Ebonyi 2027: Our Mandate Will Not Be Stolen Again, Anyichuks Declares as He Joins Governorship Race
The 2023 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and 2027 hopeful, Chief Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii has said that he was again contesting for the Ebonyi State top position because there has not been any improvement in the lives of the people and the economy of the state.
Chief Odii who spoke to journalists after he submitted his nomination forms and was successfully screened by the PDP screening panel at the Legacy House, Abuja said that at this critical time, “Ebonyi State requires leadership.”
Chief Odii stated that since after the 2023 general election, “poverty has rather increased in Ebonyi State” despite the humongous federal allocations that have accrued to the state. He declared that Ebonyi State today urgently needs someone with the capacity for “economic and human capital development.”
According to chief Odii, “poverty and insecurity have continued to increase in Ebonyi State” and that is why we have decided to “get it right this time.”
Speaking further, Chief Odii noted that for democracy to grow, there has to be “a strong opposition.” He said that any “opposition with constructive ideas is welcome,” insisting that “any government or society that says there should be no opposition is a dictatorship, and we will not allow dictatorship in Ebonyi State, so we have come today to let the whole world know that Anyichuks is now running to be the governor of Ebonyi State.”
The business mogul explained that a prosperous future of Ebonyi State is blind to clannish sentiments, declaring that “when they are talking about ‘you are not from North, you are not from Izzi,’ and all that, I am from Ebonyi State before Izzi, before Onicha local government, the day I was born, I was born as somebody from Ebonyi State. “Ebonyi State is not going to be governed on the basis of clannish politics.”
He reiterated that he has, through his foundation reached out to all the nooks and crannies of Ebonyi State, and the fact remains that the poverty crisis in the state is not limited to any clan and at each point his foundation intervened, there was never a boundary of acceptance.
Chief Odii who expressed confidence that he strongly believes that he will secure the PDP ticket at the primary election also assured the PDP and his supporters that “our mandate will not be stolen again in 2027” as he will be victorious at the governorship primary election and the February 2027 general elections.