Youths have endorsed the Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Dr Peter Mbah, as their preferred candidate for the March 11 general elections.
They said that Mbah’s manifesto, which covered education, health, agriculture, social infrastructure, youth empowerment among others, would take the state to greater heights if well implemented.
The youths gave their assurances at an interactive town hall meeting, tagged: “A Day with Peter Mbah: Dissecting the Philosophy of Tomorrow is Here”, which was organised by Kwado Peter Mbah, a frontline Mbah support group, held in Enugu on Saturday.
The Convener of Kwado Peter Mbah, Mr Monday Diamond-Ani, said that they resolved to rally youths for Mbah’s governorship project because of their strong desire to see a new Enugu State, which the PDP candidate envisioned in this “excellent manifesto”.
“We choose to support Mbah because of his competence, humility and what he has to offer the youths when he comes to power.
“Our gathering here today is to show that the youths of our state love him and that they need him at a time like this,” he said.
Diamond-Ani commended Mbah’s entrepreneurial exploits in the private sector, and added that the youth would leave no stone unturned in giving him victory in the March 11 polls.
Fielding numerous questions ranging from housing, education, social amenities, security, agriculture and the place of non-indigenes, Mbah described youths as the heroes and heroines of tomorrow.
The PDP governorship candidate said that his motivation was to create an enabling environment where the youths could fulfill their potentials, discover their hidden talents, and compete creatively within the emerging global order.
“You are the tomorrow that is here, literally speaking. How do we build that tomorrow? First, we have to adopt the can-do spirit, and second, create an enabling environment where you can thrive.
“Tomorrow is here, represents the compelling vision of the innate can-do spirit to better the lots of our people,” he said.
While explaining his sector-by-sector programmes for the state, Mbah called for integrated development programmes; maintaining that the youths were at the core of his governance philosophy.
He assured that he would surmount the plethora of challenges facing the youths by providing the facilities for their training, education, skill, human capital development and empowerment, and turning the youth into productive assets.
Mbah explained that with his laid down governmental policies, Enugu State youths could easily fit into the world of robotic science, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, mechatronics, e-commerce and Fintech that would give them an edge over others.
He promised to establish agro-allied processing industries that would hasten industrial revolution and lead to “Made-in-Enugu” products for export; while attracting investors by de-risking investment flow and providing the attractive environment through ease of business doing, infrastructure and security.
While encouraging the youths to see his candidacy as the best, Mbah assured that his policies would replace the traditional models of doing things with technologically-inclined models, which would give youths an environment often associated with developed nations.
The highpoint of the town hall meeting was the donation of personal computers to 10 youths, courtesy of the Kwado Peter Mbah group.
