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Army General joins Enugu LG Council race

Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi

From: Madu Ezenoha, Enugu

A retired Army Brigadier -General, Felix Okafor, has joined the chairmanship race for Ezeagu council Area of Enugu state, under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The forthcoming local government election in Enugu state is scheduled for November 4, 2017.
The aspirant, who pledged to make security one of his priorities if given the mandate to serve, is contesting the election in the local government area of the incumbent Deputy Governor of the state, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo.
Speaking with journalists shortly after submitting his completed expression of interest and nomination forms to the party secretariat in Enugu, Gen. Okafor, said he was spurred by the dogged fight against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari, in the country, stressing that if voted into office, he would replicate the anti-graft war in his
council Area.
The retired Army officer expressed satisfaction with the ruling APC manifesto, and President Buhari’s philosophy of governance, which, according to him, equally motivated him to pitch tent with the ruling party, describing the president as a man of integrity and honour.
Gen. Okafor hinted that his administration if elected, would be anchored on a six point agenda, which will include agriculture, education, healthcare, employment and infrastructural development.
In a brief remark, Enugu state chairman of APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, represented by the state Organising Secretary, Mr. Ifeanyichukwu Ede, had wished the aspirant well in his ambition.
The chairman, however, told the intending council boss, that APC, as a party for the progressives, believes so much in internal democracy, adding that it is against that backdrop that its leadership does not impose candidates on members during elections as allegedly obtained in other parties.
“In APC, it is only the people that determine who governs them, or who becomes their candidate during primary elections” Nwoye stated, reminding aspirants for various positions in the council poll of the party’s primaries slated for Monday, September 11, 2017.

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