APGA

PRIMARY ELECTIONS

It is no more news that Nigeria is currently stinking and corruption is trying to choke us all to death.

This is few weeks and months to elections and Parties are preparing their primaries.

I want to use this opportunity to state that in the interest of the country and for all who want to fight corruption, that the Direct Primary system should be adopted as against the delegates primaries which is always marred by massive vote buying.

I belong to APGA and wish to call on all to lend their voices to the call for the PARTY to adopt the direct primary system for the forth coming Primary Elections, so that no one will impose any candidate or some group of people will not buy off the process.

If we cant build hospitals, cant we even fix our society, so that we will fall sick less.

I have been a regular in various markets in Nigeria, I have lived in the North, East and West and the same standard is what we maintain. We are humans and we need a hygienic environment to be able to live a decent life.

As a new comer to Nigeria, If you take a stroll to any market in Nigeria to get groceries or local food stuffs, you will end up been nausea (this feeling of wanting to throw up).

From the Unhygienic ways the foodstuff are displayed to the glory of insects to the mostly muddy floors that makes sure you will need to wash your feet with Dettol or any other disinfectant to be able to fight of heavy germs.

The Fish, Meat, both dried and fresh ones are the worst of the sections to be at, you will think it is a feast of carcass, abandoned to the earth, but alas, that is where millions of households get their supply.

Every section of our market is dirty and needs serious government attention. We need to act fast, curbing this through laws and regulations is better than building any ill equipped medical centre that receive the service of medical personnel once a week.

Constituency project is not what we need, we need a stable environment that will benefit all first. A law and an enforcement unit from the Ministry of Trade, Wast management Authority and a Sanitation unit will help set a minimum standard and enforce same, so that we can save our people.

As i will always say, we need idea and not money to improve the lives of Nigerians.

No one needs to display any meat in an unhygienic place and no one needs to be sick from eating dirty food.

Below is a clear picture of two worlds, one is Nigeria and the other is somewhere in East Africa.

I am not here for myself, but here for the betterment of all of us, so that we can have a sane society to live in. If we cant afford healthcare, let us live a clean life to avoid getting sick unnecessarily.

Support what is good and not just anyone. Election is not for you to choose just anyone, but for you to choose someone who can affect the general well-being of the society. No amount of money given to you by a politician can buy you a sane life, what gives a sane life is a sane society, were with little or nothing, you live a life filled with dignity.

Thuggery and election violence leads to this.

Collecting money from politicians and swaying elections to their favour leads to this.

Selling your votes leads to this

Not asking the right questions leads to this.

looking for money through politics leads to this

Voting because of religion and tribe leads to this

Not asking your leaders or aspiring leaders the right questions leads to this.

I decided to run for election, to show the young people like me, that anyone can be anything, regardless of background and social status.

I am blessed, i am not a multi millionaire, i am a man of little means, but with great faith. If my people listen to me and want to use me to make the society better and vote me, i will deliver good governance, but if they don't, We will all enjoy whatever their choice is.

But I will not want to hear or see people end up like the guys on the other side, i will like people to stand with their loved ones like on the right side.

Okekearu Kingsley

I AM TOO YOUNG TO RUN.

Born 28years ago, on the 15th day of July 1989, Okekearu Kingsley Chukwuezugo .O. a Nigerian competent youth with a desire to bring meaningful and realistic change to the Society through legislation.

Born in the then Abakaliki LGA of Old Enugu State, Eastern Nigeria, a Baptised Catholic and a boy raised and trained by well-respected Christian Formators.

He had his Primary Education from the age of 5 (Five) in 1995 starting at Assemblies of God Primary School Abakaliki and finishing same in All Saints Primary School, Okpaugwu Abakaliki.

He was the second best in the Common Entrance Examination, earning him Ebonyi State Government Scholarship by the then Governor Dr. Sam Egwu, He however choose to have a Catholic Education, having been close to many notable Catholic Priests as a child.

He graduated from Madonna Secondary School, Umuhuali, Ishielu LGA, Ebonyi State in the year 2007, while in Secondary School, he joined Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC/Caritas Nigeria) where he was active in election process training and monitoring from late 2006 till June 2007.

He proceeded to Madonna University Okija, Ihiala LGA, Anambra State, where he studied Law, graduating in the year 2012 with Honours and thereafter was admitted to the Nigeria Law School, where he completed his studies and was admitted to the Nigerian Bar Association on the 28th day of November 2013.

He applied and was admitted to Masters of Laws programme of the University of Lagos while still a serving Corps member and between 2014 and 2016, he completed his LLM programme in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, having taken special interest in Taxation, Comparative Corporate Law, Energy Law and Secured Credit Transactions.

He proceeded to serve the nation in the National Youth Service Corps, in November 2013 and completed same in October, 2014.

He was an active member of the NYSC Legal Aid, where he took up cases on behalf of Indigent members of the society in various courts in Nigeria. Was also a member of the Legal Aid team that went round Schools educating students on their legal right especially as it relates to Fundamental Human Right.

He was assigned by the NYSC to Campbell Law Firm, one of the fastest growing Law Firms in Nigeria, with special focus on Maritime, Aviation, Corporate Law, Property Law, Taxation, Intellectual Property, Mining, Oil and Gas, Energy, Secured Credit Transactions etc. He carved a niche for himself there and was retained after his Youth Service year and in the year 2016, he formed Sapiens Advocatis, a special service Law Firm that deals on Tax Advisory, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property and Advisory.

