WILFRED EYA FROM THE SUN
Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has bared his mind on the just concluded general election in Abia and Nigeria at large.
In this interview, he gives his opinions on what he thinks should be the way forward to prevent ugly occurrences in the future. Among others, he highlighted the achievements of his administration and where he believed he didn’t do so well.
How do you feel after the election?
I’m okay. I feel very well and I thank God that I’ve run this race to this point and expecting the next phase of my life.
Losing your Senatorial ambition and your party losing the governorship, was that a big disappointment?
The two are not the same. For me, I’m a man of very modest expectations and public office is a call to serve. If I offer myself to serve and the people say no or wait, it’s not a personal loss. It gives me the opportunity to open other doors and do other things.
I had a manifesto, I had an agenda which I thought was going to bring about some paradigm shift in the way things were done especially having been here for a couple of years and seen what I felt were gaps that needed to be filled and I offered myself. I congratulate myself for the courage to offer myself.
I congratulate myself also for the courage to run that race and I also congratulate myself for the courage to be able to say, oh, well, maybe the people think otherwise or something happened because what comes to play in an election is not entirely about what the people want.
There are artefacts in every experiment. So whatever thing it is, I feel sufficiently bought to put myself together and move on. I won my last elections at the biggest league in the state. So, this one for me is not a do-or-die thing or question of life and death. Ultimately, history and posterity…
