Onitsha of my Dream -Prof. Soludo

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Soludo will make Anambra Africa’s Dubai – Anaekwe

Politics Nov 21, 2009

Agunwa Anakwe, a lawyer and Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Third Republic , rarely speaks to the media. He is by his own admission taciturn and almost shy, preferring to work in the field and behind the scenes. Often described as ruthlessly efficient and always strategic in planning, he was the Director General of the Chris Ngige Campaign Organisation in 2007.


Anaekwe has now cast his lot with Prof Chukwuma Soludo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in the February 6 2008 election in Anambra State . Anaekwe, now the DG of the Soludo Campaign Organisation, spoke to newsmen recently.



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What is unique about the manifesto?


Almost everything, but let me single out the vision to turn Anambra into the Dubai or Taiwan of Africa. The African Dubai—Taiwan (ADT) concept is totally new in Nigerian politics. ADT is about visioning—and this is the element most lacking in Nigerian and African politics. Our leaders don’t dream dreams any more. They think governance in the 21st century should be about paying salaries of civil and public servants and building elementary infrastructure such as roads and providing distribution transformers to communities.
No one thinks of how to provide jobs to hundreds of thousands people who yearly graduate from the universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and secondary schools. No one thinks of how to build industries, both small and big, which will employ these new graduates of chemical engineering, chemistry, industrial engineering, etc.
Neither Ngige nor Gov Peter Obi knows how to stimulate the economy, to say nothing about our state becoming the Dubai or Taiwan of Africa. Can they tell us how many jobs they have created or big companies they have attracted to the state as governors? Gov Obi has a worse record. He has not employed even teachers in government –owned schools since he became the governor over almost four years ago.
He denies workers in the employ of the state government their legitimate entitlements. That’s why doctors in the state went on strike for one year until recently.
Critics could say that Soludo’s ADT may be good in theory but not in practice. What’s your reaction?
Only someone who is mentally lazy could argue like that. Every major achievement in the world began as a dream. Who would have believed that Singapore would today be one of the greatest economies when it was in 1965 kicked out of the Malaysian Federation for contributing nothing to the wealth of the Federation? The development miracle began with the founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who made a first class in the university, just like Soludo.
Did any person in the world give Dubai – a swath of desert- any chance of becoming an economic oasis when the programme for its transformation was launched? As we are talking, the authorities in the United Arab Emirates are out with the dream to make Abu Dhabi a more resounding economic success than neighbouring Dubai .


How did Soludo come about the idea of making Anambra the Dubai or Taiwan of Africa ?


Frankly, I don’t know. But I do know that in 2006 he delivered a keynote address at the annual meeting of the League of Anambra Professionals in Awka where he did an arresting analysis of the development situation in the state, and asked both the people and government to immediately set in motion the machinery for Anambra’s transformation within a short period. I am reliably told that Gov Obi was in the audience when the address was given and he clapped enthusiastically. Every word uttered in the address is very relevant to this day.

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[ozoodoo]

Common thieves!!!!!!!!

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My people, Great Sons and Daughters of Great Nation help make it become a REALITY...join the Campaign Trail here!

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Campaign Trail


One place for all this distance
We've got so displaced
The life that you've always wanted
A thousand miles away

Like no man's like an architect
Like moving in one place
We can live forever
We could fade away

Borrowed time and missing faces
No home in a million places
I don't want a change of pace
I can't do anything else

Borrowed time and missing faces
No home in a million places
I don't want a change of pace
I can't do anything else

Now I have your attention
It's just a matter of time
Till you question what I'm saying
Make me justify

Every word in every line
That does not seem to fit
But the meaning's not so important
As long as you mean it

Borrowed time and missing faces
No home in a million places
I don't want a change of pace
I can't do anything else

The life that I wanted
Is frozen in motion
The life that I wanted
Is frozen in motion

Borrowed time and missing faces
No home in a million places
I don't want a change of pace
I can't do anything else

Borrowed time and missing faces
No home in a million places
I don't want a change of pace
I can't do anything else
Till We Have Built Jerusalem

I can't do anything else
I can't do anything else
I can't do anything else

Written by: James Frost; Iwan Griffiths; Robin Hawkins; Alexander

[chiagozie]

Shove this where it rightfully belongs. up someone's ...

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Anambra 2010: Soludo, unveiled
From AMOS DUNIA, Abuja
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Prof Soludo •Photo: Sun News Publishing

SOLUDO

Strengths: Big party platform; tall academic standing; high national and international rating; oratorical prowess; sound track record as CBN governor, chief economic adviser to the president and financial expert.
Weaknesses: Running on a crises-infested party platform; current financial crisis, consolidation and post consolidation controversies as negative weapons against him; stiff opposition from controversial yet powerful godfathers and forces within PDP.

AGENDA THRUSTS:

Security of lives and property; organizing ‘Anambra 2020 Summit’ to harness the contributions of all Anambra people, other knowledgeable Nigerians and international partners towards the ‘Anambra Solution 2020’; transformation of Anambra into a huge model city state as African Dubai-Taiwan; instituting ohazulume (mass participation) leadership; effective representation of women in all government appointments and activities; setting up of a standing high level commission on community peace and harmony made up of the clergy, traditional rulers, elderstatesmen, civil society, distinguished women, judges and government officials for speedy resolution of intra and inter community crises; urban renewal programme; new Awka capital city and GRA; focus on Onitsha mega city, Nnewi and Ekwulobia in addition to Awka; human and youth development; education – upgrading of public schools, employing public-private partnership, world class private schools; health – building and equipping at least two international hospitals, equipping and upgrading existing ones; youth employment and empowerment; erosion control; agriculture and poverty reduction; public sector reforms; welfare of the workers.

