The management of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has urged the elites and well-to-do people in society to increase a hand of fellowship to underprivileged residents within the society.
The chairman of Rivers APC Caretaker Committee, Chief Tony Okocha, made the decision when he led different members of the committee on a go to to the ‘Residence for the Aged,’ alongside Harbour Street, Port Harcourt and the ‘New Technology Imaginative and prescient Orphanage,’ in Elelenwo in Obio/Akpor Native Authorities Space of the state on Thursday, the place he introduced items gadgets and money to the centres.
Okocha mentioned the donations had been protecting in tune with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He acknowledged, “We’re within the administration of Tinubu, who the world is aware of as a really compassionate individual. And naturally that has cascaded all the way down to us right here as leaders of the APC within the state.
“By the particular grace of God, we had been in a position to knock in a few of these gadgets and we share to our members and we made deliberate makes an attempt to additionally share with indigent houses.
“We have to present that there might be a authorities that has compassionate for the much less privileged, if we had the chance to be in management and answerable for the reigns of governance within the state, we might do higher.”
Okocha, who can also be the Rivers State consultant on the administration board of the Niger Delta Improvement Fee, inspired well-meaning people, and company organizations to at all times give serving to hand to these in want.
He averred, “Residents of the state who’re well-to-do or rich ought to lengthen their goodwill. We want loads of it. You’ll be able to see that they’ll barely stroll (these within the aged house).
“So how do they fend for themselves? They’ll solely fend for themselves through the goodwill that individuals lengthen to them. So it’s my craving that anyone who has ought to lengthen to others. That’s what life is all about.”
Objects donated to the 2 centres embrace luggage of rice, cartons of noodles, toiletries and unspecified amount of money.