S/AFRICAN WOMEN MARRIED TO NIGERIANS THREATEN PROTEST

South African women married to Nigerians, yesterday, threatened to stage
mass protest in Johannesburg to stop discrimination against them, their husbands and
children.
Mrs Lindelwa Uche, the chairperson of the United Nigerian Wives in South Africa, UNWISA,
made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria during the launch of the
association, Sunday, in Johannesburg.
Uche said that South African society did not take their marriage to Nigerians as serious
relationships.
She said: “Our society does not take our marriages serious, they see our marriages as relations
of convenience and perceive us as evil to the society.
“All of us are South Africans married to Nigerians living in South Africa, we decided to come
together to fight against stigmatisation, discrimination, and humiliation, against our families
by government departments and agency and the officials of the government, the community
and our-in-laws.”
The chairperson said an earlier protest march by the members of the association had not
generated any response from the Home affairs office.
“We protested against discrimination from home affairs officials in March this year, and since
after that protest we have not received any response from the government. We felt before we
embark on any further action we should come together and form an association registered by
law.
“After the official launch of our association, our next action will be more than just a protest
march to the city of Johannesburg home affairs office. It is going to be a protest where we will
strip on the street of Johannesburg, so that people and government will know that there is an
existing body and that we are not happy with the way our non South Africans husband and
children are being treated.
“We also plan to carry our protest to Nigeria, we know that some South Africans also have
businesses in Nigeria, if it is necessary we will take actions that will stop South Africa
businesses operating in Nigeria. Indeed we are ready to go that far.
“We have been quiet for so long but we cannot can’t take it anymore, for the sake of the future
of our children, we have to put an end to this discrimination.”
She said there was need for them to collectively tackle the issue of some Nigerians residing in
South Africa being unfairly separated from their families due to pending residence permit that
eventually lead to deportations.
“If we don’t stand up as daughter of the soil and fight discrimination against our marriages
who will, if we don’t stand up and fight for the rights of our husbands when they are being
violated and treated shabily by officials of the government and citizens alike who will.
“If we don’t stand up for our children when they are being called derogatory names like “Small
lee kwere-kwere” or turning their natives names upside down deliberately by our community in
the name of making them feel like aliens, outcast, and unwelcome, or even when their Nigerian
aunties and uncles call them bustards, then their future is in jeopardy.
“If we don’t stand up when our countrymen and women, officials and in-law address us as
paper wives, gold diggers, stupid and opportunist, who will do that for us, ” Uche queried.
She said the notion that all Nigerians are criminals must be corrected.
“We are in a country of law and order, if anyone is found guilty let the law take its course, we
are not saying Nigerians
are good or bad, even in the South Africa society, there are criminals and indeed there is no
country in the world that does not have criminals,’’ Uche said.
Ikechkwu Anyene, President of the Nigeria Union in South Africa (NUSA), said the association
is a good initiative by the women who are suffering discrimination and humiliation because
they are married to Nigerians.
“We at the NUSA have been working with them even before the association was registered as a
body, we were with them when they carried a protest match to the home affairs office in
Johannesburg,
“we will continue to support them to achieve their goal which is to put an end to
discrimination by the government officials and their brothers and sisters towards them for
being married to Nigerian.
“The initiative is also to unite Nigeria and South Africa and indeed the whole of Africa, to see
each other as brothers and sisters and to ensure that we stand by one another,” Anyene said.
He, however, advised the body to carry along all South Africans married to Nigerians
irrespective of their tribe and geo-political zone and the tribe of their husbands.

