ANAMBRA 2025 : EX-OHANAEZE PRESIDENT SCORES SOLUDO 80%, ENDORSES HIS 2ND TENURE 

By Juliana Nwachukwu :

The immediate past President of the Igbo apex ruling body, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Anambra State, Chief Obi Chukwuemekalum Udodeme, Monday scored Governor Chukwuma Soludo 80 per cent performance and endorsed his second tenure bid.

He stressed the need for the electorate to vote for the rightful candidate come November 8 Gubernatorial Election in the state to avoid past mistakes where they sold their conscience just for money that worth nothing.

He reiterated, “You cannot change a winning team, the present governor is not doing bad at all, he is performing.  If I am asked to score him, I would score him 80 per cent or above because no man is perfect.  He has done so well on roads, though if I want to be sincere to myself I would tell you he has developed all sectors  of the economy simultaneously”.

Chief Udodeme made the remark during the meeting of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) executive and stakeholders of Fegge Ward 1 at Agulu town hall, Fegge Onitsha, while the registration of new APGA members were also going on. 

He further stressed that the governor has done well in all the ministries, and sectors, saying, “You don’t change such a man”, rather what we would do is to encourage him to do more and I sincerely believe if he comes back, he is going to do more, I’m  sure of that”, he posited.

Chief Udodeme who is an APGA member from Fegge 1 told all aspirants, “Ambition is not a crime, you have the right to contest, you have right to your ambition, and as the former president of Ohaneze, I advise let them to play according to the rules, no thuggery, no rigging.

“You don’t have the right to stop others from contesting, all I know is that this government has done excellently well, I would vote him again and again and again,” he vowed.

While applauding his ward executive and the local government political appointees in their ward, Udodeme declared that in all the 17 wards of Onitsha South Local Government,”This is the very first time political appointees came together, mobilized funds and made announcement in the whole of the wards, calling people to come and register for APGA and a lot of people came out.

“I thank the Special Adviser to the council Mayor, Comrade Dunu Chiadikobi, they are working tirelessly to make sure APGA has a great registered number of members in Fegge ward 1. He provided something for people to eat and drink, that is politics for you, a game of number,” he further said.

He admonished that there should be sincerity of purpose especially from the leaders, saying that they should be honest, humble and ready to tell people the truth at all times and charged the leaders to leave the wards executives to take certain decisions, maintain those decisions.

In his words, the Mayor, Anambra State Association of Town Union (ASATU), Youth Wing, Onitsha South Council, comrade Dunu Chiadikobi said, “We mobilized the three council appointees in our ward, including our ward Councillor and we realized #200,000 to encourage and mobilize people to come out en masse and register for APGA.”

Dunu who was the host at the meeting said that the expectations of these meeting and the fund raised by them, the political appointees is for the new registered members’ passport capturing and the likes, and for them also to come out en- masse on the election day and cast their votes”.

He thanked Governor Soludo for all the developmental strides in the area, especially the general hospital, roads, pipe borne water and others. He applauded the Mayor of the area, Hon.Chief Emeka Orji (Dikediebube) for his tireless effort in restoring the lost glory of Onitsha South, saying that as the area has benefitted from the governor, so as Fegge Ward I has benefitted from the government of Dikediebube.

He emphasized that Onitsha South Local Government area has benefitted a lot from this government and noting that Fegge Ward 1 has two supervisors, former chairman of Onitsha South, former president Ohaneze Ndigbo and others.

The Ward Chairman, Hon Chibueze Obinwune tasked to ensure that the ward has the highest number of registered voters, saying that his 23 executives have charged themselves to provide 20 persons each, adding that if they could mobilize 20 persons each, they would be 400 plus.

According to him, Our challenges were passport but our ward political appointees have helped us, they paid for the passport capturing of these new registering members and I believe with this, we would achieve our aims.

The Ward Woman Leader, Mrs Amaka Duru Anyaoha sai that she is mobilizing women through door to door campaign, in churches, markets and even advised them to come with their grown up children to register for APGA.

The ward Youth Leader, Mr Ifeanyichukwu Okeke said that he works round the clock to ensure that youths are not left out in this APGA ongoing registration because as youth, “We have to elect our leader if not, others would do”.

*Juliana is of the Ministry of Information, Anambra State*