Enugu: You’ve  made huge investment for your tomorrow by electing me’,  Mbah tells citizens.

 

.Pledges to dualize Enugu-Nsukka road

.LP rejects poll results

By Cosmas Chukwu

 

The  Enugu State Governor Elect, Dr. Peter Mbah has assured the people of the state that  he won’t disappoint them, saying they have made a huge investment by electing him.

 

He promised that his administration will embark on policies and programmes that will give comfort and joy  to the people of the state.

 

Speaking Thursday during his acceptance speech in Enugu the Peoples Democratic party PDP flagbearer in the Governorship election  expresed appreciation to the people for electing him, assuring that that the choice the made is clear.

 

“The choice you made is clear, You did not go through all those grueling moments for the sake of the fleeting berries of today.

 

“You made a huge investment for your tomorrow, for the tomorrow of your children and children’s children. You chose to deprive yourselves of the perishable and glittering rewards of now so that a greater tomorrow can come.

 

“In choosing us, you did not allow mundane reasons to stop you. You abandoned political party divides, religious denomination cleavages, clan and tribe.

 

“All you demanded was the candidate who would guarantee a tomorrow for you and generations of Enugu to come.

 

“Let me pledge to you, once again, that I will serve you and dedicate every of the 1,460 days that make up this initial tenure of office to serving you.

 

” I will remember the coarse road you travailed to get us here. In reply, we will speak resoundingly with policies of government that will give you comfort and rest of mind.

 

“As I told you during the campaign, the administration we will run will bring joy to your hearts. We will make you remember March 18, 2023 with a toothy smile.

 

” In infrastructure, health, tourism, education and development of our state in general, we will run a government that you can be proud of,” he said

 

Mbah disclosed that his first task will be to dualize the  Abakpa Ugwuogo Nike-Nsukka road.

 

“We are in a hurry to dualize the Abakpa, Ugwuogo Nike-Nsukka road, build a monorail from Enugu to Nsukka, Udi, Awgu and construct a ring road to connect all the 17 local government areas of Enugu State.

 

He added : “We are in a hurry to build a world class Theme Park in Enugu. We are in a hurry to establish Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in all the local government areas, as well as Agro-Allied Processing Zones and Industrial Parks in all our senatorial zones.

 

“We are in a hurry to unleash the tech talents in our young people, and grow and nurture their interest in business and vocations skills.

 

According to Mbah, “We shall build a School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), an Innovation Incubation Centre, as well as a Skill Enhancement Centre in each of the three senatorial zones.

 

The Governor elect promised to run an inclusive government adding “ Ours shall not be an administration by a section of the state. We shall run an all-inclusive government designed to provide an inclusive economic development for our dear state.

 

“As we bring water to all homes in Enugu metropolis in 180 days of our being sworn in, we shall bring water, in the shortest possible time, to Nsukka, Oji River, Udi, Awgu and others too.

 

“We shall frontally confront the infrastructural deficits in all parts of the state and no one will be left behind.

 

“Let me, at this juncture, call on everyone to join me in this task of chiseling a great tomorrow from the rock of a despondent today. In the elections that we ran, we are all winners.

 

” No one is a victor, nor is anyone vanquished. The task at hand transcends emotions, politics and other mundane divides.

 

“It is why I extend my hands of fellowship to all my colleagues with whom I ran the gubernatorial election.

 

“Our dear Enugu State is greater than all of us. Let us come together and give our people a tomorrow that befits their hard-work, industry and ancestry of greatness.

 

Mbah, was declared winner of the 2023 Enugu Governorship election on Wednesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.

Labour Party rejects Enugu governorship poll results

 

The Labour Party has rejected the result of Saturday’s governorship election that produced the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Mbah, as the winner of the poll.

 

The Independent National Electoral Commission had Wednesday night declared Mbah winner of the poll after the results of the controversial Nkanu East Local Government Area were accepted and recalculated over allegations of over-voting among others.

 

LP had through its agent, Dr Eugene Edeoga, on Sunday night, raised objections on the results of Nkanu East, stating that the elections were not conducted inline with INEC Guidelines.

 

He said that there was over-voting, manipulation of election results and non-use of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machine in the LGA.

 

 

 

 

He, however, demanded the results should be cancelled. On Monday, following the protests and petition, INEC suspended the collation and declaration of poll results. On Wednesday, INEC said it had revised the results and found out that there was manipulation and over-voting in Nkanu East LGA.

 

However, after allocating votes to parties according to what it said were genuine votes from the local government, the returning officer declared Peter Mbah of PDP the winner of the poll.

 

However, reacting to the results of the election as declared by INEC, the LP said it would not accept the result, adding the March 18, 2023 election was marred by widespread and wholesale rigging, intimidation of voters, doctoring, mutilation and manipulation of the results.

 

 

LP in a statement issued on Thursday by the State Publicity Secretary, Onuora Odo, stated, “It’s on record that the process of accreditation and use of BVAS was not followed in some of the pooling booths, especially Nkanu East.”

 

“It’s also on record that in the course of the collation of results, the results of Nkanu East showed monumental disparities between the number of registered voters and the total number of votes, but the obviously compromised INEC decided to disregard the provisions of the Electoral Act and went ahead to declare the conspicuously padded results despite complaints from the opposition parties.

 

“This was the reason why they deliberately delayed the announcement of the result to pave way for further manipulations.

 

“The position of the party, therefore, is that the result as declared by INEC on the 22nd of March, 2023, four days after the elections were concluded, was heavily doctored and does not reflect the wishes of Ndi Enugu State.”

 

He added, “In view of the foregoing developments, we are, by this media release, registering our dissatisfaction over the electoral irregularities and malfeasances activated and actuated by heavy financial inducements.

 

“Let it be known that our great party is poised to deepen the root of democracy in Nigeria and can not fold our arms and allow this level of the electoral heist to go unchallenged.

 

“In due course, the position of the party will be made known as we have started assembling our facts together to do the needful. Surely, this is a rape of democracy.”