Comrade Tony Nwoyes Name Is In INEC Not Ukachukwu—We Shall Overcome Text of a speech delivered by Pharm Ikeagwuonwu Klinsmann at a forum organized by Anambra PDP Leadership Forum at Awka. I am proud to be nominated as your guest speaker today at this occasion of your forum on GOOD GOVERNANCE AND 2013 GENERAL ELECTION IN ANAMBRA STATE. I wouldnt have been here today as your guest speaker if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ward delegates had not taken a bold step in organizing a free and fair congress where Comrade Tony Nwoye was elected as the Candidate of the party on the 24th of August, 2013. Earlier this evening, I received a phone call on the rumors making round and being sponsored by some detractors of the party that Comrade Tony Nwoye is no longer the candidate of the PDP.I wish to assure you that Comrade Tony Nwoye is and still remains the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has already issued Comrade Tony Nwoye an acknowledgementletter accepting his nomination which also indicates that his name has been entered by INEC as the authentic candidate of the party in Anambra state. Please disregard this rumor as we have more pressing issues to discuss here today I wish to thank President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the National Working Committee of the PDP and all of you here today for keeping faith with our great party and keeping faith with our candidate Comrade Tony Nwoye In a few days from today, the National Executive Council of PDP and a few representativeswill be coming to Anambra state to kick-start the campaign of Comrade Tony Nwoye for the Governorship of Anambra State Few days ago, I met with a group of people from ANAMBRA JUSTIC GROUP, working independently to ensure that our candidate Comrade Tony Nwoye emerges successfully at the Governorship election holding on the 16th of Noveber, 2013.In their midst stood a young widow who voiced a concern that her monthly salary was never enough to care for her family needs let alone pay for the school fees of her two daughters. I did promise her that Social Security and free education shall form the basis of Comrade Tony Nwoyes Policy as soon as a PDP led government is sworn in by 2014 ARE YOU READY TO TAKE BACK ANAMBRA STATE? Anambra state has suffered over the years through failed leadership. Lack of security and affordable health care, lack of social security, disregard to the pressing problems of free education and other myriads of problems that have confronted us are visible indicators that the present administration in the state has lost touch with reality and these amongst others explains the need to send this present government packing on the 16th of Nov, 2013 If there are Politicians in Nigeria and elsewhere who still think it is ethically and morally right to neglect polices in governance aimed at empowerment of those governed and still thinks such to be fair and justified….LET THEM COME TO ANAMBRA STATE If there are people across the country who still support politics of failed policies and deceits and still think that we as a people can still make progress….LET THEM COME TO ANAMBRA STATE If there are people who think it is politically correct and justified for a person or group of persons to hold an entire state to ransom through the instrumentalityof court actions aimed at destabilizing the polity or smuggling themselves into government house through the window without the due process of campaigns and regards to the grass roots……….THEY CAN BE MY GUEST, LET THEM COME TO ANAMBRA STATE If there are people who still think that leadership doesnt matter and politics is not for the welfare of the people and still support a leadership that benefits only a limited few in a society…KA HA BIA ANAMBRA STATE (Let them come to Anambra State) It is not just governance that we are looking for in this years election, we are looking for leadership that will make a difference in Anambra State. We are looking for a comrade leadership that will allow the voices of the people to be heared, the kind of leadership that will not only listen to the grass-root but also incorporate the opinion of the grass-root as an integral policy in governance and policy decisions in the State. The emergency of Comrade Tony Nwoye is not just an end but a means of achieving this end which is to take back Anambra State and return power to the grass-root I will like to tell us the story of Tony Okechuku Nwoye.At the start of this Campaign, Comrade Nwoye was not the likely candidate to emerge. His campaign was not hatched at Abuja nor was heralded by the media houses and till today, there is no expensive bill board with the face of Comrade Tony Nwoye in Anambra state. Even when the aspirants from PDP were called for a meeting at Abuja his name was deliberately omitted as he was considered not being a factor in the election as he has no fleet of cars or mobile policemen following him across the state. Unlike other aspirants, Tonys campaign was hatched at a humble meeting organized by the working class and a few courageous men and women from across the state at his home town Nsugbe who prayed for him and pledged their support for his campaigns. Through hard work, prayers, sacrifices, grace of God and the support of the grass-root, he emerged successfully as the PDP candidate in Anambra State The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us. Our families have paid the price of bad governance. We are all victims of bad governance and poor economic policies. We are all victims of failed leadership, of poor wages and lack of jobs, of insecurity and lack of social security. Tony Nwoye is in this race to restore confidence in leadership, to renew that promise that through hardwork, sincerity, honesty and transparency, there is no limit to what is achievable in Anambra State More Scary is the growing economic inequality and inequity that is tearing our state apart. Few years ago, the economic gap between families in Anambra state was marginal but in 2013, the margin has grown even bigger. We need to close this gap, we need to create jobs, employment opportunities, formulate empowerment policies especially for the young people. We need to create loan acquisition opportunities for people who are qualified, create economic empowerment for people to make a living to support their families and their communities. WE MUST GIVE BACK TO THE PEOPLE OF ANAMBRA WHOM WE HAVE TAKEN SO MUCH FROM If you are one of those families that have lost faith in governance or seems to have lost hope for the future especially as it concerns your children (I have visited one last week), I say to you today that CHANGE HAS COME TO ANAMBRA STATE If you are a hard working student from a middle class family worried about the means to pay your tuition as there are no Scholarships from our state government, I say to you today, wipe away your tears as a new age is about to begin in Anambra state If you are a son or daughter of this great state, who finding no job opportunities in the state as a result of misplacement of priorities by the APGA led administration in the State, migrates within your legitimate rights as a Nigerian citizen to Lagos state or elsewhere and gets deported to Onitsha by the APC led instruments and their clones in this state,calling you destitute or other inhuman names, I say to you today, we love you all, come back to Anambra state, we believe in shared prosperity of all Anambrarians,Comrade Tony Nwoyes administration will give you jobs When by the grace of God and with your support, Comrade Tony Nwoye becomes the Governor of Anambra State as he will be on the 24th of November, the entrance to the Government house will no longer be a revolving door for only the well connected but a door of opportunity to the well qualified, for Men, Women and also the young people with ideas to serve their government and move Anambra state forward In conclusion, I must say that this road which we have taken today to restore hope to the people of this great state shall not be smooth. A lot of us may be called names or even threatened but I tell you today that I am more hopeful that we shall overcome. For a coin to have two faces and for every negative index to have a positive reciprocal, then every problem must have an expiry date and in 2013 Comrade Tony Nwoye will retire and expel bad governance and failed leadership in Anambra state and WE SHALL OVERCOME Once again, I wish to again confirm that Comrade Tony Nwoye whom you all voted for during the state congress is still the candidate of our great party PDP and has been recognized as such by INEC I hope to meet you once again at the Amansea Junction on the 20th of September, 2013 when we shall receive Comrade Tony Nwoye and the National Working Committee of PDP as we flag off this campaign to restore Anambra State back to her glorious days Thank you Pharm Ikeagwuonwu Chinedu Klinsmann B.Pharm(Nig),MPH(Sweden),MFIP,MPSN,JP Team Leader Media and Communication Unit Comrade Tony Nwoye Campaign Organisation
Posted on: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:47:43 +0000
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