By Ivan Chiagoziem
Barely one month to the isolated November 8, 2025 Anambra State gubernatorial election, the evident wave of Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo’s developmental strides across the state, ardently weaved around his disruptive play of politics, seems to have bemused the opposition parties and entrapped the ill-tempered candidates in their fold into electioneering snares and gaffes that heighten their alienation from their gubernatorial ambition. Soludo’s sworn commitment to his carefully crafted “The Soludo Solution – a People’s Manifesto for a Greater Anambra” has kept him on track of providing Anambra people unprecedented democracy deliverables. His dedication to delivering: prime road infrastructures, revolutionalised education and health sectors; regenerated environment, proficient youth empowerment, ICT intervention scheme, institutionalised best practices in governance, efficient civil and public service; functional recreation sector, effective and sustainable security structure; and other persuasive demands of the people, has yielded undeniable premium impacts that have roundly sullied any ground upon which the oppositions could generate credible criticisms to vitiate his unassailable electoral prowess. So Soludo marches on to November 8, 2025 Anambra gubernatorial election victory undeterred as it were.
The tremendous gains Soludo has made in governance conduce to the outright bewilderment of serial office seekers who chanced upon political parties’ gubernatorial candidature to titillate their ego and hype their political relevance as co-competitors with Soludo in an election; an election where the votes of all the other candidates put together promise to produce a mere fraction of Soludo’s vote haul. Does the beauty of democracy not include accommodation of plural interests and the liberty of individuals to test their popularity or lack of it at the polls? But given the facts on the ground, one could jolly well conclude that the November 8, 2025 Anambra gubernatorial election provides the most easily predictable result in the annals of gubernatorial elections east of the Niger. Reasons abound!
One of the most important things Ndi-Anambra demand from any government is road infrastructure. Give the people physical access, and they will readily and gladly drive civilizing values to the extremities of the state. Admittedly, Anambra State has a history of past governors’ various attempt at improving the road infrastructure in the state; but none of those in anyway compares to the new meaning the Soludo administration has given to road construction across the state. Never before has Awka, the capital city of Anambra, been so adorned with well-appointed arterial roads that ventilate its ambience as a capital city. Beyond that, the administration has successfully delivered very strategic legacy road infrastructure in Okpoko where an erstwhile intractable urban slum has been transformed into a model mini city. Other vital roads of existential essence to the localities of their domicile constructed by the Soludo administration include the Amansea-Ugbenu-Ugbene-Awbaofemili stretch; the Amansea-Ndiukwuenu-Ufuma stretch; the Mmiata-Anam to Nzam road and many other such special intervention roads linking communities across the state that were hitherto inaccessible and therefore invariably denied integral development agents that go with outside influences. Soludo’s fast-paced mega expansion and reconstruction of major roads like Amawbia-Ekwulobia-Uga; Agulu-Nnobi-Nnewi and other such roads linking the major cities across the three senatorial zones in the state leave the opposition no room to campaign on roads.
The imposing Light House project that dignifies Anambra’s seat of power demystifies decades of riddled conjectures surrounding a State House that suffered crass abandonment. Today, the Government House, with the ambience of authority and relevant trappings of power, suitably sits in Awka as a testimony of Soludo-effect, to the pride of Anambra people.
Anambra people are globally known to be very enterprising, working their skins off to succeed in their various economic interests. By the erection of the Solution Fun City, a classy compendious recreation facility in the heart of Awka city, the Soludo administration gave flesh to the aphorism that “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Ndi-Anambra and indeed the teeming population of quality fun-seeking persons across Nigeria now have a vintage recreation edifice to meet their quests for optimal relaxation with all the collateral benefits.
The policy thrust of the Soludo administration in the education sector ensures the growing population of school enrolment and very low statistics of out of school children. Why not! With the free primary and secondary education scheme, the bold repudiation of harsh conditions like conversion of textbooks to workbooks to render them unusable at the end of every session, and the abrogation of sundry fees and charges in schools, parents and guardians are availed funds on such cost points for other domestic needs. How about the boost in quality education by the employment of well over 5000 qualified teachers in public schools? The education sector has known no better times than the current Soludo Solution Footprints. The rewards are seen in the high performance of Anambra students in external examinations and academic competitions.
The health sector is evidently a beneficiary of Governor Soludo’s commitment to the wellness of the people. With the employment of over 3000 medical doctors and ancillary medical personnel, the upgrading of the primary, secondary and tertiary health facilities in the state, and many innovative trends in the sector, the government has undeniably ensured improved health services delivery in the state.
The success of One Youth Two Skills programme has continued to give the state thousands of entrepreneurs groomed and empowered to effectively provide more employment opportunities for job seekers.
The achievements of the Soludo administration in stemming the spread of insecurity and insisting on sane demeanours are demonstrable in the increasing numbers of vanquished criminals’ camps on record. This has enabled the recovery of seven Local Government Areas spread between Anambra South and Anambra North Senatorial Zones which were hitherto overtaken by criminal gangs. Sequel to that is the government’s effort to reinvent the prized value system that enables the ethos of hard work and unbleached integrity as the route to sustainable affluence and social recognition.
The above representational indices of good governance that populate Soludo’s unassailable record in the past 42 months of his stewardship in Anambra State make Governor Soludo and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) impregnable come November 8 Anambra gubernatorial poll. Little wonder the oppositions in their little corners settle for inconsequential tantrums that only further entrench the electoral supremacy of Mr. Governor and his homegrown APGA.
Chiagoziem, a socio-political commentator, writes from Abuja.
