The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance within the forthcoming Anambra State governorship ballot scheduled for November 6, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has mentioned the state was too subtle for a college certificates holder to aspire to control.
Soludo, who spoke on the Dr Alex Ekwueme Sq. in Awka, the state capital, on Friday, throughout the inauguration of the APGA Nationwide Marketing campaign Council for Anambra ballot, mentioned the state had outgrown being ruled with such lowly academic qualification.
The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee had on Thursday revealed a listing of candidates for the Anambra Governorship election whereby a lot of the candidates offered secondary college certificates as their highest {qualifications}.
Soludo mentioned, “APGA has a star-studded crew for this election and it’s the social gathering with one of the best brains.
“Take a look at different political events and their candidates, and you can see out that they’ve simply first college leaving certificates and others the West African Senior College Certificates as their highest qualification.
“Is it first college leaving certificates and WASSCE they’ll use to control Anambra? Anambra has outgrown such and you can not use these certificates to control Anambra. Take a look at my operating mate, Dr Onyekachi Ibezim, a medical physician. You possibly can’t beat our crew.”
Soludo additionally thanked God for the Enchantment Courtroom judgment that gave him victory over Chuma Umeoj, who was earlier revealed by INEC because the social gathering’s candidate, including that with the judgment, there was now not something like faction in APGA.
He added, “APGA will contest for each vote, in each ward, in each church, in each native authorities, and we’re assured of victory.”
The APGA Nationwide Chairman, Dr Victor Oye, mentioned, “APGA has grown above destruction. We’re warning those that are working in direction of destroying the social gathering to desist from doing so, or they are going to be destroyed.
“Anambra folks have spoken, and so they need Soludo. Let these contesting in opposition to Soludo deliver their certificates, let’s see. We now have a candidate that had firstclass (levels) at each degree of his training. He’s a famend professor of Economics and a former Central Financial institution of Nigeria governor.
“Let that candidate who’s assembling governors from in all places to come back to Anambra present us his certificates first. He has none. We are going to stay steadfast and proceed to wish and hope that the victory trumpet will sound on November 6. Soludo has received the election already and we’re assured of it.
In the meantime, the state governor, Willie Obiano, was named because the chairman of the APGA nationwide marketing campaign council for the ballot.
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