GENEVIEVE, OMOTOLA, MONALISA MAKES AFRICAN OSCAR NOMINATION LIST

The nominees for the third annual African ‘Oscars’ organised by Nollywood and African Film
Critics, USA Washington DC has been released with Omotola Jolade Ekeinde, Genevieve Nnaji,
Monilsa Chinda and Uche Jumbo Rodriguez among A-rated Nigerian actresses nominated in
various categories of the awards.
Organisers say the ceremony which holds on the 14th of September 2013 at Warner Theatre,
will air worldwide with over 500 Million viewers expected to tune in to the glitz and glamour of
NAFC Awards Night.
Here’s the full list of the nominees for various categories…
*NAFCA
DIASPORA CATEGORIES
Best film in Diaspora
1. Le Silence Pure
2. Page 36
3. One Night in Vegas
4. Boys Cry
5. Unguarded
Best Drama Diaspora Film
1. Turning Point
2. Page 36
3. Boys Cry
4. Unguarded
5. One Night in Vegas
Best Screenplay Diaspora Film
1. Turning Point
2. Page 36
3. One Night in Vegas
4. Boys Cry
5. Unguarded
Best Cinematography Diaspora Film
1. Turning Point
2. Page 36
3. One Night in Vegas
4. Black Money
5. Le Silence Pure
Best Actor in leading role Diaspora Film
1. Igoni Archibong-Turning Point
2. Pascal Atuma- Secret Past
3. Egbi Perez-Page 36
4. Montel Swaray-Temperamental
5. John Dumelo – One Night in Vegas
Best Actress in leading role Diaspora
1. Yvonne Nelson –One Night in Vegas
2. Jackie Appiah-Turning Point
3. Uche Jombo- Unguarded
4. Marie Solo Peters– Le Silence Pure
5. Fatima Koroma – Nurses from Hell
Best Actor in Supporting role Diaspora Film
1. Ernie Hudson- Turning Point
2. Jimmy Jean Louis-One Night in Vegas
3. Ash Da Vito-African Connection
4. Van Vicker – One Night in Vegas
5. Michael Blackson- One Night in Vegas
Best Actress in supporting role Diaspora Film
1. Merlisa Langellier -Page 36
2. KD Hubert-Turning Point
3. Sarodj Bertin–One Night in Vegas
4. Gloria Washington- Nurses From Hell
5. Chisom Oz Lee – Unguarded
Best Director in Diaspora Film
1. Mitchel A Jones–Boys Cry
2. John Uche-One Night In Vegas
3. Robert Peters– Le Silence Pure
4. Don Okolo-Page 36
5. Bethels Aguomoh-Ungurded
NOLLYWOOD & AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS
Favorite Actor
Benedict Johnson
·2. Joseph Benjamin
·3. Majid Michel
·4. Emmanuel Mensah
· 5. Chamberlyne Okoro
Favorite Actress
·1. Ify Hollywood
· 2. Omotola Ekehinde
· 3. Fatima Jabbe
· 4. Monalisa Chinda
· 5. Queen Amina
Favorite Director
·1. Kunle Afolayan
· 2. Prinze Whyee
· 3. Ibrahim Ceesay
· 4. Pascal Amanfo
· 5. Kathryn Fasegha
Favorite Screenwriter
·1. Emem Isong
· 2. Andrew Campbell
· 3. Pascal Amanfo
Best Actor in leading Role
1. Majid Michel – The Price
2. Ramsey Nouah-Weekend Getaway
3. Adjetey Anang – The Hunters
4. Jim Iyke-Blood or Wine
5. Anurin Nwunembom-Ninah’s Diary
Best Actress in leading role
1. Beverly Naya-Alan Poza
