Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has berated the All Progressives Congressled Federal Government over its alleged failure to fulfill its campaign promises to Nigerians.
Ohuabunwa said that the APC had deceived Nigerians with its change mantra to win elections but had now failed to make good the promises it made during the campaigns for the 2015 polls.
The lawmaker, representing Abia North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, said this at a Town Hall meeting of the district at Ebem Ohafia, the headquarters of Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State.
He, therefore, appealed for patience among the people, advising them to remain focused and steadfast in their support for the opposition People’s Democratic Party, ”so that by 2019 it would recover its leadership at the national level.”
Ohuabunwa, who is a first term senator and the chairman, Senate Committee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases, urged Nigerians to go back to agriculture as a way out of the current economic hardship.
According to him, “Things are hard in the country but the worst is that there is no plan to make it better. The level of suffering in the country is unbearable. I want to be a farmer myself.”
The lawmaker said the town hall meeting was in fulfillment of his campaign promise to regularly interact with the people for the good of the district and commended them for their large turnout despite the various challenges.
He expressed regret that the projects he tabled before the Senate, including rural electrification for Isuikwuato and Umunneochi, road rehabilitation and erosion control were not included in the budget because he was not on ground in the National Assembly during the budget preparations because of the rerun election.
He said that he was not in the Senate for personal enrichment but for the good of the district, expressing worry that he and Governor Okezie Ikpeazu were the most embattled elected officers in the country today.
Ohuabunwa then called for the support of the district for the governorship bid of Abia South in line with the Abia Charter of Equity.
He argued that though Alex Otti and Uche Ogah were qualified for the office, they should wait till the South had served their tenure.
The lawmaker announced plans to establish a skill acquisition centre, loan scheme for women and youth, scholarship for indigent students and empowerment programme with new tractor for farmers.
He further said that arrangement had been concluded for SMEDAN to assist the people, just as he also planned to build, at least, a class room block in each of the five local government areas in the district.
Labeling those opposing him at the Election Petitions Tribunal as the real enemies of the district, he said,”despite their manipulation at the rerun, they still lost. It should have taught them that it is the hand of God.”
He urged the traditional rulers to resuscitate the age-old community vigilante groups to make the communities safe and avert clashes with herdsmen, assuring that the grazing bill would not sail through in the Senate.
