Groups endorse Sen Abe for senate

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(Nigeria) Ahead of Saturday’s general elections across the country, the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for Rivers South-East senatorial district, Senator Magnus Abe has taken his re-election campaign to more communities in the area.
This came as he got the endorsement of 28 groups consisting of chiefs, elders, women, youths and professional organisations bringing to 38 socio-political groups in the Rivers South-East backing his re-election to the Senate.
Abe who is currently the Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) visited communities in Khana, Eleme, Andoni, Oyigbo, Gokana, Tai and Opobo/Nkoro, where he was described as “a worthy representative of the people.”
Prominent among the groups were the Obolo consultative forum, OCR; Ogoni Generation Next Project, OGNP; Ogoni Democratic Movement, ODM; Rivers Progressives Alliance, RPA; Indigenes without borders; ‘O’ela Obor Eleme, OOE;  Opobo Democratic Movement, ODM; Oyigbo Democratic Forum, ODF; Ijaw Justice Forum, IJF, Tai Project Forum, TPF and the Ogoni Youth Development Initiatives, OYDI.
The organisations in separate solidarity message, said they were impressed by the numerous achievements of Senator Abe in his first tenure, concluding that the people will re-elect him to effect more developments in the senatorial district.
They listed Abe’s scholarship scheme for indigent students, skill acquisition programmes, electrification projects and payment of electrical bills for several communities in the district as some of his achievements.
The groups also identified provision of water in rural communities, empowerment of women in the district, health support scheme, provision of transformers, financial support to traders and students among others as footprints of his first tenure.
“We are proud to say that the people of Rivers South-East now have a Senator, Charismatic leader and voice, Abe is a man of peace, detribalized and a philanthropist whose acceptability cuts across party lines,” they stressed.
The groups noted with joy the role Abe played during the screening of Kenneth Kobani by the Senate for ministerial appointment, saying the action was a manifestation of the Senator’s love for not only his people but the Rivers South-East, emphasizing that through him the people now feel the impact of representation at the upper chambers of the National Assembly.
Describing the elections of March 28, 2015 as an opportunity of cementing the support for Abe, the organisations said “you will be overwhelmingly voted because you have done well; you don’t have opposition and Rivers South-East seat is not vacant.”
Responding, Senator Abe thanked them for acknowledging his efforts, assuring that more will be achieved if re-elected, enlisting the groups to vote massively for the APC in the general elections.
He urged them not to be cowed by plans of the opposition centered on harassing, intimidating and creating fear among the electorates emphasizing that the forthcoming elections will defined development in Nigeria.

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