A stalwart of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA in Abia, Major Gen. Ijioma N. Ijioma (Rtd) has formally declared his intention to contest for Abia State governorship in 2023 with an assurance that he will run the bigger political parties, the PDP and APC out of the state to emerge governor.
While declaring that it is better to be underrated than overrated, the retired military officer said the same way David of the Bible was looked down on when he defeated Goliath is the same way he will spring surprises in the guber election.
Ijioma had joined the party on January 14, 2022, in his ward.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen on Thursday during his official presentation to the state leadership of APGA at the party secretariat in Umuahia, the governorship aspirant dismissed insinuation that he lacks political structure to seek the number one office in the state.
He said he has for long nursed the ambition of becoming the governor of Abia, adding that he is the founder of Ijioma Leadership and Youth Development Association, ILAYDA a body he hss been using to conduct leadership training for youths.
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According to Ijioma, he has Coordinators in the 17 local government areas of the state in addition to 3 others at the Senatorial Districts of Abia.
“By the way, as I entered APGA formally, and they accepted me, I am going to take over the structure of the party since I am going to rebuild the party.
“APGA has been somehow dormant but somebody like me is stepping in with sincerity. I can’t make empty promises” he said.
He said his attraction to APGA is because his character and belief agree with that of APGA, adding that the party having not been in power in the state has not been corrupted and cannot be faulted.
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