IGWE SWORN IN AS ANAMBRA PDP CHAIRMAN

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By Iheanyi Chukwudi

A reputable engineer and grassroots politician, Engr. Chigozie Igwe, has been sworn-in as the Anambra state Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Igwe and twenty others were inaugurated as new State Caretaker Committee members on Wednesday in a brief ceremony that was conducted by the Zonal leadership of the party at their South East zonal Secretariat in Enugu.

The composition of the Igwe-led Caretaker Committee by the National Working Committee (NWC) and its subsequent inauguration in Enugu by the South East Zonal Chairman of the party, Chief Alli Odefa, were commencement of actions geared towards returning the state to PDP.

Other members of the 21-member committee are the Secretary, Clem Ezika, Chukwudi Nweke, Ezinne Patricia Onyia, Onuigbo Ndubuisi, Ikechukwu Chukwudelu, Chukwudi Okoye, Chief Ezeobi Okpala, Okey Asolo, Jude Oguejiofor, Echezona Agba, Promise Okongwu, Dr. Obumneme Nnoli, Remignu Okeke, Ebere Onukwo, Williams Obiora, Ndu Ikokwu, Ugochukwu Adileje, Onyeka Okeke, Nze Nath Uforali and Dr. I.G. Ngini.

In his acceptance speech, Igwe commended the National Working Committee of the party led by Amb. Umar Damagun whose action he said conveyed a message of hope towards rejigging the fortunes of the party in Anambra state.

Igwe thanked the founding fathers of PDP and all stakeholders at various levels of the party's structure including the Zonal leadership led by Chief Odefa whose immense contributions he said had sustained the progress of the party.

He said, "This appointment is an operation to return Anambra to PDP. It is a call to duty which we must administer with due diligence, truth, equity and Justice."

:We know that the challenges are enormous but we are prepared to conquer with special support of our eminent elders and stakeholders whose sacrifices have enabled this initiative. We will not disappoint them but will carry everybody along to achieve the desired results."

The new chairman stressed that Anambra state remains a traditional stronghold of PDP waiting for activation of the people's commitments through a leadership that is determined to re-ignite and re-new it's people oriented social contract that will give a pride of place in governance to Ndi Anambra, assuring, "That is one of our primary objectives."

Earlier, the South East Zonal Chairman of the party, Chief Alli Odefa charged the new Exco to uphold the manifestos and ethos guiding the PDP which according to him lies solely on internal democracy and practice of democratic tenets for the good of the people.