Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has pledged his administration’s readiness to continue to promote Nigeria’s unity.
He stated this yesterday when non-natives from the North, South West, South-South and other states of the South East geopolitical zones resident in Anambra converged on the International Conference Centre (ICC), Awka, the state capital, to endorse his re-election bid in the November 8, 2025, governorship poll.
Addressing the mammoth crowd, Soludo said, “I’m deeply humbled by the outpouring of sentiments expressed by various tribes. I appreciate your support for us to go for a second term. I do not take this for granted.
“I believe in one Nigeria. As an undergraduate, I was a coordinator of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in the 1983 election. The motto of NPN was ‘One Nation, One Destiny’.
“God didn’t make a mistake in putting us together as people of the same country with the potential to be the leaders of the black race. So, wherever we find ourselves, we should accept each other and work the talk,” he said.
According to him, “I’ve been in public service at the national level and I am now in Anambra State and we live out the same principles.
I don’t care where you come from. Some of my best friends are Muslims from the North. The best two drivers I ever had were from the North. Two of them are from Kogi and it didn’t matter to me where they came from.
“Some of my finest friends were not of the same religion as I. They are not Igbo, not Christians. That is why in Anambra, we have one state, one agenda. We don’t have boundaries. Religion, location and local government are not our concern. Once you live in Anambra, you are of Anambra. I thank all of you for being good citizens of Nigeria,” Soludo said.
Earlier in his speech, the spokesperson of the organisers of the governor’s second term bid endorsement held on the aegis “Patriots”, Chief Damian Enekwechi, eulogised Soludo’s administration, saying it had performed well.
He said all non-natives resident in the state, cutting across all states in the country’s six geopolitical zones, decided to endorse the governor’s second-term bid so that the state would attain the Dubai-Silicon Valley status of the administration’s dream.
