By Ovat Abeng
Ahead of the 2025 Anambra governorship election, the Labour Party candidate, Dr. George Moghalu, and his running mate, Mrs. Ifeoma Okaro, have appointed Hon. Afam Ogene as the party’s Director of Media and Publicity. This strategic appointment comes as part of a broader team of seasoned technocrats, politicians, professionals, and grassroots mobilizers who will spearhead the party’s campaign efforts leading up to the November 8, 2025 election.
Rep Ogene, member of the House of Representatives and chairman of the Committee on Renewable Energy, is a seasoned journalist, editor and member, Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE).
The lawmaker, representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, stated in Awka on Tuesday that the Labour Party campaigns will focus on issues, “in the earnest hope that our co-contenders will abide by the same code of behavior.”
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Announcing the appointments on Monday in Awka, the Director General of the campaign organisation, Arch. Okey Chukwuogo, described the newly constituted council as a “broad-based team with the competence and commitment to deliver a people-centered, issue-driven campaign that reflects the hopes and aspirations of ndi Anambra.”
Referencing the ongoing conversation about candidates that pledged to serve only one term in office – which Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra had dismissed derisively – Rep. Ogene noted that the candidates do so out of deference to the widely accepted governorship arrangement in Anambra State.
He stated that this was, “Unlike Soludo, who was a serial governorship aspirant, including against an incumbent, until he was elected governor in 2021.”
The LP campaign spokesperson emphasized that a second term in office is not an entitlement, but rather earned through the people’s vote, following a critical appraisal of a first term’s performance.
“So, instead of haranguing opponents through sophistry, Soludo and his Party should be busy telling ndi Anambra what their scorecard reads, to warrant a second term in office.
“And just in case they have forgotten what the November 8, 2025 Anambra governorship election is all about, a quick reminder would suffice,” Ogene said.
Ogene: “The next election will be a referendum on such key issues as, security of lives and property; attraction of investments, foreign and indigenous; emotional intelligence in governance; and equity in government appointments and spread of infrastructure. And I can tell you that Prof. Soludo, who gleefully promised to turn Anambra into Africa Dubai and Taiwan, has failed woefully in all fronts.
“On security, after sleep-walking for three years, the Governor Soludo administration woke up one morning to announce the creation of Udogachi security apparatus. Devoid of any form of formal training, the hoopla over it’s creation lasted barely two months, before the state relapsed into a killing field, with banditry, kidnapping and assassination taking full rein. The thugs he hired to fight insecurity have brazenly become terrors to the very people they were supposed to protect, unleashing unimaginable cruelty with their ‘Aka odo’, weapon of impunity, pain and blood.
“Under his watch, no fewer than two State Assembly members (including Hon. Justice Azuka and another former member, Hon. Okechukwu Okoge, member that represented Aguata 11 Constituency in Anambra state Assembly, who was abducted in 2022, along with his personal aide just as he was entering his house in his Isuofia village in Aguata local government area.They were killed. Okoye’s severed head was later found somewhere at Nnobi where it was dumped.
“The latest incident was the son of the State Woman Leader of Governor Soludo’s party. In fact, the grim crime statistics of Anambra is so horrendous, that no day passes without one incident of kidnapping, banditry or killing in the State.
“On investment, of course, since security is ancillary to business growth, the Dr. George Muoghalu Organization hereby urges Governor Soludo to release a list of investments that he has attracted to the state over the last three years.
“Concerning emotional intelligence, the condescending manner of our Governor’s public utterances can only be equated with the crude deployment of ndi Aka odo to Anambra streets and parks,” the LP lawmaker said.
Also included in the campaign team are eminent professionals such as Barrister CJ Okoli Akirika, who will lead the Administration Directorate, while Prof. Oby Orogbu takes charge as Deputy Director in the Contact and Mobilisation unit.
Others include Hon. Uchenna Okafor (Wiper) as Director of Parks and Markets; Prof. Patrick Nky Obi as Director of Support Groups and Persons with Disabilities; Barr. Jude Umennajiego and Dr. Obinna Ngonadi in Operations; and CP Mike Okoli (Rtd) as Director of Security.
“This council brings together some of Anambra’s best minds in law, media, strategy, grassroots mobilisation and governance,” Chukwuogo said. “We are assembling not just a campaign team, but a team of transformation.”
