By Juliana Nwachukwu :
Former Anambra State lawmaker, who represented Onitsha North 1 in the State House of Assembly, Edward Ibuzo, has expressed confidence that the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) will dominate the upcoming local government elections on September 28.
Ibuzo who was the candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), representing Onitsha North/South in the Federal House of Representative during the last general election disclosed this at Alex Ekwueme Square during the APGA Rally for local government election.
He stated that it is APGA all the way because Governor Soludo has delivered dividends of democracy to the people, ”Anambra State is now APGA.
“The state has been progressing since APGA took over the mantle of leadership, Anambra is APGA and APGA is Anambra and I look up on APGA as a party that will one day provide president for this country”, he affirmed.
He also said that he was stopped from winning the election for the Green chamber because of the Tsunami of the Presidential candidate of Labour Party, (LP), Mr. Peter Obi.
According to him, the emergence of Obi as the LP Presidential candidate gave most of the candidates the opportunity to emerge victorious even if they were nobody and not known by the people who voted for them.
“Unfortunately those that were elected because of Obi have not been able to provide dividends of democracy to the people they represent. They are just there without any achievements. So those elected under the platform of Labour Party have disappointed the people.
“They never made use of their victory properly and I am highly disappointed in them. I hope the people are counting because the motive for them to be there has not been achieved,” he stated.
The former lawmaker disclosed also that 70 per cent of Nigerian politicians have no handwork but rather see politics as handwork which according to him, the situation plunged Nigeria into the present socio-economic and political quagmire.
“It is unfortunate that 70 per cent of Nigerian politicians don’t have handwork, they don’t have anything doing. You must have something doing so that if you are out of politics you go back to your business.
“I am now into oil and gas, I am also into estate management. When I was defeated by the Obi’s Tsunami, I went into my business. So politics is not business, you should look for something doing,” he advised.
* Nwachukwu is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State *