I’m joining Anambra gov race to tackle insecurity – Ex-NIWA boss
George Moghalu
The immediate past Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Inland Waterways Authority, George Moghalu, has declared his ambition to run for the 2025 governorship election in Anambra State under the platform of the Labour Party.
Moghalu said on Saturday he is contesting the position to address insecurity, unemployment and other socio-economic challenges currently facing the state under the current governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo.
He claimed that Soludo has failed the people, hence the need to vote him out in next year’s governorship election.
He stated this while briefing journalists at his home in Nnewi on Saturday.
According to him, the media parley was in reaction to insinuations making the rounds that he would be contesting the senatorial election to fill the vacancy in Anambra South Senatorial District following the demise of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, but he insisted that he had no such ambition.
He said, “I will be contesting for the Anambra State governorship seat next year and not the Senate. I recently resigned from the All Progressives Congress, and on October 1, I joined the Labour Party.
“I am contesting to become governor so as to address the insecurity, unemployment and other socio-economic challenges currently facing the state under the current governor, Chukwuma Soludo administration. The current governor has failed the people, hence the need to vote him out in next year’s governorship election.
“Before I did so, I consulted my wife and children, my followers and friends, and I was convinced that Labour Party is the party that aligns with my person and the best-suited platform to realise my ambition.
“We need to redeem Anambra fast because Soludo has failed the people. There is dearth of infrastructure in the state, security has collapsed.
“We will not tolerate him further. What he could not do in four years, he will never be able to do in eight years. You don’t need eight years to develop Anambra.”
While acknowledging that there is a zoning arrangement in the state and that Anambra South, where he and Soludo hail from, is favoured for the contest, he insisted that if he wins, he would serve just one term in order to finish Anambra South’s turn before Anambra Central takes over.
