The people of Abatete Community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State have pledged their support for former Anambra Central Senator, Uche Lilian Ekwunife, ahead of the 2025 governorship election in the state.
The people made their position known on Thursday in Eke-Abatete market square Abatete, during the official commissioning of Senator Uche Ekwunufe Market Stalls.
According to them, the gesture and other uncountable projects the Senator, who is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has attracted to the area during her service in the Senate were reasons behind their support.
The President General of the community, Chief Sir Laurence Okoye, while commending the Senator for the kind gesture, noted that the market stalls will serve not only Abatete community but other neighboring towns.
He described Ekwunufe as a “deserving daughter of Anambra State.”
On her part, Iyom Azuka Ezeigwe, the President General of the community (Women wing), who disclosed that the project was initiated by the women wing, said Abatete women will continue to stand by Ekwunufe in anything she thinks about in her future pursue.
“We the people of Abatete, with what Senator Uche Ekwunufe has done for us, we are going to stand by her. We want to give back the love she has been showering on us all this while. So we’re going to support her,” she said.
Senator Ekwunufe while addressing the people, said she build the market stalls with her personal money.
According to her, “what have just done now is from my personal purse. I dedicated this project as one of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“I want to use this opportunity to appeal to you all to key into the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr. President in order to get the needed dividends of democracy. I also want to appeal to you all to continue to support President Tinubu to move the country forward. The President is doing well and very soon Nigerians will begin to see the Renewed Hope Agenda manifesting.”
She commend the federal government on the Second Niger Bridge, the ongoing construction of the Enugu-Onitsha highway and other projects of the APC-led government in the South East region.
. TheWitness
