NDI ANAMBRA URGED TO REJECT DUPLICITOUS SOLUDO
A few days ago, I watched Soludo on Arise Television during the launch of Athena Center.The conversation was on innovations in electoral technology, Gains, Gaps and the road ahead. In the first place, I frowned at recruiting a man who has perfected the art of electoral fraud to such a discourse. We all are witnesses to his abominable handpicking of his lackeys and bootlickers and imposed them as Local Government Chairmen in an election that can pass for one of the most reprehensible slaps on democracy in Nigeria. The same man unashamedly almost emptied the State treasury in vote buying during a by-election for a Senate seat and House of Assembly seat in a very contemptible manner. Today, elections in Anambra State are now discussed and determined by the amount of money you have to buy votes.This Governor also perfidiously ordered all local government staff to submit photocopies of their voters card through the Local Government service commissioner. In the same vein, all the Principals and teachers in the secondary schools were ordered to do the same or face serious sanctions.
The opinion of a man who is a master of election heist should not be sought in such a conversation.
The other day, during the launch of a book titled “Audacity to Transform”, Soludo in his crooked manner claimed that all the communities in Ebonesie, hitherto, occupied by unknown gunmen are now recovered asking the people to return home. Some Orsumoghu youth were engaged to stage manage their newfound freedom and return. What a white lie! I challenge the Governor, if he is not deceitful, to visit Lilu, Mbosi, Orsumoghu, Azia, Isselke and Ubuluisiuzor without his platoons of security convoy. As the November 8 election draws near, I call on Anambra people to reject this duplicitous Governor who thrives in dishonesty and rhetoric and vote for an accomplished entrepreneur, a man of conscience and compassion – Rt. Hon. Prince Dr. Nicholas Ukachukwu as Governor, and Madam Projects – Senator Dr. Iyom Uche Ekwunife, as Deputy Governor.
IKEMEFUNA OBODEZE writes from Ihembosi