Former National Auditor of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and an aspirant for the party’s ticket in next year’s governorship election in Anambra, Sir Paul Chukwuma, has stated that Anambra has no laid-down agreement on the rotation of power among the senatorial zones in the state for the governorship seat.
Chukwuma, who spoke in his country home, Nneyi Umueri community, Anambra East LGA, yesterday during a media parley with journalists, said the zoning pattern said to be operating in the state at present is entirely the arrangement of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), which the party created as it has perpetuated its rule of the state in succession since 2006.
Chukwuma, who disclosed that he has never joined APGA and has always been an APC chieftain since joining politics, noted that his own party, the APC, has no such power-sharing formula in place in the state but is currently poised to take over power during the next governorship election.
He noted that those pushing the zoning narrative as the election gets underway in the state were only doing so to hoodwink sentimental politicians, stating that candidates from other zones have always contested elections in the state during the governorship elections, irrespective of where APGA may have decided to zone the governorship slot.
He bemoaned what he described as the terrible state of affairs in Anambra under Governor Chukwuma Soludo and said he possesses a clear vision of the issues in the Anambra polity and how to steer the state away from its present governance deficits.
He lamented that civil servants are presently not smiling in the state, while the security of lives and properties is no longer guaranteed. He said traders and the organised private sector were being overtaxed in an inhuman manner, while there is a dearth of human capital development in Anambra.
“I’ve presented myself for the service of the people with a clear-cut blueprint on how to turn around the state in a positive light. My administration will do everything, including the provision of security within the ambit of the law, shunning every element of nepotism and adopting a holistic approach to security issues in the state,” he stated.
