Ebonyi 2023: Former Senator Ali Ucha Joins Guber Race

By Nwogha Ndubuisi, Abakaliki Former Senator representing Ebonyi central district in Ebonyi state, Julius Ali Ucha Wednesday declared his intention to run for the governorship position of the state under the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

Ucha made the intention known when he paid courtesy visit to the State Working Committee of the Party at Akanu Ibiam International Conference Center, ICC, Abakaliki. According to him, “I am here to inform the party leadership of my intention to run for the governorship of Ebonyi state, come 2023. It is over a month now that the political space was thrown open by our leader and we are also aware that the zoning arrangement is that the governorship position will either go to Ebonyi Central or North”. “We also aware that the zoning committee has been graciously put in place to the micro zoning of where the governorship will go to. I am a man that complies with the rules.

The erstwhile senator who was the pioneer Speaker of Ebonyi state House of Assembly and two term Senator representing Ebonyi central promised to sustain the infrastructural development put in place by Governor David Umahi led administration. “One thing I have told myself is that i am not a desperate person. I have never been desperate. Nothing bothers me. My Hypertension is 110/70. We have to work hard and not take anything for granted”, Ucha emphasized. “I have told myself that I have a duty if by the Special Grace of God and elected the Governor of Ebonyi State; to maintain the standard of infrastructural development already put in place by the present administration; to sustain the gain and legacies which Governor Umahi already put in place and to secure the future of the people of Ebonyi state”. He added, “While maintaining the standard and sustaining the gains; in securing the future, the governor has laid the foundation for human resource development and empowerment. I will consolidate the human resource development and empowerment through education, agriculture, through sustenance of the state of the art health facility and through industrialization”, Ucha promised. Senator Ucha who's the first governorship aspirant to declare interest further urged the APC leadership in the state to open the space at the local areas so that aspirants can start to reach out to people and make the party vibrant in all the nooks and crannies of the State.