Former Deputy Governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial aspirant of 2019 general elections in Abia State, Comrade Chris Akomas has promised to hand over power to any candidate of the party that emerges from Abia North to fly the flag of the party in 2023.
Akomas who was speaking to journalists at his country home, Nenu in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state disclosed that he was an apostle of a 5 year single term in office for elective offices, especially, governor and presidential in order to give room for productive governance and seamless rotation of power across the three senatorial and the three major blocks of the country.
The former deputy governor who is also a BoT member of the APC used the opportunity to reecho his commitment to run for a single term in office if elected to govern the state in 2019, stressing that he would use his four years in office to accomplish all that he wanted to achieve while in office and leave legacies that would outlive his children’s generation.
According to him, he had already mapped out plans of turning Aba and Umuahia as mega cities through his government’s infrastructural policies and developmental plans for the two cities and other major cities in the state
Akomas who maintained that he has the leadership and administrative experience to lead the state in 2019 after serving in various governmental positions in the state said that the incumbent has tried his best, but wasn’t good enough and stressed that he would do better if given the opportunity to govern the state.
The APC gubernatorial aspirant who also contested for the state’s exalted sit against his then boss and incumbent senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District in the Red Chambers also refuted the insinuations making rounds in the state that he is being paid by the Okezie Ikpeazu.
It has been alleged in some quarters as well that Akomas who is jostling to emerge as APC candidate in order to clear the path for the smooth return the incumbent PDP led administration in the state to return in 2019. But Akomas said he considers such rumours as insulting and baseless.
He assured the party faithful and his people of Obingwa that he is contesting for governor to win and change Abia and not to pave way for anybody.
He added that the people peddling the rumours only continued from where they stopped in 2010-2011, but vowed that this time around, their propaganda will fail.
“I have heard a lot of things since I declared to run. Some persons have said that I am on Abia government payroll. They said that government is paying me to contest and I see it as very insulting. Have these propagandists forgotten that I was a former Deputy Governor and as a result of that, I am entitled to some payment due to me.
“Today, I am in court with the state government because they are not even paying me my entitlement as former Deputy Governor yet people are making fake stories.
“I am not running for Okezie Ikpeazu or anybody. I am not looking for name now because I already have that. I am contesting to win and to be sworn in on the 29th of May 2019. This happened in 2010-2011, people spread rumours that because I was close to Orji Uzor Kalu that if I become governor that I will be a stooge to Orji Uzor Kalu.
“People forgot that T.A Orji and those who were saying that was also a Chief of Staff to Orji Uzor Kalu for eight years. The rest is history that I don’t want to dwell on. Our people have short memories. I want to sound it clear; I am not on anybody’s payroll. I am running as Chris Akomas. I am running to win and this time around, I am going to win.”
The former Deputy Governor continued and said, “They did such propaganda then, but it will never work for them this time around. They are also saying that an Abia South man cannot handover after getting four years from APC, but that’s not true. Abia Charter of equity must be respected and I stand by it. As our primaries come, be it Direct or Indirect; tell those who want a better Abia to vote Akomas.
“Yes, Ikpeazu is my brother. Eziuche and Erondu Junior are my brothers. They are all my brothers. I can’t cast my brothers away because of politics. But I remain committed to my party APC and that is where my loyalty lies. I don’t play politics of bickering and enmity. I don’t want enmity and nobody should bring it to my doorstep.
“From the beginning, God used our leader, Orji Uzor Kalu to give most of us the opportunities to serve this state. I have served this state in various capacities. I came to serve Abia from International background because I was working on World Bank Projects. I am into this contest because I have a lot to offer and I know what to do to change Abia for good that even if I tell others to do, they may not be able to deliver it properly.
“I want to be governor so that I can help prioritize things well and have the opportunity of using executive powers to open channels of revenues that are abound here that we have ignored over the years. To make Aba the commercial city it ought to be in Africa. I have done the needed research about Aba.
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“I want to grow our economy properly. Experience and knowledge come to play when issues like this come up. My desire and purpose for contesting is to deliver all I can for public good. I want to be remembered for good so that people will talk about me after several years just as they do for Michael Okpara.
