The Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti has rounded off his Tour of Isialangwa  North LGA as part of his LGA Campaign tours.

 

Speaking to a mammoth crowd of supporters at Nsulu and Ntigha respectively, Dr. Otti reminded the people of their enormous potentials which when harnessed would bring massive development to them, and promised to hit the ground running and begin a process of rebuilding the state immediately his government is inaugurated come May 29th 2023.

The governorship hopeful promised to raise the economic status of the people by initiating policies and programmes that would put money in the hands of the people, and disclosed his plans to set up Cooperative Societies for the empowerment of Women and Youths through Special Funds.

 

The ex-bank Chief informed the excited crowd that he would resuscitate the now moribund Nsulu Games Village, and ensure that it comes back to life, insisting that it would attract development to the area considering the impacts it has had in Sports development in Nigeria in the past.

 

Dr. Otti also expressed his readiness to establish a film village in Isialangwa North as part of his strategic plans to make Abia State a choice destination for the Nigerian film industry, Nollywood, which according to him, started in Aba many years ago.

“One of the few places I mentioned by name in my manifesto is Nsulu. I have said in the manifesto that I will establish a new Nsulu Games Village. There is also a second project that I will execute in Nsulu. I’m sure you know about Nollywood. Maybe you would not remember that Nollywood started from Aba, at Pound Road, before it got to Onitsha and Nnamdi Azikiwe Street in Lagos.

 

“There is nowhere in Abia that you have the kind of facility to produce movies. Most of the film makers go to Asaba, Delta State, to shoot their movies. So, what I intend to do is to set up a world-class entertainment village in Nsulu at the back of the Games Village. The idea is to develop Abia for tourism,” he disclosed.

 

Otti who has continued to be projected to win the Abia governorship election disclosed that he was not running the election based on ethnicity or any other primordial considerations, but because he is the only candidate, out of the pool, that has the capacity and preparedness to turn around the fortunes of Abia State for the better.

 

“I am running this election on the basis of capacity and on the basis of character, so, anybody who thinks he has more capacity than myself, let him come for debate. If I’m convinced that he has more capacity, I will step down for him and support him,” he declared.

 

Otti said the situation Abia is in today, is not one that requires an apprentice or a trainee as a leader, but someone very experienced and vast in the area of economics, and one who can sit down with the banks and other financial institutions and review and renegotiate the humongous debt being owed by the state. He further called on the people not to be deceived by politicians who are deairous of buying their conscience with stolen public funds.

 

He said “even without being in government yet, we have done much more for the Isialangwa community, in terms of road construction, than the government of the day in Abia.

 

For over 50 years, there was no road connecting Eketa to Eziala in Nsulu. None. That road is 19.5 kilometres. Go and ask the people in government if they have constructed a single stretch of five-kilometre road anywhere in Abia.”

 

Present at the campaign tour with Otti were the LP Senatorial Candidate for Abia Central, Hon Darlington Nwokocha; Isialangwa South and North Federal Constituency candidate, Hon Ginger Onwusibe; Isialangwa North State Constituency candidate Hon Ambassador Innocent Uruakpa; State Campaign Council Coordinator of the Alex Otti Campaign Organisation, Hon Iheanacho Obioma, Directors and members of the Campaign Council, party executives etc.