The leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Worldwide, an apex youth leadership organisation in Igbo land, says it mobilized eligible voters to ensure that the 2021 Anambra Governorship Election took place as against the plans of fellows after who felt that the election should be boycotted.
The group also mobilised youths across the 21 Local Government Areas of the State to participate actively in the election and resist attempts by extraneous forces to either truncate, hijack or manipulate the election.
The Acting National Youth Leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing Worldwide, Mazi Chukwuka Okpalaezeukwu stated this in Awka during her 53rd NEC Press Conference following a project inspection tour in Anambra State as part of strategies towards holding political office holders accountable in all seven Igbo speaking States of Anambra, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Delta and Rivers.
He said this was why they continue to monitor the activities of Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo 30 months after the inauguration of this administration after his resounding victory in the election of 6th November, 2021.
They commended the administration’s passion for youth development, including the One Youth, Two Skills programme Phase 1&2 of the administration, which has empowered 5000 Anambra youths, both indigenes and non Indigenes resident in the state.
“We are also impressed by the Solution government’s diligent implementation of the free education programme to our children from Primary School to Junior Secondary school. His Excellency’s huge investments in the education sector are also commendable.
“Others include the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education programme, the massive employment of about 5000 teachers for Anambra public schools, the upgrading of public infrastructure, review of the Anambra School Curriculum to better reflect the realities and demands of the 21st century, the establishment of the Anambra State Education Advisory Council, the equipment of public libraries with basic books and the provision of laptop computers and wifi to schools in Anambra.”
In the health sector, Mazi Okpalaezeukwu confirmed that Governor Soludo has not relented in providing improved healthcare for teeming population.
“These include the establishment of the Drugs Quality Control Lab at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, COOUTH, Amaku, a Medical Oxygen Production Plant and the Endoscopy Unit at the General Hospital, Onitsha as well as the deployment of Hematology Analysers to the laboratory departments of General Hospitals in Agulu and Nnewi, modernisation and renovation works at different general hospitals in the State.
“Also, the employment of over 1000 health workers and his maternal health policy that makes childbirth free of charge and less stressful to our wives and mothers are among the reforms we noticed in the health sector.
“We support the clampdown on quack or substandard health facilities in the State, because our people deserve the best.”
On infrastructural development, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Worldwide said “we visited many project sites across the State, and we are impressed with the quality, speed, and vision of the many legacy projects of this administration. The Urban Regeneration program of the Governor going on across Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi and Ekwulobia is highly commendable.
“Professor Soludo is keen on not just providing good infrastructure, education, healthcare, security and economic stability for the people of Anambra, but also cares for their emotional and physical wellbeing, which the Solution Fun City seeks to achieve.”
Mazi Okpalaezeukwu further charged local government youth leaders in Anambra State to go back to their local government areas and ensure that Igbo youths support Governor Soludo’s administration to accomplish his state mission particularly the forthcoming local government election this Saturday.
He however emphasized that the five-day project tour is not a guided tour rather the group’s crucial responsibility to regularly monitor developmental programs across Igbo land in order to have firsthand information on how elected representatives deploy public resources at their disposal for the benefit or otherwise of Ala Igbo and Ndigbo. ###
