Governor of Anambra state, Willie
Obiano, on Friday said the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, will be
reelected by the people on November18 because of its achievements in developing
the state.
Obiano stated this while
addressing newsmen after submitting his nomination form for the election at
APGA’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
He said: “I am happy to be here
to submit my completed party nomination form. I am very ready for the fight
purely because APGA has done very well in Anambra and the record speaks for
itself.
“We have been paying all workers’
salaries, pensions and gratuity. We have also been working on infrastructure in
the state and when compared with three years ago, you will see major
difference.
“We have done well over 320
kilometres of road. More importantly, the last government that ruled the state
for eight years was APGA; so, it a continuous thing.’’
Obiano said that he had completed
80 per cent of the road projects awarded by the last administration, without
abandoning any.
He said that the Onitsha Hotel
and the mall in Awka were great legacies of his administration, adding that the
Golden Tulip project would be open for business before Christmas.
The governor said that over 37
communities had been connected to the national grid, with street lights in most
places.
He said that 181 communities in
the state had benefited from government projects and that all the communities
had completed their first set of N20 million projects, and that 82 communities
were already working on second phase.
Obiano said: “So, you will see
the imprint of APGA in every community because we have carried out projects in
every community. So, the same party bolstering that will go for second term; we
will win and win very decisively.
“This second term will help me to
institutionalise the beautiful things that we have been able to do in the first
tenure, particularly in the area of agriculture.
“Today, Anambra is
self-sufficient in rice; when I took over in 2014 we were doing over 80,000
metric tonnes but today, with the addition of Ofuma integrated rice farm, we
are doing 375 tonnes.’’
Obiano said that the state was
targeting 578,000 metric tonnes in 2018, adding that since the state consumed
320,000 metric tonnes, it means that it was already self-sufficient in rice.
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