Anambra 2021: What the people want is a good governor, not zoning – Obiorah Okonkwo vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
Obiora Okonkwo, a Russian-trained Political Scientist and a High Chief from Ogidi in Idemili North local government area is one of the major political players in Anambra State.Earlier this year, Okonkwo endowed a research chair at the UNIZIK Business School, Awka, to carry out a study into Onitsha Main Market as an entrepreneurial hub of Igbo land.
Zoning is a problem for me. I am aware that there are agitations for zoning, but I believe that Anambra, as it is, those who love the state should pray to God to give us the best in 2021. We are in total paralysis in Anambra State and it is only someone chosen by God that will be able to bring us out of that situation. My party, PDP, has its stand or zoning and I am not doing anything against the party’s position for coming out.
I want to say that what 80% of people in Anambra South want is to have the best no matter where he or she comes from. So I don’t know where this zoning thing is coming from. The same year Ngige from Anambra Central contested, Mbadinuju from South also contested on the platform of AD. So, if there was zoning, the two ought not to have contested at the same time. It was Peter Obi as APGA governor that chose to get APGA candidate from the North in 2013 and he had made it clear that he did not sit down with Anambra people to zone the position to the North at that time. Obi was in a position to zone because he had the power as the incumbent governor.
Again, the only zone that respected the call for equity was Anambra Central. This is because when Ngige ran in 2017, he lost even in his local government because the electorate obeyed the zoning. Anambra people are not parochial in anything they are doing. So if an Anambra person is a mayor in Canada and a House of Representatives member in Ireland, there is no justification to limit his aspiration in his country.
Anybody who wants to govern Anambra come 2021 must not look at the end of his four years. He must be someone who can lay the foundation for the next 30 years of the state. We need to go back to the basics and that is why I endowed a chair at Unizik on the entrepreneurship of Anambra people who serve their masters and are then settled. We are losing our values and that is why we need reorientation.
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