By Nsan Ndoma-Neji, Calabar
A former governorship candidate of Labour Party, LP, in Cross River State, Bar. Imah Nsa Adegoke, has indicated interest to run election to occupy the office of the governor of Cross River State in 2023.
She promised to shift the cycle of injustice and inequity in the governance of the state, if she is allowed to occupy office of the state governor after the general elections.
Barr Adegoke made the pledge yesterday in Calabar during her consultative visit to leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the party secretariat, Mary Slessor Avenue, to inform party leaders of her intention to contest the seat of governor in the 2023 general election.
The woman gubernatorial aspirant stated that her ambition can only be achieved through a paradigm shift, which will be pursued through five key programmes and defined agenda with the acronym SHIFT, asking the menfold, whom she accused of occupying the seat of governor for too long a time, depriving the women from tasting power despite the fact that some women have been known to be better up than the men.
The one time chairman of Bonny Environmental Consultants’ Committee, between 1997 and 2002 said, “My vision is to shift this cycle of injustice and inequity in the governance of Cross River State, using it as an example of what Nigeria can again become if the proper parameters of justice, equity and rightness are once more enshrined as the fulcrum of social engineering.”
On fixing infrastructural facilities to better the lots of citizens of the state, the governorship aspirant promised to put policies in place to address both the tangible and intangible aspects of infrastructure, besides setting up a functional laboratory to solve the issues of crimes and revamp the state’s judicial systems to enhance transparency and justice.
She maintained that upon assumption of office as the state governor, she would come up with policies that will introduce backward integrated industrialization for agriculture, whereby the state mineral resources can be harnessed for wealth creation, rather than focusing on industries that are doing well in reality rather industries which she described as paper tigers that are hyped in the media
Adegoke promised to transform the TINAPA Business and Leisure Resort to a technology park, to boost the state tourism development that Cross River State was known for, adding that technology is the way to go for now.
The President of Imah Nsa-Adegoke Foundation averred that she has capacity to revive and revamp the economy of the state that is most ailing, stressing that she is the choice and not an option, averring that her visit to the party secretariat is to seek the support of the leaders and delegates of the PDP.
Responding, the chairman of the Cross River State chapter of the PDP, Venatius Ikem, expressed happiness with the kind of capacity exhibited by Adegoke, thanking her for not hiding on the guise of zoning and cardinal points to express her aspiration.
Ikem assured the aspirant of the party’s willingness to provide a level playing ground for all to participate in the process, stressing that the PDP, being a democratic party, is ready to offer level playing field to all the aspirants, notwithstanding the gender or senatorial district.
Ikem said, “All the women who have come before us here have been exceptional, but you top all of them.”
