By Ovat Abeng
The people of Anambra State, particularly those residing at the rural areas has explained why governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo of the All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, should be stressless reelected come November 8th, 2025 governorship election in the state.
They said the non-stop transformation projects currently ongoing across the 179 communities within two years and eight months in office is enough evident for every voters-card carrier residing in Anambra to champion for his reelection bid.
According to them, since the returned of democracy in 1999 in Nigeria, no governor in Anambra State has done what governor Soludo have done within a space of two years and eight months in office, particularly in road rehabilitation/construction across the 21 local government area of the State without borrowing a dim. So, we want him back to continue what he has started.
The people were expressing their separate satisfaction while speaking to Journalists that just concluded a three-day Soludo’s project monitoring tour across the three Senatorial Districts in the state. The tour was sponsored by the State Ministry of Works.
At the Anambra Central Senatorial District, Awka community leaders and chieftains of APGA, in the area, Comrade Ozo Ochijee Modilim and Ozo Samuel Nwafor, in their reactions, expressed satisfaction with the quality of rehabilitation/construction of work currently ongoing in Awka and it environ.
According to the community leaders, this is the first time since Awka was named the state capital of Anambra, we are witnessing this transformative projects.
“Since Anambra was created in 1999 and Awka was made the state capital, we have never seen what governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo is presently doing in Anambra. Soludo came into power when Awka doesn’t look like a state capital but as we speak now, Awka is wearing a Dubai/Taiwan faces with the ongoing construction of new Government House/Lodge that accommodates a total of 30 buildings, construction of Solution Innovation District, construction of Funcity Event Centre, construction of Ifite -Amenyi flyover, construction of Unizik junction-W junction – Isuoanocha-Achalla-Igbariam road, the construction of Amasea-Ebenebe-Awba-Ofemili road in Awka North Council Area of the State, to mention but few.
“The governor has done beyond the expection of Awka indigenes. We are going to do everything political possible to ensure that the governor is stressless reelected for a second term in office.
“We are urgently appealing to the governor to also channel his administrative energy to the issue of insecurity currently threatening the peace of the State capital. We need more security input that would help actualized the dream of making Awka a Dubai-Taiwan city in Nigeria, the chieftains stated.
Also reacting, Mr Ambrose Nweke and Mrs Antonia Okoye attested that the newly constructed Amasea-Ebenebe-Awba Ofemili road has improved their means of livelihood (farming) to a greater heights.
The equally vow to support the governor’s reelection bid.
At Anambra North Senatorial District, the Chief Pharmacist of Okpoko General Hospital Okpoko, Ogbaru council area, Mr Ikenna Nelson, a businessman, Mr Ebele Edward, a resident of Onitsha South Council Area, Comrade Paul Nwachalla and a female farmer from Anam community in Anambra West Council Area, Mrs Ngozi Chinwoba, says the new roads constructed in the Senatorial District, particularly at the rural areas has attracted non-indigenes from neighbouring states of Kogi and Delta to the local area.
They again promised to support the governor’s second term agenda.
At Anambra South Senatorial District, the traditional ruler of Awa community in Orumba North, local government area, Igwe Israel Okeke Ezue, President General of Ogboji community, Prince Ebudo Emechebe, the vice president general of Ekwulobia community, Elder Frank Timothy, in Aguata council area and Ozo Calem Ebo, Chibueze Okafor (Orumba North/South LGA), all in Anambra South, on their parts, commended the governor for embarking on the dualization of strategic roads in the zone, as well as the Ekwulobia Flyover project, which they noted would transform the entire District to be named among the smart cities in Anambra State.
They equally assure the governor of block votes come November 8th 2025.
A hotelier at Nnewi, in Nnewi North Council Area, Mr. Obiora Ihazunya, who also spoke on Soludo’s infrastructural policy, described him as the most outstanding and transparent governor Anambra have ever produced.
The contractor handling the ongoing construction of the State new Government House and the governor’s lodge, Engr Ikechukwu Nnahasi, on his update, said the new Government House will be completed in the next two weeks.
Nnahasi who is also the President of IykeJordan Group, commend the State Commissioner for Works, Engr Ifeanyi Okoma, for organizing the media tour.
The Works Commissioner, Engr Okoma, in his speech, noted that governor Soludo has awarded a total of 621.649 kilometers of road within a space of two years and eight months in office and out of the above mentioned figure, 316 kilometers are fully completed for used.
He further said that the government is building a water park and amusement park in Awka to provide recreational spaces for the public, as the state capital currently lacks such facilities.
“We are taking Anambra State to greater heights, where every Anambra citizen will be proud to live and do business. We are building Anambra State to reduce poverty in the coming years. By the end of this administration’s first tenure, the poverty level in the state will be lower, and our people abroad will begin to return home and engage in business,” he said.
Okoma also emphasized that the vision of the Soludo-led administration is to make Anambra State a destination, rather than a departure point, as has been the case in the past.
