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We’ll reward your good deeds with our votes, teachers tell Ugwuanyi

By Chijioke Iremeka
08 October 2022   |   4:58 am
Jubilant principals and teachers of secondary schools in Enugu State, under the Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB), yesterday, converged at the Government House, Enugu to appreciate Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi ...

Governor of Enugu State, Ugwuanyi

Jubilant principals and teachers of secondary schools in Enugu State, under the Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB), yesterday, converged at the Government House, Enugu to appreciate Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for the attention his administration has paid to their wellbeing and the education sector.

They said Ugwuanyi’s administration has been regular in the payment of salaries and has carried out various sterling reforms in the education sector that have repositioned the sector and earned Enugu State laurels within and outside the country.

The teachers said they are delighted at the governor’s achievements in the education sector and other sectors across the state notwithstanding the state’s lean resources and the challenges bedeviling the country since he assumed office.

They passed a vote of confidence in Ugwuanyi and assured him of their support and votes at the poll to represent Enugu North Senatorial District in the National Assembly in 2023 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Led by the new Chairman of PPSMB, Dr. (Mrs.) Favour Ugwuanyi, the principals and teachers told the governor that they are behind the choice of Barr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah as the governorship candidate of the PDP in the 2023 general election, assuring him that they would also vote for Mbah, his running mate, Barr. Ifeanyi Ossai and all other PDP candidates in the state.

Appreciating Ugwuanyi for reconstituting the PPSMB and bringing in intellectuals with proven track record, the principals and teachers disclosed that their positive impact is already being witnessed in the state’s education sector.     

On his part, the Chairman, Enugu State Association of Nigerian Conference of Principals of Schools (ANCOPS), Mr. Robert Okolie maintained that the recent ranking of the state as first among public secondary schools in Nigeria that presented candidates for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examination in 2021 was as a result of Ugwuanyi’s administration investment in the education sector.

The ANCOPS Chairman thanked Ugwuanyi for his commitment to quality education and the teachers’ wellbeing, saying: “We wish you good luck. We are assuring you that all the candidates of the PDP should go and prepare for their electoral victory celebrations.”
Describing Ugwuanyi’s administration as an ‘education-friendly administration,’ the PPSMB Head of Department (HOD), Central Registry, Mrs. Joy Agbara, said the governor’s good work in the education sector is enormous, including conversion of teachers, payment of inherited promotion arrears, recruitment of 1,000 teachers, renovation and construction of classroom blocks, provision of modern learning tools, such as computers, laboratory equipment as well as instructional materials, among others.

Speaking further, she said: “Your Excellency, we have never had it this good. That is part of the secret of what you are seeing today. If you look at our schools, there was a time that if you enter our schools, the environment was nothing to write home about but now, the environment is friendly for teaching and learning. You have given it to Enugu State.

“Our students came out with good grades in JAMB and WAEC. Our students are ICT-compliant, among other achievements. We said we must come because there is nothing as urgent as showing gratitude. An ungrateful person is worse than a traitor’s sword. His Excellency, we say Thank you.”     

Continuing, the Coordinator, Teachers for Good Governance (TGG), Mrs. Ify Dunu; the Chief Supervising Principal (CSP), Mr. Christopher Ekwunife and Mrs. Chinedu Eze from PPSMB Headquarters, all applauded Ugwuanyi administration’s transformational policies in the education sector and commitment to the wellbeing of the teachers, reassuring the governor of their support for his senatorial bid and that of Barr. Mbah and other PDP candidates.

Endorsing their stance, the Chairman of PPSMB, Dr. (Mrs.) Ugwuanyi, informed Ugwuanyi that the joy on the faces of the teachers was borne out of their conviction that the governor has done well for them.

She used the opportunity to express gratitude to the governor for sending her to National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Jos, for training and appointing her the Chairman of PPSMB as well as giving her, people of integrity and intellectual prowess to work with as members of the Board.

The State Chairman of the PDP, Hon. Augustine Nnamani, the PDP candidate for Nsukka West Constituency, Hon. Amos Amadi Agbo, former Commissioner for Labour and Productivity, Hon. Ogbo Asogwa, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor on Religious Matters, Bishop Chinedu Nwoye, Permanent Secretary/Secretary of PPSMB, Remigius Chibuzo Eze, and a Board Member, Ugochukwu John Eneze, were among the dignitaries that witnessed the event.

In a related development, women from the Orba, Ugwuanyi’s community in Udenu LGA, under the auspices of ‘Orba Women Circle of Friends’ also visited the governor to express their solidarity and support for his senatorial bid in 2023.

Led by their President, Mrs. Ngozi Eze, the Orba women, who appeared in their colourful attires, conveyed their deepest and heartfelt gratitude to God for deeming it worthy for their illustrious son to occupy the exalted office as the Governor of Enugu State.
The delighted women lauded Ugwuanyi for the numerous giant development projects his administration has executed in their community, Udenu LGA, Enugu North Senatorial District and the state in general that “will outlive generations unborn.”     

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