Abia 2023: Ikonne Declares Ambition To Run For Governor

The former Vice Chancellor of the Abia State University, Uturu, Professor Uche Ikonne, on Thursday declared his ambition to run for the governor of the state in 2023.

In a declaration speech at the Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Umuahia, Ikonne said he had something extra to offer than the other aspirants.

According to him, the extra things include experience, commitment, maturity and excellence.

He said he garnered the qualities through his discipleship to notable past leaders in the state in the academics and larger society.

Ikonne also said that his headship of the university and Abia State Polytechnic, Aba further helped to equip him for greater leadership challenges.

Ikonne said that his ambition was to build on the foundation laid by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu’s administration in Abia State.

He promised that the state under his watch would witness massive infrastructure development.

The governorship hopeful urged the party’s leadership to consider him for the ticket, saying that he had the capacity to win the race for PDP.

Following the declaration by Ikonne of his ambition to be governor, the Chairman of the party in Abia, Chief Alwell Okere, expressed delight over the quality of aspirants that had so far declared their aspirations to run on the party’s platform.

Okere said that the development provided the party with multiple choices of quality aspirants to choose from.

He assured the aspirants that the party had resolved to provide a level playing field to ensure that only the best got the ticket because of “the enormity of the battle ahead”. (NAN)

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