ANAMBRA UNDER PETER OBI
1. Under his tenure, Anambra State is no longer a pariah Statethat was scorned and laughed at. For the first time, Ambassadors of such countries as USA, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, Dutch, Canada, Venezuela, Ghana, among others, visited the State.

2. Many International organizations want to identify with Anambra State.

3. Anambra is held by development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, European Union as the no.1 State committed to reforms and development.

4. Under him, the Debt Management Office rated Anambra as the least indebted State in Nigeria. In spite of the wonders he is performing in the State, he has not borrowed money from any financial institution.

5. Under him, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable.

6. Under him, the Federal Ministry of Works has adjudged Anambra as having the best network of roads in the country having asphalted over 600 Kilometres of roads.

7. He is building roads in areas of the State that did not have any single road before him because of their difficult terrain, eg, Anambra West, Anambra East and Ogbaru Local Governments.

8. To complement the impressive work on road construction, he is constructing 20 bridges across the State out of which 13 have been completed such as OdorBridge, OtukuBridge, AghomiliBridge, OgbonaboBridge, ObibiaBridge, EbenebeBridge, Okpu Bridge, among others.

9. He is working on over 18 medium schemes water projects across the State.

10. Known as the Governor of many firsts, under him, AnambraState has the first Secretariat, first Business Parks, first stadia, witnessing the phenomenal development of the Permanent Site of her University, the first Master Plans for the State's major cities of Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi, among others.

11. He recently returned missionary schools, taken from them since 1970 to them, with the grant of 6 billion Naira to rehabilitate the schools.

12. He has entered into strategic partnership with the Churches for the services their various institutions offer to the State. In health, he has restored grants to them and has made available the sum of 3 billion for them to rehabilitate their hospitals.

13. Gov. Obi was the first to provide and distribute to Anambra Schools the following: over 13,000 desktop/laptop computers; over 120 30kva generators; internet access to over 200 schools; over 120 buses to schools and provided boreholes to over 300 schools. He built classroom blocks in all the 177 communities in the State.

14. He has attracted a lot of foreign investors to the State. Among them are two Fortune 500 companies out of which one of them, SABmiller, will start production in July/August.

15. Under him, after investing over 4 Billion Naira in Orient petroleum, the first by Anambra State Government, Anambra will soon join oil producing States with Orient petroleum set to commence production any moment.

16. He is also working on over 25 active erosion sites, some completed, others on-going, eg, Umuchiani Erosion, Ebenebe Erosion, Nkpor Erosion, Adazi-Nnukwu Erosion, Utuh Eroaion, Osumenyi Erosion, among others.

17. Among his many intangible achievements is the payment of all outstanding pensions and gratuities in the State since 1999. On this he has spent over 4 Billion Naira to over 4000 families that benefitted. Today retirees in the State get their full benefits within three months of retirement.

18. Under him, Dr. Magnus Kpakol of NAPEP said Anambra was the No 1 in terms of reduction in poverty.

19. In the last one week, the State Teaching hospital and College of Medicine conceived and built by him, secured accreditation from the medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.


Also, he has been the object of positive commentaries from important quarters.


1. AnambraState is one of the topmost states in Nigeria in terms of getting things done and commitment to good governance.

- Canadian High Commissioner to Nige

So this is what Peter Obi did that made him The Best

Construction of township bridges

Can recreate this Tinubu's achievements in another thread?

trutharena:
Lol so this is the man they are comparing to Asiwaju?

I’m Education alone, below is Asiwaju achievements.

TheNiceGuy:
Can recreate this Tinubu's achievements in another thread?

I did the thread already.

Investigative:
We have taken time to extract some of the achievements of the former governor;

Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.
For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as United States, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, among others, visited the State. Before my tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.
Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.
He was recognised as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.
The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.
The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.
The State’s ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners – Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.
The State also entered into strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 million Dollars in various types of support.
Through partnership with the Church in the Health sector, his Government funded the transformation of -:
a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;

b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;

c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;

d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and

e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.



His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunisation in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.
The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.
Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.
The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.
More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.
Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.
Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.

17 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built their first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged under our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which our government bought more than 1,000 vehicles.
Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.
To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.
His Administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu teaching Hospital, Awka.
His Government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).
His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion – National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) – to Anambra State.
His Government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of our poverty-alleviation strategies.
His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha and Nnewi.
During his tenure and with his Government’s support, Anambra State became an oil producing State.
He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.
His government commenced the development of the ‘Three Arms Zone’ comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.
By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when we took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.
Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinised State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID.

i love u 4 this

trutharena:
Lol so this is the man they are comparing to Asiwaju?

I’m Education alone, below is Asiwaju achievements.

Why not create a tread for this? Or you want campaigns to officially commence first?

With everything mentioned abt BAT look at the recognition peter obi for the things he did look at how he was applauded not just in Nigeria.

We are not talking of building and infrastructure made in your name where you can have access to people's money all in the name of helping them

Peter Obi performance as governor outweighs Bola Tinubu performance as governor.

You can Go and Verify !

However, Bola Tinubu outperformed Peter Obi in election rigging and thuggery/Agbero.

TheNiceGuy:
So this is what Peter Obi did that made him The Best

Construction of township bridges

Is that the only Peter Obi achievement that you saw?