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Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by Preciousnelly19: 7:32pm On Nov 06, 2017
Why i will vote Willie Obiano

NWAFOR POLYCARP 
17 OCT 2017

By Chuks Iloegbunam

SOMEONE  brought to the office a video clip of Tony Nwoye “campaigning”. Since the man is the APC candidate in the November 18 Anambra governorship election, the urge to view his message was overpowering, especially as he had been rather taciturn since the contentious primary election that threw him up as his party’s candidate.

What was his governorship ambition all about? Decked out in a dark suit, a cordless microphone appeared glued to his lips.

“Willie Obiano is a thief,” shouted Tony Nwoye. “His wife also is a thief.” He mouthed this abuse for the second and third times. Like a repeater station, the voice of an unseen fellow echoed his foul words. A few of his listeners clapped. In a minute the clip ended. What an anticlimax, I thought.

Tony Nwoye’s sacrilegious tongue apart, there was the more serious tenor of malicious prejudice in this unsubstantiated accusation. Was his fulmination the sum total of the APC’s manifesto? One assumed that, in soliciting for political endorsement, effort must be made to portray the candidate as deserving of support.
Did the outpouring of invectives ever solve any society’s problems? I immediately reckoned with the link between Tony Nwoye’s diatribe and the standard fare of the PDP in Anambra State, that has converted into a fine art the usage of the social media for mendacious effusions.

We will return to these aberrant behaviours. In the meantime, an introduction of Chinua Achebe integrity is important. When Abuja toyed with investing the distinguished novelist with a national honour, he struck a resounding blow for the oppressed, and demonstrated that real Ndigbo never put forward their conscience for sale. In a letter addressed to President Obasanjo and dated October 15, 2004, Achebe said inter alia:

“I write this letter with a very heavy heart. For some time now I have watched events in Nigeria with alarm and dismay. I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. I am appalled by the brazenness of this clique and the silence, if not connivance, of the Presidency…

“Nigeria’s condition today under your watch is, however, too dangerous for silence. I must register my disappointment and protest by declining to accept the high honour awarded me in the 2004 Honours List.”

Well, Anambra has come a long way since the heady days of PDP’s governance of the State. Therefore, Governor Willie Obiano was able to deliver this proclamation last Year: “Ndi Anambra, when I assumed office with my team on March 17, 2014, we took over a state that had no landmark infrastructure and no clear-cut strategic vision for the future.

And perhaps more importantly, we met a state that was heavily traumatised by violent armed robbery, kidnapping, child-trafficking and endless cases of drug-related crimes. This crime-ridden scenario discouraged investments and successfully cut off the state from the grid of modern development.

Ladies and gentlemen, my team and I inherited a state with an average ambition but through strategic refocusing and a commitment to excellence, we have repositioned Anambra among Nigeria’s leading states today!”

Now, Governor Obiano is seeking re-election, to consolidate his administration’s legacy. The imminent governorship election means that the elephant’s carcass lies prostrate on the ground, and everybody has reached for their knife, to cut themselves a helping of its meat. Not surprisingly, there are more than 30 candidates primed for the contest. Of course, most of them are in it for keeping up appearances. But Oseloka Obaze and Tony Nwoye, PDP and the APC candidates respectively, deserve some attention, if only because they are of parties with some grounding in Nigerian politics.

You expected these dudes to say in concrete terms what they would do differently if they attained the political power they are hankering for. Governor Obiano has restored the peace and stability of an Anambra State previously reduced to a criminal fiefdom, as Achebe put it. He has transformed Awka into a real capital city.

He has attracted investments both local and foreign. He has revolutionised agriculture in the state. He is taking particularly good care of government employees and retirees, paying their salaries and pensions and gratuities promptly and regularly. He has given back to Ndigbo their pride.

Now it is the place of those challenging Governor Obiano for Anambra’s governorship to, at least, have the good sense to state what they intend to do differently to further improve the lot of the people. Instead they are throwing curses and falsehoods about like confetti. If Tony Nwoye knows no better than to excoriate Anambra’s Number One Citizen and his dear wife, Oseloka Obaze, given the fact that he worked under Governor Obiano, should restrain the lying excesses of his campaign loudspeakers.

Perhaps, he has bounded himself up a dilemma, knowing that the world knows that he would not be in politics today had Peter Obi not commandeered him godfather-like into the gambit. Even Peter Obi himself knows that the world knows that his self-imposed objective of dethroning Governor Obiano is nothing to do with principles.

