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2023: APGA governorship candidate pledges to transform Rivers to Dubai if elected

Ugo Beke, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate for Rivers in 2023, has pledged to make the state a global touri...

Precious John ELIJAH
Precious John ELIJAH November 22, 2022
Updated November 22, 2022 at 2:17 PM
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Ugo Beke, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate for Rivers in 2023, has pledged to make the state a global tourist destination like Dubai.

Mr Beke, a merchant banker and financial consultant, stated in a statement in Lagos that if elected, he intends to build a $250 billion revenue-generating Oil and Gas City.

"If I am elected as the next governor of the oil-rich state in March 2023, rivers can begin generating far more than what all 35 states and Abuja combined cannot muster."

"The Oil and Gas City, Africa's first of its kind, will be a hub for companies, professionals-skilled and semi-skilled, allied companies, and every player in the oil and gas industry."

“With the billion oil dollars that rule the industry, commercial activities at the highest level-matched with a very high purchasing power which workers are associated with in the industry, Rivers will become the global go-to- destination,” Mr Beke said.

He said he had what it takes to unlock the riches that would make the oil rich state generate internally, more than what it needed to bring practical prosperity to Rivers people.

“We can be making 250 billion dollars every year from the new oil & gas city i intend to build in Rivers, when I’m elected as governor,” he stressed.

Mr Beke said that whatever helped build Dubai to become the world’s iconic city for business and leisure, would drive him to plan the Rivers Oil & Gas city.

He said that such a city would rub shoulders with the famed Dubai.

“I will build a brand new city that will rival Dubai in Rivers,” the candidate said.

The banker and gas expert promised to tackle the increasing unemployment rate massively through the proposed city.

He said that he had done his homework on what it would take to turn the economy of Rivers around and effectively make the people prosper.


Mr Beke, who noted that he held the new city idea to his heart, expressed confidence in his capacity to secure the lives of every family and business in the state.


The candidate said if elected, he plans to deploy vigilante to every local government in the state, among other things to secure it for businesses to thrive.


(NAN)

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