Ebonyi All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji, has promised to embark on aggressive reforms that would hasten the infrastructural development of the state.
The senator also said the APC in Ebonyi state has concluded plans to successfully host President Muhammadu Buhari for his campaign tour in the state today.
The candidate stated this when he kicked off his campaign at Ezillo in Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi.
While urging the electorate to vote out the PDP government, Ogbuoji said he would focus on tackling unemployment, civil service and education sector reforms, if elected.
He, therefore, appealed to the APC supporters at the rally to mobilise the people to come out and demonstrate their dislike for the PDP during the polls, adding that he was committed to the liberation and restoration of the state.
He promised to bring it back the ideals that the founding fathers fought for before its creation.
The senator regretted that Ebonyi was the only state in the federation without permanent secretaries saying that his administration would appoint permanent secretaries to oversee the government ministries.
“We will reform our civil service sector, appoint permanent secretaries to oversee our ministries, departments and agencies, pay our workers living wage and ensure that pensioners receive their pensions and gratuities fully and when due.
“We are going to ensure that their promotions are regular with accruing financial benefits; we will enhance productivity within the civil service by providing regular training and retraining of workers,” he said.
Further, he said: “We are going to reform and reposition our education sector to make products from our academic institutions compete favourably with their counterparts in other climes.
“Education is the foundation of every human development and so, we are going to prioritise our educational system to make it more service-driven.
“36 public secondary schools in our state have been black listed from writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE); if you are not educated, you will remain in perpetual slavery.
“APC government will give our people functional education to free them from bondage because education gives you freedom; education exposes you to liberty; education makes you self-reliant and more productive,” he said.
He urged the people to vote massively for APC candidates in the Feb. 16 presidential and national assembly elections and in the March 2, governorship and state houses of assembly polls.
He said that Buhari’s re-election would consolidate fight against corruption, infrastructural development, job creation and youth empowerment among others.
