Ugwuanyi seeks support for Inner Wheel Club

GOVERNOR  Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has enjoined members of the public to support the Inner Wheel Club in its effort towards assisting women, children and other vulnerable members of the society.

Ugwuanyi  spoke  when  he  played host to members of the club led by its international president, Lady Oluyemisi Alatise, during their courtesy visit to inform him of the club’s annual conference and rally in Enugu.

The governor explained that the club was one of the largest women’s organisations  in  the world that continued to play a very crucial role  in  the improvement of lives of women, children and the disadvantaged in the society through the “many life changing projects and programmes carried out across the world”.

He also congratulated Lady Alatise on her emergence as  the  first African  and  Nigerian international president of the club, adding, “I receive  you  today  not  just  as  the  governor  of Enugu  State but  as a Rotarian  and  former  President  of  the Rotary  Club  of Emene. Therefore, I am  very  much  at  home  with the  objectives  of the  Inner Wheel  Club  as well as  the commendable  service  it  has been  rendering  to  humanity.”

The governor later  assured  the  club  of  the  full  cooperation of his administration and urged  other well meaning individuals and organisations  to help the  club attain its noble goals.

Earlier, the  president  of  the  Organisation, Lady Alatise, told the governor that they  were at the Government House to inform him of their annual national conference in Enugu, as well as present her book highlighting the path to women’s progress.