Uwajumogu Grass root Movement Inaugurated

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Benjamin Uwajumogu
Benjamin Uwajumogu

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The Uwajumogu Grass root Movement, a group adopted by the Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu, for the sole aim of fast ?tracking development to the door steps of rural dwellers, mostly youths??in Okigwe Senatorial zone of the state, has formally inaugurated over 350 leaders/members of Isiala Mbano local Government Area Chapter.

Performing the inauguration, the zonal coordinator of the Movement, Hon. Ugwu Osuagwu, praised the foresight of the Speaker in ensuring that every nook and cranny of the zone feels the positive impacts of democracy dividends, adding that his grass root philosophy has opened the windows of opportunity to communities to articulate their developmental needs to the Speaker for prompt actions.

He extolled the leadership attribute of the Speaker, especially his maturity in handling the affairs of the Imo State House of Assembly to its enviable standard, as well as his deep-rooted grass root posture, aimed at feeling the bulk pulse of the people.

Hon. Osuagwu pledged a total commitment and support of the over one thousand members of the group in the area and indeed, the people of Okigwe zone to enable him represent them at the upper legislative chambers of the National Assembly come 2015, with the aim of sustaining the massive rural developments being witnessed across the zone.

A former deputy Chairman, Isiala Mbano Local Government Area, Hon. G.C Obioha, in his speech, appreciated the genuineness of the Movement in their effort aimed at correcting the imbalances of the past by standing solidly behind the Speaker.

He praised the sincerity and honesty which he said Rt. Hon. Uwajumogu represented, adding that his style of politics has created a new brand of politicking in their climes, while thanking the Speaker for influencing the appointment of some indigenes of the area into positions of trust and urged him not to relent.

The former deputy Chairman, also decried the lackluster attitudes and poor performances of past representatives of the area at the National Assembly and called on his kinsmen to brace up the challenge of emancipating the zone from the age-long political bondage which they had been subjected to.

Earlier in a keynote address, the zonal women leader of the Movement, Mrs. Blessing Nwachukwu, who was visibly elated at the event, pledged the unanimous solidarity and support of Okigwe women to the Speaker whom she described as being gender sensitive and an accomplished family man, who has united the people of the area across party lines for purposes of common development.

She however, urged the Okigwe sons and daughters to rally round Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu, in his quest to represent the zone at the Senate, as according to her such distinguished office requires a tested and trusted personality like the Speaker.

.Highlight of the event was the formal and Unanimous adoption of the Speaker as the sole candidate of the area for the forth-coming Senatorial election in the zone??

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