A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has expressed optimism on the capacity of the party’s candidate, Tonye Cole to demonstrate competence in public service if elected as Governor in 2023.
Eze, the erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) said with an annual turnover of $11 billion, Cole’s Sahara Energy has 4,000 people under its employ and has operational bases in 38 countries around the world.
Speaking on the backdrop of Cole’s emergence as the Business man of the year put together by IgbereTV, Eze said fate has once more presented before Rivers people the opportunity to make a choice between meritocracy and mediocrity.
He said “unless they close their eyes against fanciful rhetorics, bias and financial inducements and deploy the power of conscience, the state may continue to slide deeper into the pool of retrogression in all respects as is the case in the present where the state and her wealth has been annexed to the Governor’s estate.”
Congratulating the Rivers APC Candidate, Eze said Rivers people must come together and repossess their state in order to be able to correct damages already done on the national image of the state and redeem her economy, which he said is “at the brink of collapse having been distressed by the various acts of economic wastage indulged by the current administration and her thieving officials.”
Similarly, he hailed the appointment of Alabo Michael West, as the Director-General of the Tonye Cole Campaign Organization.
The APC chief also expressed regrets that legislative business in the state has suffered and the duty of checks and balances have been consigned to history.
According to him, “members of the state assembly go home with fat salaries and allowances for aiding mediocrity at the expense of the suffering, jobless and abandoned public whose interest they ordinarily should represent.”
