The standard flag bearer of APGA in Nnewi North, Comrade
Smart Nonso Okafor has taken the victory trail to church, to thank God for
seeing him through, in a keenly contested primaries, which saw to his emergence
as the flag bearer of his party, in a bid to occupy the hallowed chambers in
2019.
While addressing newsmen after the church service, Comrade
Smart Okafor, said he was thankful to God, for making it possible for his
party, to have entrusted such a responsibility in his hands. He promised to
carry the people along in his legislative responsibilities to move Nnewi
forward.
He said that his focus is on ONAZI development bill, which
is to make sure that Nnewi North development interests is well represented in
the house. He stressed that the ONAZI development bill will be a project, ear marked
to project the development of Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka in the budget, as these
areas contribute to the major IGR of the state government in Anambra. He said
that he believes that if these 3 towns contribute enormously to the IGR of the
state, there should be major concentrate of allocation for projects in these
areas.
On youth empowerment, he said that he build on the capacity
of the youth, by empowering them internally, and intellectually, which should
be first before giving them money or any equipment as empowerment. He said that
he will empower the youths in other creative areas instead of giving them motor
bikes, barrow and keke etc, which he said is no empowerment, but rather an
empowerment that will help the youth to employ others.
He concluded by saying that it is better to lay one’s judgment
on testimonies of the past than promises of the future, and that based on his antecedents,
with the testimonies of people in what he has done in the past as a former SUG
President, it leaves no one in doubt that he will do better in the near future
if elected as the house member to represent Nnewi North at Anambra state house
of Assembly come 2019.