THE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN....IT HAS STARTED...ARE YOU PART OT IT..

[Ranter]

Who else feels the red cap should nt go with that dress?

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Who else feels the red cap should nt go with that dress?

Man dey wear dress? Abi na there he hide the Fortis micro shares?

Aluta!

G

[Auspicious]

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I actually believe that Chukwuma Soludo, sans 'baggages' and all, would be a good thing for Anambra. That state has had enough trouble from touts like Emmanuel Uba already. It's time for a brain-thrust in the right direction, and I *think* Soludo may be very capable of doing something good out there. I don't care what others say about his troubles, as long as it is no more the likes of Uba who run the show out there.

Auspicious.

[Dapxin]

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I actually believe that Chukwuma Soludo, sans 'baggages' and all, would be a good thing for Anambra. That state has had enough trouble from touts like Emmanuel Uba already. It's time for a brain-thrust in the right direction, and I *think* Soludo may be very capable of doing something good out there. I don't care what others say about his troubles, as long as it is no more the likes of Uba who run the show out there.

Auspicious.

ie. you prefer the crook with a PhD ?

most times, a crook without pretensions is a better deal - saves you the pain of not knowing....

[Auspicious]

ie. you prefer the crook with a PhD ?

most times, a crook without pretensions is a better deal - saves you the pain of not knowing....

Hi, Dapxin!

Right now, I really don't know who isn't a crook - or is - in Nigeria. But there are one or two things that I know: for all of Charles Chukwuma Soludo's reported transgressions in his last official post, the Nigerian banking system saw a little bit of brains at work, sans the reported shady runs.

Given that reality, perhaps, Soludo might just be able to replicate a little bit of the good that he did at CBN in his home state of Anambra, God willing.

Auspicious.

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Prepare for Local Council elections, Soludo tells Anambra PDP members
By Bonaventure Melah


A democratically constituted and functional Local Government system that is accountable to the people is a vital instrument towards the development and prosperity of people at the grassroots level.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the February 6, 2010 election in Anambra State Professor Chukwuma Soludo stated this on Wednesday in Isuofia his country home while addressing party members from Aguata Local Government Area. He charged PDP members who have interest in contesting elections for positions at the Local Government levels to begin to prepare for it, promising that the conduct of a free and fair local government council election would be one of the first set of programmes his administration will undertake if he wins the 2010 election.

Prof. Soludo told the gathering that he offered himself to serve Anambra State as governor in spite of the advice of his friends and other concerned stakeholders because of his desire to correct the many ill bedeviling the state and declared his readiness to make whatever sacrifice necessary to rescue the state from total destruction.

“Many people have asked me why I ventured into politics of Anambra State instead of going abroad with my family to have rest and enjoy myself after my service as the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and I tell them that I cannot go and enjoy myself when my home state is on fire. That I cannot go and enjoy myself when our youths are roaming the streets without jobs and when infrastructures have totally collapsed.

“How can I go and enjoy myself when lives and property of my people are no longer safe because of violence, armed robbery and kidnap. Go to Onitsha today, people are leaving the market for Asaba and other towns because life is not safe there any longer. That is why I said that I will come so that we change the situation and bring good governance, prosperity and security of lives and property of our people; and I am determined to pursue that goal believing that with God the suffering of our people will come to an end beginning from March 2010 when we will move onto the Government House Awka,” Soludo said.

While commending the visionary leadership of governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State who he said has provided over 25,000 jobs to his people through the Agricultural revolution he introduced in the State, the PDP candidate pledged to transform Anambra State to the Dubai – Taiwan of Africa through massive investment in the provision of infrastructure, building of industries, provision of jobs and ensuring the protection of security of lives and property of the people.

On his chances of winning the election, Soludo said that not less than 80 percent of Anambra people belong to the PDP and that none of the candidates contesting the election with can compare with him in any ramification, adding that the leaders Anambra people deserve in the face of the challenges ahead are people of distinction and not those that would provide half- baked service and charged party members to unite and carry the campaigns to the doorstep of every Anambrarian.

“There is work to be done. The bickering that divided us is over now. What we have today is one PDP, one candidate, one umbrella under one God. We must unite to win this election because we have the best programme to rescue Anambra. There will be election, votes would be counted and we will win,” Soludo concluded.

Many PDP stalwarts including the Director General of the Soludo Campaign organization Hon. Agunwa Aniekwe attended the meeting which was conveyed for the PDP candidate to interact with all PDP members who have from the inception of the party served as Local Government Council Chairmen, past chairmen of the party at Local Government level, past councilors among others.
Bonaventure Melah is an Abuja- based journalist and social commentator. He can be reached on 08036062975, E-mail: bonphimelah2001@yahoo.com

[Dapxin]

Auspicious,

I knew your point. Apart from riding on that **hope***, there's hardly little one can do.

We 've heen struck for so long....

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Dapxin, my good bruder, a change is coming...a change u must believe in...are u part of it....?