He has undertaken various training courses and attended various seminars aimed at participation in governance and good governance.

He is a youth with years of experience in administration, having worked with various boards of Directors of companies in major sectors of the Nigerian economy. He is a succour for making good and workable policies.

After years of relatively having a better life, he was caught by the total Neglect of the Country by its managers and the poor state in which Nigerians grapple for survival, and seeing his childhood friends and adults he used to know as a kid living a life he knows that can be made better by government policies, he answered the call to donate himself to political life.

His areas of key interest for joining Politics are:

• Health
• Security
• Potable water supply
• Agriculture
• Town Planning
• Tourism/promotion of local festivals
• Technical Education & Skills Acquisition
• Land Instrument Registration Reforms and Access to Small-Credit
• Women Empowerment
• Waste Management
• Transportation.

He is seriously interested in ensuring that the Healthcare is improved in the society, to be able to manage the health challenges in the country and provide jobs for medical personnel and health support service providers. He is also interested in providing a clean and safe water source for the society, through government channels of Potable water supply,
On Town Planning, he sees thousands of Jobs that can be created by proper town planning and numbering of premises Etc.

He might be the youngest for now in the race, but he doesn’t count on just being young, he banks on being competent to tackle challenges too.

A man who has found his political tent in the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), he is a candidate vying for a Seat in the Anambra State House of Assembly come 2019 and hopes to Represent the Nri people of Njikoka 1 Constituency.

WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ANAMBRA STATE.

We are a State with a large number of residents, heavy commercial activities, social functions and a lively people.

One of the major issues faced by man in the recent times is the issue of waste management. While a man can generate tons of waste, it is the duty of the government to manage the waste.

We have consistently had a reoccurring case of Cholera and many other disease caused by poor hygiene. We have an executive that is trying its best to contain the waste generated by the large number of residents. Only few states in Nigeria today are taking the bull by the horn, though through executive actions mainly, but the sector has lacked heavy legislative input.

Why do we need legislation to tackle this issue of waste? We do need legislation, because while a law is enduring, subject to amendment, executive policies are easily discarded or framework for implementation lacking. Executive policy is also subject to change as governments change.

What do we need in Anambra of today as it regards waste management? We the people of Anambra needs to have the best practice of waste management in the world, we need to use best practice to manage both our Solid and Liquid waste.

In waste there is Jobs to be created when managed properly, In the management, we have resources to be put to valuable use and to recycle.

As a widely consulted Solicitor and consultant on many projects, I am armed with the contact or resource person who working together we will give a solid legislative contribution to a legislation to effectively and efficiently manage the waste genrated in Anambra State.

We can do these things without money, we dont need allocation r constituency allowance to create jobs and make progress, the private sector is waiting for us to give them the room to play.

If Anambra has rich men and you want to attract them home, provide a field for them to play at home. You dont tell a man to come and invest at home, when it is only hotels and residential houses that are available to invest in, people need to have variety of choices as to where to dump their money.

Okekearu Chukwuezugo Kingsley is my name, i am coming to help change the face of Anambra through legislations.

Udene kpoo nku, oburu Arusi. Okuko anghi eje ogu be Nkwor. The present crop of Nigerians between 20-38 should learn to sit on the table or be on the menu.

Sit on the table and determine what is on the menu or be the menu and become an option.

Everyone shouting youth empowerment and forming groups just for peanuts. If you have so much time to form groups, why not ask for better healthcare, better educational institutions, better labour law and compensation, improved and steady plan on total electrification of Nigeria.

You think you are woke, Atiku said his Secondary school students are better than many graduates in Nigeria and i will not lie, i have been to ABTI Secondary school, and i have interacted with graduates from various backgrounds and i am ashamed to agree with Waziri Adamawa.

Buhari said you sit back and want things to be given to you, there was noise. As much as i want to oppose him on that statement, deep inside me, i know he is saying the truth.

Everybody that can be looked up to as a mentor is saying same thing about us and we rather than prove them wrong are busy making their statements appear true.

Bill Gates complained of Human development, we laughed and abused Buhari, but after abusing him, what next? are we not the people Billy-Billy said needs to be developed? are we not the ones he said lacks development and are we not the ones he said are not been developed?

You come on social media or other forums and for as low as N1,0000 (One thousand Naira) you start writing eulogies about a man or a woman whom you know deep down in your mind will not be able to help the society, but your only belief is that they will steal money and remember you in the looting spree. Let me now make it open to you, if you are following anyone who knows he or she is useless to the society, the person will assume you are a fool and wont even use you for the looting. People have young bankers, real estate gurus, farmers, lawyers, accountants who are fully engaged and enlightened to use for money laundering and you assume because they allow you to write on their behalf, they will allow you mess them up in their loots. They will use better people and abandon you and you might repeat the cycle for few more elections before family challenges take you out and you become another failed fellow in the society.

We need to wake up and think, free money from politics never saves the society or makes it better, it rather destroys the society.

The youths of this nation will through the All Progressives Grand Alliance, rescue this nation from the shackles of bad leadership and set it on a part of excellence, to guarantee the coexistence of all in a progressive and economically viable nation.

This is a page for the best brains the Party has and where ideas on how to improve various aspects of the nation will be discussed, solutions arrived at and communique issues to the party elected officials to implement.