BY ABUCHI IFESINACHI, AWKA
APGA Winner of Anambra East/ West federal constituency, Chief Peter Obiano Madubueze, Okaka Anam, has said he owed his March 28 national assembly election victory in the State to the executive governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano.
Chief Madubueze who stated this in Awka during a media chat said he would forever remain grateful to Obiano for believing in his undoubted capabilities noting that his victory at the poll was not in any way a mean feat.
He also thanked the people of Anambra East/West for their support assuring them that he would do everything humanly possible to repay them even as he vowed never to betray the trust and confidence reposed in him.
When asked what kind of legislative influence he intend to bring to bare for his people, he said, 'I know about Federal Character Commission I know how to get my people jobs.
I will ensure that all the ecology funds are used for their purpose.Apart, from that we need roads in our areas because we are the food basket of the state. Most of the crops produced are sold at cheap prices simply because there are no roads to convey them to urban areas. I now that I have clinched the national assembly ticket, I will affect the lives of the farmers in my area,' he pledged.
I will ensure that all the ecology funds are used for their purpose.Apart, from that we need roads in our areas because we are the food basket of the state. Most of the crops produced are sold at cheap prices simply because there are no roads to convey them to urban areas. I now that I have clinched the national assembly ticket, I will affect the lives of the farmers in my area,' he pledged.
When reminded that legislators don’t build roads, he said, 'You see, I don’t believe that legislators don’t build roads.
In the budget legislators make, they lobby to add the needs of his or her constituents and money is being added because you are there. By so doing that, they attract a lot of projects to their people and my target is that every year the needs of my people are included in the budget estimates. It is by doing so that we say that legislators build roads and other key infrastructure, but lawmakers do not touch this money physically.
In the past somebody influenced the federal roads that stretches from Umueze Anam, my village to Nzam through Inoma and then to kogi, but when they left, that road stopped there, that road is a big road that demands a lot of money beyond what the state can do, so federal money must be appropriated there every year and if you do not know how to go about it, it will remain abandoned. So one of my missions is to ensure that, that road is appropriated for every year, because if that road is put in good shape, people can get to Abuja from there in two to three hours,' he maintained.
In the budget legislators make, they lobby to add the needs of his or her constituents and money is being added because you are there. By so doing that, they attract a lot of projects to their people and my target is that every year the needs of my people are included in the budget estimates. It is by doing so that we say that legislators build roads and other key infrastructure, but lawmakers do not touch this money physically.
In the past somebody influenced the federal roads that stretches from Umueze Anam, my village to Nzam through Inoma and then to kogi, but when they left, that road stopped there, that road is a big road that demands a lot of money beyond what the state can do, so federal money must be appropriated there every year and if you do not know how to go about it, it will remain abandoned. So one of my missions is to ensure that, that road is appropriated for every year, because if that road is put in good shape, people can get to Abuja from there in two to three hours,' he maintained.