Former Minister of Aviation and frontline contender in the November 18, 2017 Anambra State governorship election, Chief Osita Chidoka, has described the United Progressives Party (UPP) as the only genuine platform for the much desired social, economic and political redirection in the state.
He said this in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Thursday, while addressing the National Convention of the party.
Chidoka said Nigeria today required to be run on equity, justice and fairness; “where no man is oppressed; where every part or section is free to decide how it wants to interact with the rest; and where all citizens or groups are free to express their views and aspirations without fear.”
He said the time had come for a peaceful national rethink and dialogue to bring the country out of the fault lines to a level of new national consensus, adding that the UPP offered the genuine political platform to achieve this goal at all levels.
He said the party was poised to assume that role with its imminent victory at the November 18, 2017 governorship election in Anambra State.
Also speaking at the event, the National Chairman of the UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie, said the party stood for equity, freedom and justice. He said the party supported the clamour for restructuring, as well as legitimate political demand by any section of the country within the wider national structure, noting that the party was the only genuine platform for all groups within Nigeria to vent themselves without rancour.