By Jude Michael
Stakeholders of Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State have backed the re-election bid of the Governor of the state, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo.
Anambra will on November 8 this year hold a governorship election, and the incumbent Governor, Prof. Soludo, will be on the ballot as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
Nnewi North is noted previously to be the stronghold of the late Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial Zone, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, who almost dominated the zone.
But the executive Chairman of the local government area, Hon Echezona Anazodo, during a press conference last weekend, said stakeholders of the area had resolved to support Governor Soludo overwhelmingly because of his infrastructural strides in the local government.
He said: ‘Our people have agreed that we will support Governor Soludo in the forthcoming election. He is doing well and we have agreed to overwhelmingly support him in the forthcoming election.
‘Governor Soludo has no competitor as far as Nnewi North is concerned. This is because, we as stakeholders, have met and agreed that he is doing very well. In Nnewi North here, we have never witnessed the level of infrastructure the Governor has put in here, including ongoing ones.
‘Throughout my lifetime, I have only seen dualized roads outside Nnewi, but today Soludo has brought dualized roads to Nnewi. What we owe the Governor now is to make sure that no vote is lost to any other political party,’ he said.
Anazodo highlighted his own achievements in the six months that he had been in office since his election. They included empowering over 200 youths, providing fertilizers and improved seedlings to over 500 farmers, and allocating free shops to many women.
He said, ‘Over 400 farmers have received fertilizers and improved crop seedlings like cassava stems, maize seedlings and others, to boost their agricultural produce and reduce poverty. We have constructed 300 kilometers of road, a bridge, rural roads, open and lockup shops for petty traders in our markets.’
