People of Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, has
assured Governor Willie Obiano of 99 per cent in his re-election bid ahead of
the November 18 governorship polls in the state.
Obiano’s wife, Ebele, hails from Oyi Local Government Area
of the state.
The promise was made when the national coordinator of
Stakeholders for Willie Obiano 2nd Tenure, Chief Ekene Enefe, who visited
Governor Obiano’s wife’s community, Ogbunike, for a town hall meeting.
Chief Enefe had told the audience that the Governor had
lived up to his campaign promises in many parts of Anambra State including
Ogbunike and was still doing more in community development projects through
making available funding to 179 communities in the State. He said Obiano was
qualified to continue.
He noted that in as much as the governor had done some road
projects and provided some infrastructure in Ogbunike he would not concentrate
on that community alone, lest he be accused of giving too much attention to his
in-laws.
“The governor cannot face all your problems at the same
time, so that he will not be accused of facing his in-laws. Support him for his
second tenure so that he can, thereafter, finish other needs of Ogbunike. And
you know our daughter will not sleep until Ogbunike becomes a small London.
“People may accuse the governor of developing the Anambra
North where he comes from, but that is what all other past Governors did while
they considered other areas.
Supporters of the group in the community regretted that many
governors of the state in the past never turned their eyes to Ogbunike, leaving
the community in total neglect until nature smiled on them with their daughter
as wife of the governor.
They thanked Governor Obiano for what he has so far
done for their community, but drew his attention to Oyeolisa Ogbunike and some
other roads, saying that they were the only community on the old road that had
no link with the expressway and asked for the state government’s intervention.
The community appealed to Governor Obiano to equip and
deploy doctors and other medical personnel to a community health centre built
by the Federal Government in the area so that it would become functional.
Coordinator of the support group in Ogbunike, Chief Samuel
Tochukwu Obiako, who sponsored the event along with Chief Enefe, said the
community and other parts of the state knew what they went through in terms of
security challenges before Obiano took over the mantle of leadership in Anambra
State.
“We are privileged that our daughter is the First Lady in
Anambra State. That is why we have shown our massive support. Many roads have
been constructed in Ogbunike but our people are not wrong to ask for more,”
Chief Obiako noted.
Another speaker, Comrade Godwin Ibekwe, former labour leader
in Anambra said for the Governor to have been consistent in paying workers’
salaries in the State should be enough reason to give him another opportunity
to continue.
By David Onwuchekwa
