* Accuse APC, PDP Candidates Of Spending Above Approved Limit for State Assembly Campaigns*
IUnited Progressive Party, UPP candidate for Ikeduru State Assembly election in Imo State, Hon. Chidi Emeagi says he remains the best and most experienced among all contesting with him.
Emeagi spoke on Darling FM Live Program “Politics 107” on Monday.
According to him, Ikeduru will experience the worst form of representation in the Imo State House of Assembly if a person of low intellectual capacity, someone who does not know anything about lawmaking is voted in on March 9th noting that it behoves on the people to shun sentiment now and do the needful.
The UPP candidate who is a development Journalist and Chartered Administrator said he was the Chairman Imo State House of Assembly press corps between 2007-2010, a period during which he attended several conferences and workshops with then lawmakers on legislative capacity building.
According to Emeagi, a number of bills passed into law during this period under review were generated and facilitated by himself among which were “a bill for a law to establish Imo State Centre for Igbo Language Research and Development and bill for a law to provide for safe blood transfusion in Imo State.
Emeagi who came first in some debates organized recently for candidates for Assembly election in Ikeduru said he will introduce into the House of Assembly once elected, a bill he has already prepared on comprehensive free medi-care for pregnant women and children to ensure that mothers and children between 0-5years have access to Medical Services in order to reduce the rate of infant and maternal mortality rate in the State.
He however decried the absence of State and Federal presence in his constituency despite its proximity to Owerri and vowed to change the ugly narrative if elected.
“It is a shame that no single commercial bank in Nigeria has its branch in Ikeduru, our roads are impassable, our Youths unemployed particularly graduates.
“Iho our local Government Capital was the first place crude oil was discovered in Nigeria and West Africa yet we lack everything.
He said “I urge you all to vote Ishi-Agu (Tiger Head) on Saturday. My election into the State House would herald a new Ikeduru wherein projects that have direct bearing with the yearning and aspirations of my people will be captured in the appropriation law and followed up to the latter to ensure their execution”.
The United Progressive Party Candidate therefore called on the electorate to jettison primordial sentiments and monetary considerations and vote for him (Chidi Emeagi) on the Saturday election stressing that he is only man with the magic hand to pull Ikeduru out of the dungeon.
Emeagi however accused the candidates of APC and PDP of spending above approved limit for State Assembly campaigns insisting that someone who spent about 200 Million to win a Assembly election cannot do anything for his people since the total monthly package for State lawmakers is about 5 Million Naira which includes salaries of his aides, drivers and other domestic staff.
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