Otherwise, they would not aggregate and deploy mudslingers and quasi-journalists in the demeaning fixation with interminable lies on the Internet, the newspapers and frequency modulated wavebands.

I recently met with Anyanwu (Mrs.) Bianca Ojukwu who professed an inability to get over Peter Obi’s betrayal of APGA because it was in front of her eyes that he solemnly vowed before her husband, Dim Ojukwu, that he would forever keep the APGA flag flying.

How should Ndi Anambra respond to the contingency of their salvaged state being handed over to the PDP?  Isn’t the prospect of the return of those that abducted a siting Governor and turned Anambra into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom too hazardous to contemplate?

What is there to say to the traitorous, the folks that see public office as an exclusive club only for the initiated, who have no time to appreciate that governance is about the welfare of the people rather than a religion of rules and protocols?

The good news is that Anambra’s choice in the impending ballot is unambiguous. Ndi Anambra know the antecedents of the candidates and the sleight of hand masquerading as godfatherism. They know those  others whose “good morning” should inevitably induce a retirement for the night. They know that it is anathema to ditch General Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s party and settle for an alternative that grudgingly ceded to our people a miserable seven percent of democracy’s dividends.

They understand that the equitably arranged zoning principle that should see the governorship in Anambra South in 2022 will be irredeemably compromised if unprincipled conspirators and recidivists forced the hardworking Willie Obiano from office. Those are the reasons I will cast my vote for Governor Willie Obiano.

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Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by charliman2012: 8:39pm On Nov 06, 2017
Nice one
Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by senatordave1(m): 11:43pm On Nov 06, 2017
Apga paid paid propagandists at work.change the title to why you would not vots for obiano but for nwoye.up apc.
Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by Sunofgod(m): 11:57pm On Nov 06, 2017
Apga....
Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by nonsobaba: 2:39am On Nov 07, 2017
Willie is the best. End of discussion.
Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by Shawnnn01: 3:14am On Nov 07, 2017
I can not believe I read the junk top to bottom searching for the crime of Nwoye. I am not sorry to say but the hate Igbo brew for Nigeria will eventually lead to their total extinction. This Igbo clown blamed the likes of APC n PDP candidate for abuse on Obiano but totally forget that is what Igbo politics is all about.
Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by GODISGREAT123: 4:25am On Nov 07, 2017
Tony Nwoye is complete bad market in Anambra. Dude can even send people on exile with his cult gangs.

By the way, Willie has done well so far. He deserves his second term

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Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by GODISGREAT123: 4:41am On Nov 07, 2017
*WILLIE OBIANO CAME AND*:-

1. Gave Anambra State a beautiful crest and a logo

2. Gave Anambra State a melodious Anthem.

3. Turn Awka Anambra State Capital into emerging great city from the east.

4. Light up many communities in Anambra State.

5. Reequipped Anambra Security outfits including army, navy, police, vigilante and commanded them to become more formidable. (It remind me that a hundreds of lions led by a lamb cannot be compared with a hundred of lambs led by a lion, the difference is quite clear).

6. Inspired an agricultural revolution like never before in Anambra.

7. Retired most of the old cargos Peter Obi appointed into his cabinet including OHO and replaced them with youths.

8. Introduced community choose your project scheme which is fast being emulated across many states in Nigeria.

9. United APGA and kept them under one fold through his reconciliatory moves.

10. He transformed the health sector like never before.

11. Have been humane even to have appointed physical challenged graduates into his govt.

12. Have steered Anambra State through the trying time of recession without taking bailout fund as many states did.

13. He turn Anambra's economy into one of the fastest growing economy beside Lagos.

14. Has initiated and completed 3 flyovers in Awka to make it look a befitting city to behold.

15. Have initiated and completed 3 bridges that connect agro produce communities, Anambra Oil rigs and beyond.

16. Has won every award that there is for his excellent performance in a time that the whole nation is crumbled under economic hardship.

17. Have continued to pay civil servants their monthly salaries on time even when many states in the country were having backlogs of salaries and have to borrow to pay some.

18. Have promoted state civil servants and increased their salaries in a country where there mass retrenchment abounds.

19.Many Ndi Anambra, Ndi Igbo and non indigenes from across the nation have been relocating their business to Anambra owing to Willie Obiano's passionate AKULUONO CRUSADES.

20. Willie Obiano has under 3.5 years transformed Anambra to our original name *LIGHT OF THE NATION!!!*

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Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by Cjrane2: 11:25pm On Nov 07, 2017
nonsobaba:
Willie is the best. End of discussion.


