By Uzo Ugwunze
The Chairman of New Auto Spare parts Market Nkpor, Chief Stephen Ofoleh has advised gubernatorial contestants in the Anambra State election coming up in November 2025 to consider using their money to Undertake projects in their various communities instead of wasting their money to contest against the incumbent Governor Chukwuma Soludo (Charlie Nwamgbafor).
Speaking at his office at Nkpor, Idemili North LGA, the Market Leader popularly called Award by his admirers said that one of the hallmarks of Soludo led administration include the Public Private Community Partnership PPCP initiative which is bringing development to various communities urging aspirants to embrace it as opportunity to immortalize their name instead of embarking on the fruitless venture or day dreaming to unseat the Solution Governor who has kept his promises to Ndi Anambra.
According to Ofoleh, Soludo is not contesting with anybody in the coming Anambra Governorship election. I plead with these other aspirants, instead of spending your money for political campaigns use it for PPCP, even if it is 1 kilometer road in your community because there is no vacancy at Agu Awka”.
” Charlie Nwamgbafor kept to his words. If you remember when he came into office in 2022. After swearing in, he went to Okpoko saying 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 5 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 (IGR) 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 5 of them in this market during the first phase with about 500,000 naira each. In the second phase about 10 apprentices from this Nkpor New parts Market are beneficiaries with Entrepreneurship lectures closely monitored from Awka.
“Infact Prof Chukwuma 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.