Ugochukwu Ede, a 35-year-old medical practitioner and information and technology professional residing in California, has won the Young Progressives Party’s Enugu State governorship primary ahead of the 2023 general election.
After polling a total of 17 votes, Ede was declared the winner of the governorship primary held at the Exclusive Serene Hotel in New Haven on Saturday.
While announcing the results of the poll, Dr Frank Nweke, Chairman of the YPP Enugu State Governorship Primary Election Committee, revealed that 17 delegates, one from each of the state’s 17 local government areas, took part.
He said, “The party adopted option A4 in the conduct of the primary. We have one aspirant who contested for the governorship ticket of our party. The delegates queued behind the aspirant and after counting, he polled a total of 17 votes to emerge the winner of the primary.
“By the power conferred on me I, Dr Frank Nweke, Chairman of YPP Enugu State governorship primary election held today, Saturday June 4, 2022, hereby declare Mr Ugochukwu Bethel Ede as the governorship candidate of YPP, having scored the highest votes in primary election and hereby returned elected.”
The YPP gubernatorial candidate thanked the delegates for entrusting him with the party’s gubernatorial mandate and promised not to disappoint them in his acceptance speech.
Edeh stated that his administration would focus on the education sector in order to restore young people’s confidence, which he confessed is at an all-time low.
He ascribed the trend to a scarcity of job possibilities for graduates who sought to further their study, stressing that education would be a top concern for his administration.
The US-trained medical practitioner intimated that turning Enugu state into a technological state would be a mirage if the state’s young population is illiterate, adding that he wants to make Enugu a technology centre in the South East zone.
Making the state a technology center, he claims, will allow citizens to come up with new ideas, allowing the state to compete with other technology hubs across the world.
On the subject of industrialisation, Edeh indicated that his government would endeavor to industrialize the state by ensuring that an industry is developed in each of the 17 LGAs, with the goal of producing jobs for the state’s teeming unemployed.
