Senator Athan Achonu has been declared as the authentic Imo Labour Party Governorship candidate for the November 11 Gubernatorial election and any other person laying claim to the ticket is a pretender and impostor.
This confirmation was authoritatively declared by the national leader of the Labour Party and the presidential candidate for the 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, and consolidated by the executive Governor of Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, during the impressive ceremony of the Imo State Labour Party Governorship Campaign Flag-Off, at the Kanu Nwankwo Stadium, on Tuesday, August 22, 2023.
Mr Peter Obi who spoke, while handing over party’s governorship flag alongside other leaders of the party to Senator Achonu, during the official flag off of the party’s guber campaign, urged Nigerians to continue to keep hope alive in the believe and conviction that a new Nigeria is possible.
Clearing the air on the issue, Mr Obi said when he joined the party he met Barr Julius Abure as chairman, and that he is still the party chairman till today, stressing that the national executive which he leads set up a competent primary election committee headed by a first class person, Dr Alex Otti as chairman, and Mr Valentine Ozigbo as secretary, that conducted the primary election which produced Senator Achonu as the candidate of the party.
He noted that the election process was free, fair, transparent and credible, adding that he came to Owerri to let the people of the state to know that the party has no other candidate in Imo State, apart from Senator Achonu, even as he urged them to massively support and vote for him.
He said LP remains committed to its vision of changing the Nigerian governance narrative and that of the thirty six state’s of the country, declaring that Gov Otti of Abia State is already demonstrating what the party stands for.
According to him, hope which was exiled in the state by bad governance has fully returned to the state, as a result of the good governance being given the people by the governor, pointing out that the hope on the faces and voices of Abians today, is a pointer to the good governance they are experiencing now.
The LP presidential candidate who’s in court challenging the outcome of 2023 presidential election generally perceived as deeply flawed, also reiterated his position that he has the capacity to fix Nigeria, disclosing further that what Nigeria needs today are people who do what they preach and not those who preach one thing and do another.
Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti who also graced the occasion which witnessed mammoth crowd of members and supporters of the party in Imo State, equally dismissed any other person laying claim to the position as fake and a pretender.
Governor Otti of Abia State said he was in Owerri to bear witness to the fact that he chaired the primary election committee, and that Senator Achonu was the man who won the election.
He made it clear that having become governorship candidate through a due and legitimate process, the party has thrown its full weight behind him and will give him all necessary support to win the coming election.
He told the mammoth crowd to ignore completely any other person or persons claiming to be candidate of the party, adding that anyone making such spurious claim is fake and a pretender.
Dr Otti said he was confident that Senator Achonu when elected will replicate what’s he’s doing in Abia in Imo, noting that even though his administration is less than one hundred days in office, so many good things have already happened in Abia State.
He disclosed that what is taking place in the state is as a result of the fact that Labour Party is action and people oriented, assuring that by the time he’s done implementing his roadmap for the state, Abians will testify to the uniqueness of LP.
The national chairman of the party, Barr Julius Abure told Imo people that having tried both APC and PDP and got disappointed by both of them, the November election offers them a good opportunity to chose a new product symbolized by Labour Party.
He further stated that the party stands for progress, productivity, security and welfare and assured that Imo electorate will reap those benefits if they support and vote the candidate of the party.
On his part Senator Achonu said his focus as governor would be on agriculture, industrialization and power generation, local government autonomy, infrastructure and return of the state to centre of entertainment and tourism, as well as security of life and property.
The governorship candidate Senator Athan Achonu said his manifesto is focused on growing and developing the state through power generation, establishment of agricultural parks, industrialization, resuscitation of infrastructure, security and return of the state back to its status as a the tourism and entertainment hub of Nigeria.
The #Take Back Imo Campaign champion said he was not making ordinary promises, but saying what he will do when elected, having already started as a private individual to implement his industrialization and security roadmap, with construction of a world class agro industry in Umunumo, Ehime Mbano LGA and Investment of over one million dollars in refurbishing of Imo Police Commands Armoured Personnel Carriers, APC for securing lives and properties of Imolites.
Senator Achonu who is flying the party’s flag for the November governorship election alongside Hon Tony Nwulu his running mate, vowed that his administration will never let the people down if given the mandate, even as he urged the electorate to vote him and his deputy in the poll.
The declaration of Senator Athan Achonu as the authentic Imo Labour Party Governorship candidate, has finally put to rest, arguments about the party’s genuine, bona fide candidate for the November 11 Imo governorship election.
