Soludo Surpassed His Expectations, Done Better Than His Predecessors- Obumneme Eze
By polycarp Ifeanyi, Onitsha
A legal Practitioner in Onitsha, Anambra State, Obumneme Eze Esq has scored Professor Chukwuma Soludo high in the area of developmental strides more than his predecessors in the state.
Fielding questions from newsmen in his Onitsha office, the human rights lawyer disclosed that Professor Soludo has surpassed his expectations and has done wonderfully well within the space of 24-months better than other successive administrations in Anambra State.
He noted that he has gone round Anambra State and found out that the performances of Soludo especially in the area of quality roads construction can not be contradicted even by the worst opposition.
” Governor Soludo has done so much. I’m being realistic. I have gone round the street. I have the statistics, induces are there. Go to Okpoko, a lot of roads have been done and General Hospital. Just within 2 years he has transformed all the places. Come to Onitsha, look at Port Harcourt Road, Zik’s Avenue, Niger street, Miss Elems connecting Port Harcourt Road. So, second tenure of Soludo is a work over”
Speaking further, Eze contended that the leadership crises rocking the All Progressive Grand Alliance ( APGA) party is not a threat to its existence, saying that the crises had been there since 2004, even as he explained that the Party needs only political solution to arrest its challenges.
According to him, Edozie Njoku being the current National Chairman would need the support of the Governor in order to succeed in running the Party while the Governor himself will as well needs to get Njoku’s support for him to get ticket of the Party for the 2025 election.
Reacting on the issue of Supreme Court recent judgement, Eze hinted that the judgement by supreme Court on the autonomy to 774 local Governments in the country would bring sanity to the system as well as usher in grass root development.
He, however, stated that Governors abused powers confered on the state by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to have joint accounts with local Government in each of the respective State, saying that Governors hijacked the money for themselves and compelled the local Government to give them a kind authorisation which he said was a clear violation of the 1999 Constitution.
” Therefore, with the ruling by the South court, the Federal Government is now at liberty to pay the money direct to local government coffers” Said Eze.
