PPA govt will introduce free education in Abia –Udensi

Progressive Peoples’ Alliance (PPA) has promised to make
education free in Abia State as well as tackle the poor
healthcare system in the state in order to enable aged persons
receive free medical services if it wins the February 28
governorship election.
The party said it was also going to harmonise taxes in the
state in such a way that the poor and women would be
exempted from all manner of tax payments while daily tickets
levy by trycles operators popularly called keke and
wheelbarrow pushers would be abolished.
Speaking during a rally of PPA in Aba on Thursday, the party’s
governorship candidate, Chief Chikwe Udensi said if he wins
the election, his administration would introduce masses ori­
ented programmes, as according to him, the people of Abia
State have suffered over the years.
“Our people have suffered over the years because the present
government is not people oriented and the little they claimed
to have achieved does not in any way benefit the masses.
“That is why we have carefully drawn up programmes such as
free education, free medical services for the aged, abolition of
tax payment by the very poor among others to alleviate the
sufferings of the poor masses and all these things we are go­
ing to implement if we win the election”.
The PPA governorship candidate said his first assignment if he
becomes the governor of the state would be to declare Aba a
disaster area, stressing that he would relocate and live in Aba
for two years to be able to supervise the reconstruction of
roads in the city which contract he said would be given to
reputable firms.
Reminding the crowd which thronged the Recreation Club field
venue of the rally that Igbo is one, Udensi said his admin­
istration was going to do those things that would unite
Ndigbo rather than disunite them.
In this wise, he said that all workers in the state whose ap­
pointments were terminated for being non Abians would be re­
called and their arrears of salary paid because according to
him, they were wrongly sacked.
He promised to provide meaningful jobs for the youths and
take care of the welfare of the disabled in the state.
Earlier, the state chairman of the party, Prince Emeka Okafor
said there was no party in the state that was structured to
take care of the people of the state except PPA which he said
was founded to bring prosperity to the people.
Okafor said although those the party handed over power to,
deviated from her set goal, he assured that if PPA regains
power in the state, it would right the wrongs of the past.
Also speaking, Ada Abia, Miss Onyekachi Atulomah recalled
how during the administration of Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, she was
in secondary school and enjoyed free education.
She said with what is happening in the state today, that Abia
needs change and urged the people to vote for PPA which she
said would bring the needed change.