Dame Blessing Nwagba
By Dennis Okagoy
Supporters of Dame Blessing Nwagba, Senatorial candidate for Abia South, were recently urged to avoid intimidation by the shinanigans of those threatened by her popularity rise in the constituency.
Nwagba said this to her supporters at Ugwunagbo community during her campaign in the arena that she was the candidate to beat given her rise and acceptability across all gender in the constituency.
She therefore told her massive supporters at the campaign ground not to be perturbed by the intimidation strategy of her opponents as she would be victorious at the poll.
Said Nwagba: “I know they are threatened by my popularity and acceptability, never you succumb to their intimidation.
“Our opponents are worried about the defeat that awaits them, they may want to behave funny but refuse to be intimidated.
“We are on top in all the ratings do far for victory, and they are afraid but refuse to fall to their intimidation prank because we are soldiering higher by the day and God willing, victory will be ours”.
Dame Nwagba noted further that their growing popularity across the six LGAs of Abia South had shocked their opponents, putting them in disarray, urging her supporters make their final push to victory.
She thanked all the party members for finding her worthy to fly the party’s flag for Abia South Senatorial District in the forth-coming election, an opportunity she confessed, she did not take for granted.
Nwagba called on the people of Ugwunagbo to partner with her in the election, stressing that if she emerged victorious it would be a victory for all to consummate for the benefit of all.
The Senatorial candidate informed them that there were numerous opportunities and benefits that come with the Senate portfolio, which included job opportunities, infrastructural developments, contracts and appointments among others, promising to ensure the constituent enjoyed all benefits appropriately.
She enjoined the people of Ugwunagbo to see her as one of their own because her only daughter is married to an Ugwunagbo man and therefore would never fail them.
To the youths, Nwagba promised to ensure that federal job opportunities were given to them as a means of curbing social vices.
In the area of infrastructure, she promised to ensure that some roads in Ugwunagbo LGA were captured in the budget and that she would follow through until those roads were reconstructed.
On agriculture, she promised that she would help farmers get fertilizers, modern farm implements and ensure that farmers got Federal Government Loans/Grants that would aid their farming business.
She charged the women to rise to the challenge, counselling them that this was their unique opportunity to contribute their quota in the area of development/governance thereby changing the narrative.
To improve economic activities in Ugwunagbo LGA and bring further development in the zone, Nwagba noted that attracting a federal higher Institution would open the area more in terms of development, stating that while in the state House of Assembly she was very vocal.
She promised that when elected to the Senate, she woulf not be a sleeping Senator or mere bench warmer, pledging further to use her contact and network to attract Federal Government presence to the Senatorial District.
The APC candidate for Ugwunagbo State Constituency, Hon Chidi Onyeobia, in his contribution, assured Hon. Nwagba that the people of Ugwunagbo were not known for double standard.
He promissed her their total support, assuring the people of Ugwunagbo that Dame Nwagba PhD would not disappoint them when elected.
The Zonal Chairman of APC Abia South who also doubles as the Director General of the Total Blessing Campaign Council, Hon Justice Onwumelu, informed the people of Ugwunagbo that Nwagba’s candidacy was divinely ordained and that she would be the next Senator of Abia South.
He further said that she would bring development to Ugwunagbo and the Senatorial District in general.
Contributing also, Chief Uzoma Nwanmuo, the LGA party chairman for Ugwunagbo, told the people of Ugwunagbo that Hon Nwagba was the next Senator of Abia South Senatorial District because she was the one whom God had ordained to bring peace in Abia South “to avoid two brothers killing each other over that seat”.
He urged the people to come out in their numbers and vote for her on Saturday, February 25, 2023.
Mr Oliver Promise Esq, the assistant legal adviser of the Total Blessing Campaign Council, who is from the zone, told Ugwunagbo voters to hold him accountable “if Hon Dame Blessing Nwagba fails to fulfill her campaign promises to Ugwunagbo”.
The campaign rally attracted the presence of some members of the Campaign Council including Dr C C. Nwogu, a former Chairman of Aba South LGA, the State Auditor of the party, Elder Uzoma Ikeuka, among many others.
