ABIA STATE GUBERNATORIAL: WE MUST WORK HARD TO INCREASE OUR GDP IN ORDER TO ESCAPE POVERTY - OGAH
Dr. Uche Ogah, the All Progressives Congress's Abia Governorship candidate for the 2023 elections, has outlined plans to lift the Abia people out of abject poverty if elected governor of the state.
He maintained that the state must strive to increase its Gross National Income per capita, increase its Gross Domestic Product per capita, and drastically reduce trade imbalances with other Southeast Asian economies.
In a statement issued on Monday, Ogah, the immediate past Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, emphasized that Abia must aggressively pursue her regional integration and cooperation agenda to begin the process of improving people's lives and transforming the state from a rural agrarian disposition.
"As we're already blessed with enterprising people in the seventeen LGAS of the state and a huge commercial centre in Aba, it is imperative that we would now go ahead to develop other adjoining areas to serve as hubs in predetermined economic activities not only for the benefit of Abia State but the entire South East region of Nigeria and beyond".
"If Abia can take the lead in instigating an economic outlook for the South East region of the country, we would derive a lot of benefits ranging from incremental production capacity, economic diversification and growth, job creation and above all, poverty reduction which would have a ripple effect on other states of the South East," He proposed.
He explained that the goal of this regional integration and cooperation agenda is to initiate a wide range of forms of collaboration within the region, including symbiotic policies and regulatory frameworks that will result in joint institutions.
He stated that such collaborations will result in the establishment of highly developed transportation modes within the zone, such as rail transport and alternative highways to reduce travel times between regional production, service, or raw material hubs, among other projects that will boost economic growth.
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