Tony Okafor, Awka
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) and the 2023 Labour Party(LP) candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Victor Umeh has asked the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) to support LP in next year’s polls to get their problems solved.
Umeh made the call on Thursday during an interface with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University community wherein he unveiled his plans towards enhancing education if elected.
He emphasised on the need for the academic community to support the LP in the polls pointing out that the party had the solution to Nigeria’s problems including the challenges of tertiary institutions.
He said the LP presidential candidate and former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi would deploy his well-versed knowledge and experience in governance and administration in correcting issues pertaining to bad governance and insecurity in the country.
He maintained that Obi would create jobs for the youth, fix the country’s failing economy and permanently resolve the problems leading to industrial actions generally.
He urged them to support Obi( president) himself ( Senate) Prof Oby Lilian Orogbu, former Dean Faculty of Social Sciences who is contesting for the House of Representatives in Awka North/ South Federal Constituency and other LP candidates in the race.
For her part, the former Dean Faculty of Management Sciences and the LP candidate for Awka/North/South Federal Constituency, Prof Orogbu said she was in the race to make a difference as a scholar who had seen it all in the field of academics as a teacher, researcher and administrator.
She said Nigeria would need leaders who were enlightened and familiar with the challenges of their communities and the larger society.
According to her, LP would be the right party that would strive to make a remarkable change in governance through servant leadership, accountability and policies that would aid the socioeconomic development of the nation.
The meeting which was held at the Mr Smith Lounge in Awka had no fewer than 250 members of the University community in attendance.
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