By Uzo Ugwunze
The Chairman of New Auto Spare Parts Market Nkpor, Chief Stephen Ofoleh has advised gubernatorial candidates in the Anambra State November 8 election to stop wasting their resources.
He said they should instead undertake projects in their various communities to better the lots of the people other than contesting against the incumbent Governor, Charles Soludo (Charlie Nwamgbafor).
Speaking at his Nkpor office, Idemili North LGA, the market leader popularly called “Award” by his admirers said that one of the hallmarks of Soludo-led administration included the Public Private Community Partnership (PPCP) initiative which, according to him, is bringing development to various communities.
He urged the candidates to embrace the initiative as an opportunity to immortalize their names instead of embarking on fruitless venture or what he called day dreaming to unseat the “Solution Governor” who he said has kept his promises to Ndi Anambra.
The market leader said Soludo is not contesting with anybody in the coming Anambra governorship election.
“I plead with those candidates to instead of spending their money for political campaigns use it for PPCP, even if it is 1 kilometer road in their community because there is no vacancy at Agu Awka.
” Charlie Nwamgbafor has kept to his words. If you remember when he came into office in 2022, after swearing in, he went to Okpoko, promising that he would make Okpoko a New heaven.
“People thought he was just boasting but Soludo made Okpoko his unofficial office. He started with clearing the heaps of refuse inside the sakamori and surrounding gutters, constructed several roads in Okpoko, built a General Hospital for the first time in Okpoko.
” Soludo is a silent achiever. He offered free education to all children from primary to secondary school.
“I am from Anambra North Senatorial zone. The five new General Hospitals Soludo built is sited at my zone. Soludo is not from Anambra North but he has good assessment to do things where they are much needed. The road he awarded from Tarzan junction to 3-3 will decongest Awka road, Onitsha.
“In the markets the general purpose levy is paid with ease because Soludo is using our tax to work for us.
“On One Youth Two Skills which include Igba Boi, the trader apprentices who were not settled by their masters because of misfortune, Soludo empowered about five of them in this market during the first phase with about 500,000 naira each.
“In the second phase about ten apprentices from this Nkpor New Parts Market are beneficiaries with entrepreneurship lectures closely monitored from Awka.
“Infact Prof Soludo who won both the SUN and Vanguard’ Newspapers Best Governor awards for Good Governance is a gift to Ndi Anambra. I congratulate him in advance,” he said.
