“Obi is a boy, Ngige is a man” – APC candidate sings at Enugu campaign

The contest for the Anambra State governorship position continued on Monday with the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Chris Ngige describing both the Governor of the state Mr. Peter Obi and the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, as inexperienced.

Ngige, who was in Enugu to meet with the Anambra State Peoples Assembly, Enugu State chapter, went to the extent of singing “Obi is a boy, Ngige is a man”.

As he sang the new political song severally, the Anambrarians, mostly students, joined while it lasted.

According to him, Governor Obi spent four years learning the process of governance, adding that he only managed to achieve less within the last four years, “so he should pass and pass out”.

He described the APGA candidate and his running mate as strangers in the state, stressing that “you don’t lead people you don’t know”.

Ngige further stated that whereas he inherited a paltry N35000 in the coffers of the government as well as over N35 billion debt as governor in 2003, he was able to leave about N12.8 billion when he left office in 2006.

On the reasons why he wants to return to office as the governor of Anambra State, Ngige said he left there abruptly, leaving his work, with most of his aspirations unfulfilled.

The Senator promised that when elected into office, he would extend free education policy to SS3, as well make bursary and scholarship available to tertiary institution students.

He said he would open up farm settlements and school of agriculture, where youths interested in agriculture would be trained and given farm implements to engage in commercial agriculture.

He continued that “I’m going to change the secondary school curriculum to include things like painting, electrical wiring, tailoring, among others. Every person must be known for one trade, that is the system in Ghana, nobody in Ghana is without a trade”.

He accused Governor Obi’s administration of paying lip-service to the education sector, alleging that it had manifested in the loss of accreditation in many departments at the state owned university.

He said, “so why are they talking about continuity; is it continuity in kidnapping; continuity of poor quality of education; continuity of poor quality of roads; continuity in loss of accreditation? They said they are continuing with everything bad, we won’t allow it”.

The APC candidate faulted claims that he had performed poorly in the Senate, insisting that he had sponsored no less than 10 bills, attracted projects to the state, given employment to many youths in the state, among others.