creation of an additional state in the South-East and also address
issues of infrastructure decay in the zone if re-elected.
He described the geopolitical zone as his political taproot and
promised not to neglect it if he wins Saturday's election.
The President made the promises in two separate sessions with the Aba
business community and at an interactive session with stakeholders in
Owerri, Imo State.
Speaking in Owerri the president assured that he would ensure that the
recommendation of the National Conference on an additional state for
the region was implemented.
"The proper thing to do is to ensure that the South East geo-political
zone with only five states gets additional one as recommended by the
National Conference for equality before any other zone agitating for
additional state is considered".
Continuing, President Jonathan said he was elated by the massive
support he has been receiving from the South East zone, pleading that
the same support should be given to him and his party in the general
election to enable him consolidate on the achievements recorded by his
administration.
"The South East is the support base of the PDP and I am here again to
solicit for your support and blessings in the Saturday election. It is
a rare privilege for me because the South East has not supported
anybody the way they have supported me since 2011", Jonathan said.
Speaking earlier, the factional chairman of the Imo State Council of
Traditional Rulers Eze Cletus Ilomunanya, said that they are solidly
behind the re-election of President Jonathan who he said had done well
in the last four years.
Ilomuanya regretted that the number of traditional rulers in the state
who ordinarily would have joined in the reception for the president
was reduced on account of what he said was intimidation by the state
government.
Also speaking at Aba, Jonathan promised to quickly resolve the problem
between Geometric Power station owned by Prof. Barth Nnaji and some
power distribution companies to enable the company commence work to
boost the industrial growth of Aba.
"The South East, generally, I owe you so much. You have taken me as
one of you. Everybody knows that politically, I am stronger in the
South East. The South East is the tap-root of my political structure,
so I can't ignore the zone. Anything humanly possible I can do for the
zone, I will do it", he assured.
Reacting to issues of dearth of infrastructures and amenities in the
zone and Aba city in particular raised by both MAN and ACCIMA, the
President promised to tackle them if he wins on Saturday.
"We are worried by the falling of the Naira, we are aware that it is
affecting our business men and women. We will work with you; after the
elections we will sit down and discuss the next four years.
"We will see how we can quickly sort out the Geometric problem to help
Aba which has the greatest small scale enterprises in the country. Aba
as a city needs a lot of Federal Government intervention beyond the
issues of infrastructure you mentioned. Aba is a very key city, it is
an industrial hub; we must work together to improve it", the President
said.
Before the interactive session, the President had commissioned the
multimillion naira Alaoji Power Station and the Geometric.
--Vanguard
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