{"id":97898,"date":"2022-08-10T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=97898"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:04:20","slug":"2023-apc-chieftain-endorses-abia-pdp-gov-candidate-ikonne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2023-apc-chieftain-endorses-abia-pdp-gov-candidate-ikonne\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: APC chieftain endorses Abia PDP gov candidate, Ikonne\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, (APC) in Abia state, Prince Paul Ikonne, has declared support for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State, Prof. Uche Ikonne.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The APC chieftain who is the Executive Secretary of the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) pledged his support while receiving Ikonne at his residence in Aba and also described the PDP candidate as a perfect example of a true Abian who has always employed brilliant developmental ideas to transform any position entrusted to him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He lauded Ikonne&#8217;s credentials, stressing that Abia under his watch, would witness massive development.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">While commending Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu for his achievements in the area of human capital development, Small and Medium Enterprise, infrastructural development, the NALDA boss further pledged to do everything within his powers to support Ikpeazu&#8217;s succession plan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He called on all Abia people to mobilise support for the PDP governorship candidate.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Earlier in his speech, Prof. Ikonne told the NALDA boss that the visit was to formally inform him of his interest to govern Abia come 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PDP candidate also extolled Ikonne&#8217;s sterling qualities as well as his achievements at NALDA, the state and country at large.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In his remarks, the Deputy Director, Uche Ndi Abia Campaign Organisation, Chief Ibe Nwadioha, thanked Prince Ikonne for his receiving the team.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, (APC) in Abia state, Prince Paul Ikonne, has declared support for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the State,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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