Those APC goons campaigning against no elections in Anambra through cleverly using IPOB never say Obiano has failed. Instead, they are discouraging people to come out in their hope to use their own imported thugs. Let me state that Willie Obiano is not an average Nigeria politician. Before Peter Obi and Willie Obiano, Anambra recorded last in ALL development indices and was a den of criminals. Today, you cannot mention anything positive from economic growth to education to positive health outcomes without Anambra being in among the first 10 states! It is an impressive achievement. So STOP peddling falsehoods that nothing has changed in Anambra for decades. We all know it is a big lie.

Part of the problem with Nigerians is refusing to participate and expecting things to magically change. I wonder how you can win a tournament match such as FIFA World cup if you simply decided not to play a match outside of FIFA rules and regulations.

Now apply the above analogy to boycotting an election where the rule does not say a Governorship election should in anyway affect how Nigeria is run. The law clearly allows the appointment of sole administrators to run states where an election is not possible. Perhaps Nnamdi Kanu is insensitive to this issue because he isn't from Anambra, but people from there who had seen schools closed for one due to non-payment of salaries and complete collapse of every infrastructure in the state will never wish to return to such nightmarish situation. Especially if their sacrifice will be meaningless in bringing any sort of change nationally unless it is perfomed simultaneously in 12 states and in a Presidential election.


Now to the plot by APC to somehow engineer a poor voters turnout so that people they hired from other states can vote and rig their former university cult leader into the Governor. We already know that only APGA selects the best candidates to rule any part of Igboland. The other parties for some strange reasons select the worst criminals and anti-social elements from Igboland to foist on Igbos as their leaders.

The so called IPOB plan to boycott gubernatorial Anambra elections was an unfortunate misunderstanding of what the constitution says. So it was ill thought out and flawed from the start. You have got to do things within what is possible within the law. There is NO WHERE in Nigerian constitution where it said if you failed to vote in a gubernatorial election, it would amount to any sort of constitutional issue for the country.

Nigeria's 1999 constitution did say that to become a PRESIDENT of Nigeria, you MUST have 25% of the votes in 24 STATES. This clause means that if you can prevent elections from holding in 12 states, you will create a constitutional problem that will make it possible for anyone to be declared PRESIDENT. To achieve No election in 12 states out of 17 states in southern Nigeria will require concerted collaboration between Afenifere, Ohaneze and other socio-political groups. Anambra ALONE cannot cause such national effect even in a Presidential election talkmore the misguided campaign to boycott a gubernatorial election.

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Re: Why I Would Vote For Willie Obiano by TheKingdom: 11:59pm On Nov 07, 2017
GODISGREAT123:


*WILLIE OBIANO CAME AND*:-

1. Gave Anambra State a beautiful crest and a logo

2. Gave Anambra State a melodious Anthem.

3. Turn Awka Anambra State Capital into emerging great city from the east.

4. Light up many communities in Anambra State.

5. Reequipped Anambra Security outfits including army, navy, police, vigilante and commanded them to become more formidable. (It remind me that a hundreds of lions led by a lamb cannot be compared with a hundred of lambs led by a lion, the difference is quite clear).

6. Inspired an agricultural revolution like never before in Anambra.

7. Retired most of the old cargos Peter Obi appointed into his cabinet including OHO and replaced them with youths.

8. Introduced community choose your project scheme which is fast being emulated across many states in Nigeria.

9. United APGA and kept them under one fold through his reconciliatory moves.

10. He transformed the health sector like never before.

11. Have been humane even to have appointed physical challenged graduates into his govt.

12. Have steered Anambra State through the trying time of recession without taking bailout fund as many states did.

13. He turn Anambra's economy into one of the fastest growing economy beside Lagos.

14. Has initiated and completed 3 flyovers in Awka to make it look a befitting city to behold.

15. Have initiated and completed 3 bridges that connect agro produce communities, Anambra Oil rigs and beyond.

16. Has won every award that there is for his excellent performance in a time that the whole nation is crumbled under economic hardship.

17. Have continued to pay civil servants their monthly salaries on time even when many states in the country were having backlogs of salaries and have to borrow to pay some.

18. Have promoted state civil servants and increased their salaries in a country where there mass retrenchment abounds.

19.Many Ndi Anambra, Ndi Igbo and non indigenes from across the nation have been relocating their business to Anambra owing to Willie Obiano's passionate AKULUONO CRUSADES.

20. Willie Obiano has under 3.5 years transformed Anambra to our original name *LIGHT OF THE NATION!!!*

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See them, old school propagandist when people have awoken to the fraud that is APGA/PDP/APC/ in fact the NIGGER AREA

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