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Ikechi Emenike, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia, says 2023 is the year to end godfatherism in the state.

In his New Year message tagged ‘Year of Rescue’, Emenike urged Abia indigenes to vote for him to ensure good governance.

“This is the year to end godfatherism in Abia, the year to send looters out of government house, the year to break the chain of transferring power among people bereft of ideas of good governance,” he said.

He the 2023 general election presents “a great opportunity for us to take back our dear state from the plunderers of our collective patrimony”.

“We must rescue our state so that we can develop and make it great as well as truly God’s own state where transparency, accountability and people-oriented government would hold be entrenched,” he added.

The governorship candidate said if elected, he would “set up the building blocks of development” to activate a holistic growth of the state. 

He encouraged the youth to shed the hopelessness associated with unemployment, promising that he would see to it that jobs are sustainably created.

Emenike also encouraged mothers to renew their hope of a new dawn in Abia where they would be empowered to take adequate care of their families. 

He said they would enjoy the benefits of their children being gainfully employed after graduation from higher institutions.

“Abia is now at the threshold of the much-expected break from the past, characterised by persistent decay of infrastructure and looting of resources meant for project execution and salary payments,” he said.

“We must collectively make efforts as individuals, groups, leaders, stakeholders, fathers and mothers to rescue our state from the dark forces of stagnation. The chance has come.”