Sen. Stella Oduah has promised to join forces with the relevant security agencies in her second tenure to fight the rising wave of drug abuse among the nation’s youths.
Oduah, representing Anambra North Senatorial District, made the promise in a “Thank you” statement she issued in Onitsha on Thursday.
Oduah was re-elected for a second tenure in Saturday’s National Assembly election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Read her remarks below
“In the coming days, I will be setting up a think tank to look into the area of drug dependency and abuse currently ravaging our land.
“I must say that this is the issue that is very dear to my heart, we must save the young generation.
Senator Stella Oduah
“I used the opportunity of my numerous campaigns to stop and witness firsthand, the cancer that is killing our youth’s but all that will be addressed soon,” she said.
Oduah said she moved and supported many bills and motions in the Senate in a bid to turn the senatorial district into “an oasis of peace and development.”
She further stated that she often got excited and accomplished each time her interventions helped to ameliorate the plight of the downtrodden in society.
Oduah commended the people of the constituency for giving her their mandate and promised to do more for them in her second tenure.
She extended a hand of fellowship to her opponents in the quest to transform the area and ensure the wellbeing of the people.
Oduah polled 113,989 votes to defeat Mr Emmanuel Chinedu of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, who polled 59,937 votes, Mr Nelson Onubogu of the All Progressives Congress, who scored 11,995 votes, and 18 other candidates in the recently concluded elections.
