The PDP chairmanship candidate for Awka South Local Govern-ment area of Anambra State, Chief Mike Akubude has hailed Pre-sident Olusegun Obasanjo's decision to seek a second mandate saying it will not only make for continuity in government but will ensure that policies and programmes are executed to the letter.

He also sued for the reconciliation of different interests at all levels of the party which, may have felt shortchanged in the course of the recent primaries which produced the party's candidates for the local government, state and national assemblies, gubernatorial and presidential before the April elections.

He hailed the on going civic registration exercise as good for planning and determination of the country's actual population adding that the possession of the National Identity card which equivalent in deve-loped democracies he said are the social security card, in the United States, he however counselled against double registration as according to him, he observed that people move from one registration centre to another for multi-registration, adding that double registration will be counter-productive, defeatist of the idea behind its conception and shall confer no political advantage on anybody or group.

While saying that no two people will get the same number and no one individual will get two different numbers in the highly computerised exercise, Chief Akubude who also predicted Obasanjo victory in the South East in April said his motivation for wanting to be chairman of Awka South was hinged on a desire to bring go-vernment closer to the grassroots.

In line with this desire, Akubude said he would open up the feeder roads connecting the agrarian communities in the local government to Awka the State capital and ensure that the 20 electoral wards in the area have atleast a borehole sunk for them.

Akubude also pledged to run an open and participatory government if elected, as well as embark on massive sanitation by employing women who will seep the streets in Awka and the markets as in the days of the defunct monthly sanitation exercise. Akubude said he would ins-titute a micro-credit scheme for the widows in the local government area as well as unemployed youths to enable them become gainfully empl-oyed and he useful to themselves and the society.