GOV Orji Kalu of Abia has announced that tuition-free university education would commence in the state-owned university in June next year.
Kalu, who made the disclosure in Umuahia, while addressing the Ubakala Consultative Forum, said a committee had been set up to work out the modalities for the scheme.
He explained that beneficiaries would be residents and indigenes studying in Abia State University, Uturu, and that nobody, irrespective of tribe and state, would be discriminated against in the scheme.
The governor reiterated his administration is commitment to develop the state and urged the forum, made of youths, to make peace and avoid destroying people and property.
Kalu, who also assured the forum that he would liberate the Ibo
people, said: I do not think about 2003,
but enjoined the
people not to allow moneybags to buy their votes.
The only thing you owe me is to vote and follow your votes to where
it will be counted,
he said, and restated his support for an Igbo
president.
He said the Igbo were not in a hurry, adding that the right candidate would be made known before the end of August.
Earlier, the president of the forum, Chief Charles Ekwueme, pledged the support and commitment of Ubakala youths to the second term bid of the governor.
Ekwueme, however, appealed to Kalu to extend the democratic dividend to Ubakala by checking the gully erosion in the area, and ensuring adequate water supply and reducing the rate of unemployment in the area.
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