A front runner in the race to succeed Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu as Abia governor in 2023, Sir Chikwe Udensi has said he is sufficiently qualified and has a proven track record of excellent performance in service, saying the success he recorded as General Secretary of National Union of Local Government Employeed, NULGE is there for all to see and can be replicated in Abia if he is elected governor.
While stating that he effectively ran and managed the affairs of the union which has all the 774 local governments in Nigeria as members, the APGA chieftain noted that managing the affairs of Abia with only 17 local governments will not be a difficult task for him.
Speaking on a radio programme, Open Parliament on Love FM Umuahia, streamed live on ABN radio and TV on Wednesday, the Interpol Systems Consultant expressed dissatisfaction that people who do not have a proven record of performance end up as leaders, a situation he said has affected good governance.
Sir Udensi was reacting to the long period of campaign, not less than 150 days before election available to political parties in the newly signed Amended Electoral Act.
He said the elongated campaign period will offer political parties and their candidates opportunity to go to hinterlands to tell the people their manifesto and what they have done in the past to make them best for the office they are vying for.
“It is an opportunity to keep away this fire brigade attitude. If anyone is coming to seek for public office, let him or her go to the people and tell them this is what I did yesterday and this is what I intend to do tomorrow.
“The problem we have today is that some of those who go in there are learning. They are hungry and don’t have home in their places. The moment funds are at their disposal, they start building their own homes and neglect the people.
“Most of them do not even have a business. You cannot give somebody who does not have capacity to generate one million Naira your business to manage.
“That is the problem we have. Let them go to the public, tell what they can do so that the people can make a proper judgement.
“We are gradually getting there, as obtained in other parts of the world where only those who have capacity to deliver are given the job,” he said.
