Governorship aspirant of Labour Party (LP) for Anambra 2025 election, Mr John Nwosu has berated the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo over his sluggishness is tackling the growing trend of insecurity in the state.
Within the period of yuletide, there have been cases of kidnapping by criminals, including that of the member representing Onitsha North State constituency 1 in the state house of Assembly, Hon Justice Azuka, which happened on the eve of Christmas.
Nwosu reacting to this said: “Clearly, the Soludo administration has failed in articulating what ought to be priorities for Ndi Anambra.
“Statistics indicate a drastic drop in the number of those returning to Anambra for the 2024 Christmas and 2025 New Year Festivities.
“Incidentally, for some inexplicable reasons, the state government said it had mapped out ameliorative measures for tackling insecurity in the state which it would put in place beginning in January 2025. This seems to be a case of putting the cart before the horse.”
Soludo had recently announced that his government plans to launch a joint security operation, codenamed; Operation Udo Ga Achi, in late January.
But Nwosu is wondering why Soludo has to wait until late January, when December is the period where indigenes of the state from far and wide return home to savour Christmas. He described it as misplaced priority.
“It is most embarrassing that an eminent Anambra prelate is still missing and on Christmas Eve an incumbent member of the Anambra State Assembly representing Onitsha North was kidnapped.
“Certainly, Anambra people can’t afford to continue supporting a governor who schedules security interventions as if he is scheduling a social appointment.
“State Security is a 24/7 project anchored on a firm commitment and allocation of the required resources, personnel, equipments and materials.
“The present Anambra State Government cannot be allowed to mortgage the security of the State and people, period. We cannot be on Exile from our Homeland.Change is needed.
“Since declaring my interest to run for the Anambra Governorship in 2025, I have repeatedly flagged insecurity as the overarching challenge in the state.
“Unabating violence, rampant killings and kidnappings have since proven me right and pointed to the stark failure of Gov. Charles Soludo’s administration to meet its statutory responsibility to protect citizens of Anambra. Visitors, indigenes, non-indigenes returnees, Diasporans all know and assert that insecurity is the major bane in Anambra.”
