The senator representing Anambra North in the National Assembly, Stella Oduah, has expressed gratitude to her constituents for reelecting her in the just concluded National Assembly election.
Oduah who chairs the Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration, stated this in a statement on Thursday.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker pointed out that she would use her second term to tackle the menace of drug abuse ravaging the area.
In a statement personally signed by her, she said: “In the coming days, I would be setting up a think tank to look into the areas of drug dependency, abuse currently ravaging our land; and I must say that this is the issue that is very dear to my heart. We must save the young generation.
“I use the opportunity of my numerous campaign to stop and witness first hand the cancer that is damaging our youths and how we can curb all that.
“My dear people, my brothers and my sisters, your endorsement will spur me to do more, and I call on all well meaning members of this Anambra senatorial district to please join hands with me as we set out to give Anambara North another wonderful four years of purposeful representation”.
The former Aviation Minister called on those who lost at the election to join hands with her to improve the living standard of people in the senatorial district through quality representation.
According to her, her re-election for second tenure was proof of God’s love for her and her people.
“It is also pertinent to note that despite my strive in infrastructural development that has ensured that we have a well-constructed and rehabilitated countless roads, schools, police stations, boreholes, street lights etcetera, the one thing that really gets me excited is ameliorating the plight of the downtrodden in our midst.
“It is in this regard that I spent four years pursuing a vigorous programme that has seen an immeasurable number of widows being engaged in training and different programmes that has cumulated in giving them seed money to start businesses which they have been successful at,” she added.
Oduah had defeated 20 other senatorial candidates to emerge winner of the Anambra North Senatorial District election held on February 23.
Declaring the result on Monday in Onitsha, the Returning Officer, Hugh Maduka, said Oduah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 113,989 votes, while Emmanuel Chinedu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) garnered 59,937.
Others include: Nelson Onubogu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) 11,995 votes; Chinedu Ekwealor of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) 1,024 votes among others.
