2025 Guber Election: Only APC Can Fully Develop Anambra, Says Paul Chukwuma
Reveals intention to contest
A former National Auditor of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Paul Chukwuma has revealed that he will contest the Anambra governorship election next year.
Chukwuma who is also the Pro-Chancellor of Olivia University, Burundi, said he is now convinced that the underdevelopment in Anambra was because of the inability of the state to connect to the centre by joining the APC.
In a press chat with journalists in his country home in Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area on Saturday, Chukwuma said only an APC governor can develop Anambra State, under an APC-led federal government.
He argued that there were advantages of having a governor from the APC in the current regime, as there are many decision-making gatherings that governors that are not of APC stock may not be aware of, including Anambra governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo who is of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
He said: “Go and look at the two states in the South East that are being governed by APC; Ebonyi and Imo, and compare them with other states that are governed by other political parties, and you will see the difference.
“In Ebonyi, the past and present governors have used the platform to attract the goodwill of the federal government, and if you go there, you will see the quality of their projects.
“Go to Imo, you will see massive projects there. As I speak to you now, Orashi River is being dredged, courtesy of the federal government. Hope Uzodinma has used the opportunity of his closeness to the federal government to attract projects. Right now, the Federal University of Technology (FUTO) is being turned into a full conventional university. They are building a teaching hospital there now.
“What Governor Hope Uzodinma is doing there, we have never seen it here. Those who are criticizing Hope are just doing so to get at him, not because he is not performing.
“Coming to Anambra, all the erosion sites we have everywhere here, we can not tackle it. We need federal government funds to be able to do so. That is why I’m saying that the problem is not with those who are governors today, but the party they come from.”