2. Jackie Appiah-The Hunters
3. Iretiola Doyle– Torn
4. Mbufung Seikeh-Ninah’s Diary
5. Genevieve Nnaji-Weekend Getaway
Best Actor in Supporting role
1. Adjetey Annang-Letters to My Mother
2. Eddie Watson-Letters to My Mother
3. John Ijie-The Hands of Fate
4. Kofi Adjorlolo-The Price
5. Uti Nwachkwu-Weekend Getaway
Best Actress in supporting role
1. Kalsume Sinare-The Price
2. Patience Ozokwor – American Mama
3. Ini Edo-Weekend Getaway
4. Beverly Naya-Weekend Getaway
5. Monalisa Chinda-Weekend Getaway
Best Child Actor in a Film
1. Oley Saidykhan -The Hands of Fate
2. Elijah Kondeh-Boys Cry
3. Boakai Kimbo-Boys Cry
4. Ceareh Hamilton–Boys Cry
5. Marisha Nayee-Angel & the Mailman
Best Director in a Film
1. Charles Novia-Alan Poza
2. Pascal Amanfo- Letters to My Mother
3. Tom Robson-Mrs. Somebody
4. Desmond Elliot –Weekend Getaway
5. Victor Viyuoh-Ninah’s Dowry
Favorite Male Artiste Diaspora
· 1. Koby Maxwell
· 2. Sky J
· 3. Dacapo
Favorite Female Artiste Diaspora
· 1. Katumbella
· 2. Twissa
· 3. Soleil Diva
·4. Uba Unwudiwe
Favorite Artiste of the Year
1. Yemi Sax
· 2. 2Face Idibia
· 3. P Square
Favorite Song of the Year
·1. Flavour
·2. 2 Face Idibia
Favorite Video of the Year
·1. Timaya
·2. P Square
·3. Flavour
GENERAL CATEGORIES
Best Film
1. Alan Poza
2. Ninah’s Dowry
3. Weekend Getaway
4. One Night in Vegas
5. Le Silence Pure
Best Indigenous Film
1. The Blessed Curse
2. The Hands of Fate
3. Le Silence Pure
4. Deceit of the gods
Best Drama
1. Alan Poza
2. The Hunters
3. Le Silence Pure
4. Weekend Getaway
5. Ninah’s Dowry
Best Comedy
1. Alan Poza
2. Mrs. Somebody
3. American Mama
4. Wife for Ozobia
5. Unguarded
Best Docu-Drama
1. A Wish-Brest Cancer
2. The Hand of Fate- HIV
3. Boys Cry-Bullying
4. Ninah’s Dowry-Dowry
5. Le Silence Pure
BestTV/Online Series
1. Wife for Ozobio
2. African Connection
3. Adams Apples
Best Short Film / Trailer
1. Fetus
2. Unspoken
3. Hungry For You Honey
4. Five
Best Cinematography
1. A Wish
2. Alan Poza
3. Ninah’s Dowry
4. Weekend Getaway
5. One Night in Vegas
Best Screenplay
1. Letters to My Mother
2. Boys Cry
3. Alan Poza
4. Ninah’s Dowry
5. One Night in Vegas
Best Editing
1. Weekend Getaway
2. Alan Poza
3. Ninah’s Dowry
4. One Night in Vegas
5. Boys Cry
Best Sound
1. Page 36
2. Ninah’s Dowry
3. Turning Point
4. One Night in Vegas
5. Boys Cry
Best Original Score
1. America the True Dream-The Fetus
2. Crazy World-Somewhere in Baltimore
3. Zahara Loliwe-Pink Poison
4. False Engagement-False Engagement
5. Pariwo-Mind of the Enemy
Best Visual Effects
1. The Blessed Curse
2. One Night in Vegas
3. The Hunters
4. Temperamental
5. The Fetus
Best Costume
1. The Price
2. Unguarded
3. Page 36
4. African Connection
5. Le Silence Pure
Best Makeup
1. The Blessed Curse
2. The Fetus
3. Temperamental
4. Ninah’s Dowry
5. The Price

