As the Kogi State gubernatorial race hots up, Senator Nicholas Ugbane, a former chairman, Senate Committees on Power and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday declared his intention to contest the election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Ugbane, who made the declaration at the party secretariat in Lokoja, stated that his ambition was premised on the desire to turn around the fortunes of the state with special focus on education, agriculture, industrialisation among others.
He said: “The population of Kogi State is about 1.3 million and I have carefully articulated and synchronised the problems of the state and expressed the desire to ensure qualitative service delivery for socio-economic advancement of the state.”
The former two term federal lawmaker also pledged to resuscitate the ailing Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, ASCL, by completing and making operational functional units to provide jobs for the state’s teeming unemployed youths.
He added: “As one of my cardinal points, I will make sure that ASCL and the National Iron-Ore Mining Company, NIOMCO, came on stream to provide jobs for our teeming youths.
All it takes is the political will.” Ugbane, who presented his blueprint and manifesto, which he called “key gubernatorial specifics,” to the state party chairman, Mr Haddy Ametuo, said he would address “the infrastructural decay and untold sufferings of the people.”
