was a major financier and leading aspirant few days to the primary that produced Prince Nickolas Ukachukwu as candidate.
According to him, every Monday sit-at-home and other obnoxious government policies were affecting the State economy badly.
Sir Paul Chukwuma, while reassuring his commitment to fix Anambra State, which according to him, was broken and needed someone to salvage her from insecurity, infrastructural decay, among others.
“My emergence as candidate of YPP is a new dawn. The party is taken a new shape. Our dream is to deepen the altruistic and selfless efforts of late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. With me, YPP will triumph on this election. Our agenda is to connect Anambra to the centre. We are parts of the federation.
“We must connect to the centre. Anambra State as A State must remain number one in infrastructure, education, security of lives and property, among others. We will end insecurity, encourage ease of doing of business, end heavy taxations and other bad policies for businesses to thrive and create more jobs,” he added.
In their separate speeches, the National Secretary of the party, Barrister Bamaiyi Vidiyeno, who was the primary election committee Chairman, and the party’s National Chairman, Bishop Amakiri, described Chukwuma as a Godsent and corrupt-free leader whose emergence as governor would bring development, transparent and accountable leadership.