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MADAM GOVERNOR?

I have watched with keen interest the manner in which Miss Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo, daughter of the former Governor of Oyo State, Omololu Olunloyo has been ravaging the Nigerian media scene like a wounded lion. She has in recent times dominated the social media platforms and other media platforms taking a swipe at anybody or group she believes are not conforming to her life models.

She constantly describes christians as "fools" and "dickheads" and muslims are never spared. Is she a pagan of some sort or this is just her strategy of driving traffic to her online pages where she makes thousands of dollars, at least according to her? Or does she hate God enough to always try to insult those who attempt to serve Him?

Speaking of sex, she has kept up a habit of using vulgar words, uncensored manners of talking about sex where she portrays herself as a kind of woman who would rather take sex toys over men! Is she so morally decadent or she is just exploiting the sexual malady of many Nigerians to get them to her page?

Speaking politically, she calls herself Madam Governor, sometimes claims she will contest something in future and come round later to rubbish such claims. She will someday support the PDP and another day condemn both the PDP and every other opposition party. Is she politically confused or is it just another media stunt?

A lot about the life of Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo is ambiguous making many ask the question, what exactly is wrong with Madam Governor? Whatever is wrong with her however, she is a media guru anyday!

THE BITTER TRUTH ABOUT FEMI FANI-KAYODE BY OBI NWAKANMA (THE VANGUARD)

I read with a lot of amusement the piece of clap-trap circulated through the Nigerian
blogosphere last week titled ‘The Bitter truth about the Igbo” authored by Mr. Femi Fani-
Kayode.
I thought for a minute: but they said the guy went to Cambridge! Then again, take a scallywag
to Cambridge, he merely becomes a Cambridge-trained scallywag. There were many things
Kings College Lagos and Cambridge University could have taught, and might have failed to
teach Mr. Fani-kayode.
One of such things is felicity with truth. He does write about “bitter truths” and about the
“Igbo” and his submissions were in fact more bitter than true about the Igbo. For one, Femi
Fani-Kayode who claims to be “half-Lagosian” has not quite explained what that “half” means
after the genomic mathematics that also locates and divides the Fani-Kayodes of Ife in another
instance into “part Fulani” in the general scheme of things in Nigeria. I will not dwell on Fani-
Kayode’s identity politics. I’m yet to understand it.
It will require one to be quite high on something to tease it all out, and so I leave that part to
Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode. But I suspect that in situating himself to be “half-Lagosian” he means
that part of his ancestry may be found among the “owners” of Lagos, that is, the indigenous
settlers of Lagos.
For purposes of context, let me summarize Femi Fani-Kayode’s argument rendered in two
parts, starting with the first titled “Lagos, the Igbo and the Servants of Truth”: to him the Igbo
have basically no claim on Lagos and have made hardly a contribution to its development.
According to Fani-Kayode“The Igbo had little to do with the development of Lagos between
1890 till today and that is a fact. Other than Ajegunle, Computer Town, Alaba and buying up a
few market stalls in Isale Eko where is their input? Meanwhile the Yoruba and Lagos were very
gracious to them and not only allowed them to return after the civil war to claim their
properties and jobs but we welcomed them with open arms and allowed them to flourish in our
land. This is something that they have never done for our people in the east.
Now some of them have the effontry (sic) to call our land and the land of our forefathers (I am
half Lagosian and was brought up in Lagos) ”no-man’s land” and others have the nerve to
assert that up to 50 per cent of the development in Lagos came as a consequence of the input
of the Igbo. This is utter rubbish.”
These are the very words of Femi, hot under his collars because Igbo Lagosians are staking
their own claims to a part of the Nigerian commonwealth to which they have made enormous
contributions both in material and in blood.
Fani-Kayode may deny it, but Lagos is nothing if not the result of an agglomeration of forces;
a diversity of people from across the world and across the modern nation gathering at the
epicenter and the margins of the metropolis in what Homi Bhabha calls “dissemination.”
But Mr. Fani-Kayode is still hung up on sterile nativism of the sort that makes it impossible
for him to think clearly or rationally; he chooses to levitate on the illusory baloney that
inspires him to declare Lagos to be the “patrimony of the Yoruba.” No. Lagos is the patrimony
of every Nigerian who steps in it.
Lagos belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma,
Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settles in it. That
compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the
old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new
commonwealth of Nigeria.
The Igbo did not beg to be Nigerians. First they fought for its freedom. When the Nigerian
kitchen became too hot, they chose to leave. But a war was levied on the Igbo that forced
them back to Nigeria. That war was fought to preserve “One Nigeria” even if the Igbo had had
enough of “one Nigeria.” That war ended in 1970. The Igbo returned, and their return to Lagos
and other parts of Nigeria was neither an act of charity nor kindness.
It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the
Federal government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th
century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good number in a place we now call
“Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.
Igbo have been in Lagos, in other words, long before the first Fani-Kayode knew the road to
Ilesha. So, when Femi Fani-Kayode writes that the Yoruba were “kind” to the Igbo because, in
his words, “we allowed them to return to Lagos” after the civil war, he is not being a servant of
truth. In any case, about kindness, he might wish to talk to the likes of Eze Okpoko N’Oba,
whose property in Lagos was appropriated to this day by a prominent Yoruba as “abandoned
property” after the war.
I do not wish to insult the intelligence and regard of the many honorable Yoruba people I
know who do not buy into Mr. Fani-Kayode’s views, and so I will keep this simple: nobody,
even of average intelligence, can deny the impact and contribution of the Igbo in the political,
cultural, and economic development of Lagos as a great Nigerian city; the greatest of them in
fact, in the modern era.
The arrival of Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States,
stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after him.
Zik literally resurrected the wizard of Kirsten hall from political death. Zik represented Lagos in
the western house. The NCNC was the power in Lagos, and not the Action Group. The Igbo
were prominent in the governance of Lagos in the Lagos City Hall.
The institutional development of Lagos – the railways, the ports and ship yards; the education
and research facilities; the Banking and Commodities Exchange, the development of towns like
Yaba, Surulere, Ebutta-Metta, Festac Town, Victoria Island, and now Increasing the Ajah-Lekki
axis, and of course, the ghettoes along the Orile-Badagry axis, have profound Igbo imprimatur.
The circulation of the image of Lagos is to date best reflected in the cosmopolitan Igbo
imagination of one of the greatest African writers of the 20th century, Cyprian Ekwensi, a
thorough Lagosian if there was any. Igbo have built industries in Lagos and have been drivers
of commerce and exchange.
Side by side with their Yoruba, Efik, Itshekiri, Urhobo, etc. neighbors, they have continued to
negotiate the complex evolution of this city. The development had not much to do with the
Western government; even then, Mr. Fani Kayode often forgets that the Igbo were part of the
Western Region when it extended, until 1963, to the bridgehead at Asaba. Lagos is not the
patrimony of the Yoruba.
If any should make such a vicarious claim, it might be the Oba of Benin, to whom Lagos paid
tributes up until its annexation and colonization in 1861. Fani Kayode should read more and be
driven less by sophomoric enthusiasm and braggadocio.

