I have read about you, Your experience and capacity is not in doubt, I charge you to go out there and develop Abia, Abia is a very strategic and important state in Igbo land and I believe that with you, given your track record of quality performance that is based on empirical evidence as a public servant, competence and capacity, educational qualification and character you are eminently qualified to champion not only the development of Abia state but to lead regional development, you are better positioned in terms of experience, pedigree, character, transparency, and capacity to govern Abia and lead it through infrastructural and economic development, your type and that of the governor of my state Anambra, Prof. Soludo is what the south East needs at this time, I will support you with all that is required to win the election and become the governor of Abia state ”

Those were the words of the foremost Igbo leader Prince Arthur Eze, the Anambra-born billionaire and Oil magnate when the Abia State PDP Governorship Candidate Prof. Eleazar Uche Ikonne, paid him a visit in his Abuja mansion.