Man Who Rejected Offer Of Special Assistant Position From Enugu Governor, Ugwuanyi, Gets 1.08Million Gift
Man Who Rejected Offer Of Special Assistant Position From Enugu Governor, Ugwuanyi, Gets 1.08Million Gift
The Chairman, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Enugu State Chapter, Mr Ike Ugwu has gifted N1.08 million to one Mr. Ikenna Collins Ezeagbo.
Ezeagbo, who hails from Opi in the Nsukka Local Government Area of the state was reported to have rejected Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s offer to be his Special Assistant (SA)……..Continue Reading
Ezeagbo rejected the appointment and reportedly attributed the rejection to the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government in the state to fulfil its promise to his community, Opi, since 2018.
Ugwu, who handed a N1. 08 million cheque to Ezeagbo on Saturday, said, “Today at the NAPPS Annual Teachers Conference, I redeemed the promise that I made to Mr. Ezeagbo Collins.
“I had promised to empower him with the sum of one million, eighty thousand naira only (1,080,000), being the cumulation of his supposed salary as S.A to the Enugu State Governor for the remaining six months of this present tenure.
“This is to encourage young people to get involved, stand for the truth, equity, and justice.
“It is time for the youths to lead the way.”
Ugwu, a contender for the Labour Party’s senatorial candidacy for Enugu North district in the 2023 general elections, said empowerment should be about the establishment and well-being of citizens, and not to put them in slavery.
Ezeagbo while responding to the gesture, explained why he declined the governor’s appointment.
He said he rejected the governor’s offer to protest against the denial of infrastructural facilities to his community.
He said Ugwuanyi’s administration abandoned the construction of Opi Agu Road despite several promises.
He said, “Even when our elders, youths and others visited the governor at Government House to remind him of his promise to the community in 2021, he still did not do anything to date.