APC ACID TEST - NGIGE BATTLES OKONKWO FOR ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP TICKET

IN Anambra State, there is a rat race for the governorship ticket of the newly registered mega
opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The leading contenders for the party’s flag are Senator Annie Okonkwo, Senator Chris Ngige
and Mr. Godwin Ezemo.
Senator, Okonkwo, the party’s deputy national chairman (South) says he is in a pole position
to become APC’s standard bearer ahead of other anglers for the slot, giving his business
acumen, employment creation, care for humanity through philanthropy and experience.
However, Senator Ngige is currently the lawmaker representing Anambra Central in the Senate
says the position of Anambra chief helmsman is not for green horns just as another aspirant
on the banner of the APC, Mr. Godwin Ezemo, says Anambra citizenry need a capable hand like
him to salvage the state from hopelessness.

I’m tested and trusted – Ngige
Ngige, a medical doctor, governed the state between 2003 and 2006 on the platform of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) until the courts nullified his election on account of
irregularities and handed the seat to Mr. Peter Obi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance
(APGA). Obi has been ruling the state since 2006. His second term will expire next March.
Ngige, who later decamped to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on which platform he won
a senatorial seat is in the race to succeed Obi. But to do that he has to get a ticket, which he
hopes to accomplish through the APC, a party he co-founded. Until the ACN merged into APC
with the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and some
members of APGA, he was the defunct ACN’s sole South-East senator.
Declaring his ambition via a letter to the Senate President, which was read on the Senate floor,
late July, he said: “I have concluded my consultations, and now find it necessary to officially
inform this Senate that I will be an Aspirant, and hopefully a Candidate in the November 16,
2013 Governorship election in Anambra State. Please wish me luck and offer your prayers for
me, even if you are not of my party.
“I intend to use the vehicle of the Progressives – our newly merged political party – The All
Progressives Congress (APC)…It is to the benefit of all Nigerians that Anambra State is well
governed, has peace, progress and sustainable development. This task is, therefore, not for
unsteady or untested hands that would seek to learn on the job. Anambra State needs an
experienced, tried and tested hand. The people believe that the Almighty God will do it for
them through me.”

