WE will all go to the polls on November 16 this year to vote another governor, who will take over from the incumbent Governor Peter Obi. This is a decision that will decide our future in the state. So let us think deeply and vote wisely.
The candidates in this election come from the three senatorial zones in the state. There are candidates from zones which have produced a governor before, produced again and still want to produce again. However, there is a zone which had never produced a governor before and the zone is hoping and believing that in the spirit of one family, you will support and vote for it’s candidate to become the first governor from the zone, just as the zone had been supporting and voting for candidates from other zones to become governors in the past.
Anambra State is made up of three families namely; Anambra South, Anambra Central and Anambra North. Everything in the state including the office of the governor belongs to all of them and should be equitably enjoyed by all of them. But this has not been so because since the creation of the state in 1992, successive governors of the state have all come from Anambra South and Anambra Central respectively. Anambra State has had six civilian governors and Anambra South has produced four governors: Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju, Dr. Andy Uba and Mrs. Virgy Etiaba. Anambra Central has produced two governors in the persons of Dr. Chris Ngige and Mr. Peter Obi.
Anambra North, which is the largest of the three families, has not had the opportunity to produce even one governor. This is not fair and this is not how to treat a family member, who has given more for the sustenance, development and enhancement of our common home.
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Anambra North, for better understanding, is the Senatorial District of the first president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and foremost politician, Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Owelle of Onisha and the great Zik of Africa. The senatorial zone of this great sage deserves better treatment in the Anambra project than we have given it.
Anambra North is home to River Niger and Omambala River from which the state derived its name. These two rivers and their tributaries have turned the Senatorial District into the food basket of the state. The Senatorial District accounts for over 90 percent of the agricultural and aquatic production of the state.
Anambra State is basking in the euphoria of joining the league of oil producing states because nature deposited oil in Anambra North. This same Anambra North has one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the country.
The three Senatorial Districts of Anambra are sharing, harvesting and enjoying the natural blessings of Anambra North in the spirit of brotherhood.
It is only equitable in the same spirit of brotherhood, to ask Anambra South and Anambra Central Senatorial Districts to allow Anambra North to share in the joy of producing the next governor of the state, which they have monopolized since the creation of the state.
Anambra North has the largest market in West Africa and this market, outside federal revenue allocation, is the highest revenue earner for the state. How then are we treating this zone as outcast in the Anambra family?
This is injustice, the kind Ndigbo are complaining of in Nigeria. We believe that Ndigbo deserve to produce the next president after President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure because Nigeria stands on a tripod of Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo and Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba have continued to exchange the baton of Nigeria’s presidency between them as if Ndigbo does not exit.
* Uchem Obi Esq, director of Media and Publicity, Willie Obiano Equity Campaign Group, wrote. from Awka
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