"Ensure you come out and cast your ballot. Vote the new men with new vision for a new Delta State. Vote the African Action Congress (AAC)," he said.
With less than 48 hours to the conduct of the governorship and house of assembly elections, Frank Ufuoma Esanubi, governorship candidate of thr African Action Congress (AAC), has passionately appealed to Deltans to wisely cast their votes for all the candidates of AAC across the state in the March, 9, 2019 elections.
Esanubi, who made the appeal on Wednesday, while addressing a press conference at the Frank Ufuoma Esanubi campaign secretariat, Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of the state, cautioned Deltans against casting their votes for the wrong people, which he said would "usher in another four years of unemployment, waste, hunger, death, misery, underdevelopment, and backwardness".
The AAC governorship candidate noted that a vote for AAC "will usher in four years of aggressive industrialisation, jobs creation, transparency, public sector reforms, accountability, security, human capital development, and much more".
"Ensure you come out and cast your ballot. Vote the new men with new vision for a new Delta State. Vote the African Action Congress (AAC)," he said.
According to Esanubi, the AAC candidates are not typical Nigerian politicians, who take politics as a career. He said they see politics as a call to service.
He continued: "We are political interventionists and corrective politicians who share in the pains and disappointments of all Deltans in the hands of the umbrella, and broom bearers. I am a chartered accountant, and I work with an international oil company, while Udoka is an ordained minister with the Nigerian Baptist Convention.
"In the past few months, we have been to about 250 communities in the 25 Local Government Areas of Delta State, walking and working towards a new Delta State. Through our presence in the communities, manifesto, and programmes, we have demonstrated our commitment to a new Delta State.
"Our programmes include linking up the riverine parts of Delta State with coastal roads, and bridges; providing free, and qualitative education with significant autonomy for public owned schools to compete favourably with privately owned and foreign institutions; the establishment of a car assembling plant, and service centres in the three senatorial districts through public-private-partnership; reviving ailing industries through a state-backed asset management company for greater jobs opportunities for our people.
"The institutionalisation of micro finance banks that will revitalise State economy through the provision of single digit loans for traders remain second to none. The vision to establish agro-based factories in the 25 Local Government Areas in the state, based on their area of comparative advantage; to provide free medical care for different sections of our people; to reposition the LGAs as centres for grassroots development through discontinuation of sundry deductions from local government allocations; and to ensure safe neighbourhood through the establishment of Delta State Neighbourhood Safety Corps remain unrivalled.
"Our drive to establish, within six months, emergency communication centres across the state, with dedicated toll-free emergency number (112) to handle distress calls for security, fire, traffic and health emergencies; ensure better, and prompt bursary packages for students; create Delta Silicon Valley/Vocation City, and green energy development centre in the three senatorial zones; build 1,000 MW power generation plant with electricity dedicated for use in Delta state via our embedded power projects in partnership with other stakeholders.
"Collaborate with international oil companies operating in the state to relocate their headquarters to the state; to work with private sector to establish partly owned airline(s) in Delta State and make the state a major hub for air transportation, remain the pathway to a new Delta State. Our drive for a reformed civil service that will ensure prompt payment of salaries, promotions, modulated welfare packages, additional career opportunities, the domestication of global best practices, and prompt payment of gratuity and pension benefits to our retirees is a pathway to a new civil service.
"Educational reforms through introduction of bi-curricular programmes in state-owned tertiary institutions that will ensure the integration of skill acquisition to knowledge gain; to empower graduates with business start-up funds of one million Naira, and artisans with five hundred thousand Naira; provision, and sustenance of basic amenities for all, irrespective of one's location in the State, and the evolution of a Delta State for all, irrespective one's state of origin, are pathways to progress.
"Our journeys throughout the state exposed to us the reality of hunger, and the culture of hunger-induced politics being promoted by those who are against the people, and their development. While there is a consensus on the fate of the state in the hands of the current political leaders, many among the populace are more interested in what they can get instantly from politicians in exchange for another four-year term of hunger, unemployment, deprivation, insecurity, backwardness, and underdevelopment. In the midst of these challenges, we kept to our guiding philosophy: sacrifice on the parts of all stakeholders remains the foundation for an egalitarian society."