How I’ll transform Anambra —Okonkwo
A knight of the Order of St John International (KSJI), Senator Okonkwo, 58, was Ngige’s
immediate predecessor at the Senate. He represented Anambra Central in the Upper Chamber
on the plank of the PDP between 2007 and 2011. He aspired for the governorship seat in 2011
and later defected to the APGA. He was in the merger committee that hammered out modalities
for the APC merger, leading a host of APGA members to the nascent opposition party.
Senator Okonkwo said he would transform Anambra State, if elected. A numerous local and
international award winner and chief executive of numerous communication and
telecommunication companies, Okonkwo, in a statement on his gubernatorial quest, said,
“after a proper look at the aspirants vying for the position of the governor and as somebody
who has the people at heart, I believe I would do the job better.”
The aspirant, who has informed the party that he was going to contest the Anambra
governorship election, said he could forfeit anything to enable him salvage his people from
what they are currently facing in the state.
His words: “Our great party, the All Progressives Congress believes in internal democracy, I
don’t want to be imposed and I also know that nobody would be imposed. To that extent, I
believe I stand to win the party’s primary election and with that, the party will comfortably win
the governorship election. It is a first test for the party.
“APC is seriously preparing for the election and we are very confident that we are going to win
the election, to enable us deliver what we have for the people of Anambra State.
“Today, in Anambra, people are scared of traveling to the state because of the fear that they
might be kidnapped, but if we win the election it will stop automatically because we are going
to provide sufficient job for the masses.”
Essentially, Okonkwo said his mission statement is “to offer quality service inspired by
selfless and faithful commitment to the development of our nation in general and our people in
particular.”
The business czar is chairman, Zoom Mobile Ltd (winner, This Day Best Information
Communications Technology (ICT) Company 2008); Clemco Industries Ltd; Modern
Communications Ltd (MCL); Maclemms Marketing Communications Ltd; Clemco Plastic Limited;
Pentagon Oil Limited; and Sunflower Industries Ltd.
His numerous awards and honours include: Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Award for Excellence in
Enterprise by WAIM; National Productivity Order of Merit Award; Euro Market Brussels
leadership award in recognition of exemplary Leadership by Leadership Watch;
Award of Excellence by Advocacy for Democracy Dividend; International Business Leadership
award by News Agency of Nigeria; Eminent persons Hall of Fame Awards by Nigeria News
world Fame Achievers Award; and Reltel wireless, Best Telephone Company of the year for four
years by NITTA and the West African Direct Marketing Award (2006). With over 2,000 Nigerians
and expatriates under his employ, Okonkwo said: “I founded this manufacturing company that
produces high quality soaps and detergents which is competing very well in the West Africa
Sub-region markets. Its success is a testimony of my entrepreneurial competence.”

I’ve a big task to redeem Anambra’s hope— Ezemo
Also speaking, Ezemo said he would redeem what he termed the hopelessness of the people of
Anambra State, if elected.
Addressing guests at a reception organized by a socio-political group, Association of Anambra
Indigenes Revival Initiatives, AAIRI, in Lagos, Ezemo lamented that despite the natural and
human resources in the State, Anambrarians have become beggars and destitute in their own
fatherland.
He said: “I’m delighted to be among the capable hands that can govern Anambra State. But
despite our abundant natural and human resources, the people have pitiably become beggars
and destitute in their own country. Returning to the country, in the last six years, I have been
bothered by the level of poverty glaring my people in the face; that is why I have decided to
take this bold step to see how we can cause change in Anambra.
“I must tell you that I have lost my privacy because I want to save Anambra State from its
doldrums. However, I strongly hold the view that the forthcoming election is not a do-or-die
affair.
This is why I leave everything in the hands of God to decide. If God says yes that I’m the one
to lead Anambra State, then Anambrarians should start counting their blessings. But if it
doesn’t happen, I will take it in good fate, because it will be on record that when
Anambrarians called upon me to lead them, I answered their call.”
He decried what he referred to as the moral decadence of governance that had become a do-
or-die affair.
Asked his major programmes for the state, Ezemo, who described himself as a successful
farmer promised to invest massively in power, if elected governor. “As a successful farmer, I
will ensure that Anambra becomes the food basket of Nigeria. Agriculture will have to come
back in the state …When there’s stable power supply in Anambra; massive industrial revolution
will take place, even as the high graduate unemployment bedeviling the state will be a thing of
the past.
However, I still insist that government can’t do this alone. All hands must be on deck to
achieving this. One major thing my administration will do is to provide the thriving
environment for investors. Once this is done especially through the provision of stable power,
we need not go all the way out to look for investors, because they will come looking for us.