Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze says he remains optimistic that the candidate of the APC for the 2023 governorship poll in Rivers State, Pastor Tonye Cole will use the credit of his decades of industry experience to demonstrate competence in public service when he resumes office as Governor in 2023.
Speaking on the backdrop of Cole’s emergence as the Business man of the year in a keen contest amongst other top Nigerian trade and commerce experts with demonstrable results in the business world, put together by IgbereTV, Chief Eze said fate has once more presented before Rivers people the opportunity to make a choice between meritocracy and mediocrity and unless they close their eyes against fanciful rhetorics, bias and financial inducements and deploy the power of conscience, the state may continue to slide deeper into the pool of retrogression in all respects as is the case in the present where the state and her wealth has been annexed to the Governor’s estate.
