Senator Magnus, the Social Democratic Party's (SDP) candidate for governor in Rivers State, claims that if elected in the election held the following year, his administration would construct a second industrial layout in the state after Trans-Amadi.
Yesterday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, Abe addressed his supporters during a one million-person march for his campaign rally.
The former senator who currently represents Rivers South-East in the National Assembly identified SDP as the largest political party in the state at the time while speaking at the Port Harcourt Polo Club, where the youths gathered after the march.
He noted that the industrial when build would be targeted to boost the economy and create job opportunities.
He said: “We have told you that since Trans-Amadi was built, no other industrial estate has been established in this state. We will establish another one.
“We have told you that given opportunities to our people to get jobs and employment is not something to be done by laws or by fiat. We will create an atmosphere through which Rivers people can make money.”
Furthermore, the former Commissioner for Information and Communication in the state reiterated his earlier assertion that political parties are mere vehicles to governance, stressing that it is the people that make up the party.
He said: “Finally, I told you before that a political party is nothing but a vehicle. It is the people that make the party. Rivers people, today, you have made the SDP, the biggest political party in Rivers State. You have that power.
All those other parties, because you were there, that was why they were big. Now that you are here, this one too is big. SDP is the biggest political party in Rivers State today.”