Abia 2019: APGA Chieftain warns politicians against politics of calumny

A chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Ebere Uzoukwa, has cautioned politicians and political parties against resorting to campaign of calumny apparently to tarnish the image of their opponents ahead of 2019 general election in the state.

Uzoukwa in a chat with newsmen in Aba, the commercial nerve of the state who said that he was worried over the rate of abuse and character assassination among candidates vying for various elective positions including supporters loyal to various party candidates, urged them to sell their respective candidates to the electorate by adhering to issue-based campaign.

According to him, elections are not won on the viciousness of verbal attacks which said has unwholesomely become a campaign tool of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates and their supporters.

Uzoukwa who recently resigned his position with the Abia State government to join the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the state described Dr. Alex Otti as the most popular and the right man with the capacity to reposition Abia State.

The APGA chieftain who stated his conviction that Otti was the right man to deliver Abia from its present state said, “I am confident that Abians will definitely do the needful by critically assessing the government in power within the context of its achievements; study the antecedents and character of the competing candidates to enable them vote wisely in 2019. That Team Alex Otti shall always remind them the need to change the present but dangerous trend via democratic means and by voting into power a competent and purposeful government than can rightly formulate the appropriate policies, create the framework and design people-oriented programmes.

“Dr. Alex Otti’s resolve to offer himself again to Abians after the wicked manipulations and violent malpractices that denied him the mandate freely expressed by Abia electorate in 2015 is a direct and patriotic response to the ceaseless yearning of Abians and residents for a change.

“Abia State needs real change and not the one based on empty sloganeering, false promises and deceit. Abia people are yearning for a change that is real, tangible, purposeful and sustainable; A change that is verifiably defined with deliverables and structured agenda which Dr. Alex Otti OFR offers to Ndi Abia”.

Uzoukwa also described Dr. Otti as an illustrious son of Abia and a well respected Nigerian who was able to prove his leadership capacity beyond doubt while in the banking sector before resigning honourably to serve his people.

“Dr. Alex Otti, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Governorship Candidate for Abia State is a well known and respected Nigerian whose record of achievements and antecedent ‘earmarked’ as a role model to many Nigeria and Abia youths.

“It is morally wrong and uncharitable to vilify such an illustrious son with towering reputation and excellent credentials on the basis of politics for mere resigning from the banking job as Group Managing Director/CEO of Diamond Bank Plc, having actualizing his personal dreams and goals, to devote his energy and resources towards serving his people in the area of governance.

“He should be rather applauded and supported in his renewed desire and crusade divinely aimed at midwifing a better Abia in 2019. Those attacking him ought to have known before now that campaign of calumny orchestrated to smear Dr. Otti’s character has resorted by the Government of Abia State and other competing political camps will definitely not erase his enviable record as evidently documented in the history book”.