By Ovat Abeng
An All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA chairmanship aspirant for Orumba South Local Government Area, ahead of the August 29th 2026 Local Government Election in Anambra State, Dr Josiah Sunday Okoli, has promised to declared state of emergency in basic education in the council area, if elected.
Okoli stated this in an interview with Journalists shortly after scaling through the party’s screening process for the chairmanship position held at the APGA regional headquarters in Awka on Saturday, February 7.
He decried poor state of government and community primary schools in the council area.
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According to him, if elected as the new chairman of Orumba South, I will build computer laboratories across community primary schools in the area.
“It is important that I join hands together with our solution governor, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo to address the decline and rot in the education sector if we want to give our children, the best education can offer.”
The APGA aspirant explain that education was not a privilege but a fundamental right of the Nigerian child and, therefore, obligatory for all, particularly the government at all level to provide.
“If elected, I will make basic education a top priority of my administration.
“As I speak, by the year 2030, according to the National Policy on Education, public examinations in Nigeria will become computer-based and before then, every child in Nigeria from primary four-six ought to have gotten basic computer knowledge.
“If you tour around primary schools in Orumba South council area, you will find out that no primary school has computer laboratory to equip the pupils with modern technology, so my administration will declare state of emergency in that sector, so that my people would not be left behind.”
Okoli while describing the screening process as straightforward, transparent and friendly, appealed to the governor to ensure that those that would be selected are people who will sustained his vision of making Anambra a secure, clean, green, livable and prosperous state in Nigeria.
Other Chairmanship aspirants, Hon Okwunna Echezuna (Ekwusigo LGA), Chief Emeka Anibonam (Onitsha South) and Hon Hilary Okafor (Idemili South), in their speeches, urged delegates for the party s primary slated for February 14, 2026 to ensure that they voted in the right candidates for them to enjoy the dividends of democracy.
The Paradise News gathered that a total of 154 chairmanship aspirants and over 1000 Councillorship aspirants were screen respectively.
