Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu- Akeredolu, yesterday, officially declared her interest to represent Imo East Senatorial District (Owerri zone) in the Senate in 2023.

Anyanwu-Akeredolu, fondly called Ada Owerri, which is her traditional chieftaincy title, made the declaration, yesterday, while addressing members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Imo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Owerri.

According to her, her aspiration to represent his pre-marital zone in the Senate was gingered by the need to address the gross under-development and infrastructural deficit in her maiden home of Emeabiam in Owerri West local council and the other eight local councils that make up the zone.

She regretted that successive administrations had neglected the zone, commending the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for approving the construction of a five-kilometre road in her area.

Her words: “I am running for Senate to represent Imo East Senatorial Zone. There is nothing wrong in that other than to change the narratives of power in the zone.

I will go there to make sure that life is made easier.
“Owerri people have acknowledged my importance. When it comes to infrastructural facilities, I am reaching out to everyone. I am a daughter from Owerri that is coming back to fix the community. I have structure in Imo.”

Asked the political party she would run on its platform, Anyanwu-Akeredolu said: “I am the wife of an All Progressives Congress (APC) sitting governor. Where else will I be? APC is the party. If you want to be a good party person, whatever your party arrives at, you have to abide by it,” she added.

She maintained that since her 40 years of marriage (since 1980) in Ondo State, she has ensured good relationship between Imo and Ondo states via constant visits to Imo State every December and other festive periods except when she undertook a two-year study abroad.

She also said she had used her Breast Cancer Foundation to touch the lives of many people in Imo State. Imo East Senatorial District has nine local councils comprising Owerri Municipal, Owerri North, Owerri West, Mbaitoli, Ikeduru, Ezinihitte Mbaise, Aboh Mbaise, Ahiazu Mbaise and Ngor Okpala.

SmartPolician:
How can the Ondo First Lady represent a constituency in Imo State?

Nigeria has never been (and will never be) a serious country.

moneycentral20:
Ahead of the nations much expected 2023 general election, the prevailing political environment in Imo State had assumed a new dimension, this is because , Chief Mrs Betty Anyanwu Akeredolu, the First Lady of Ondo State has joined the race for the Imo East Senatorial District (Owerri Zone).

Mrs Akeredolu who is the Founder of the Before Empowered Foundation, Ondo Widows Care as well as Taekwondo Foundation hails from Emeabiam in the Owerri West local government area of the State.

Fondly called ‘Ada Owere’ (Owerri First Daughter), Akarerdolu made her ambition.known at an interactive session with members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Imo State during which she pledged to tackle the worrisome cases of infant and maternal mortality arising from minor or major complicated pregnancies, non availability of functional health care centres, life saving equipment and the lack of infrastructure in the zone.

Read more: https://moneycentral.com.ng/moneycentral-east/article/2023-ondo-first-lady-joins-race-for-imo-east-senatorial-seat/

Proudlyomonna:
O wu na the woman wu onye apc ya jefuo ya,maka Mgbali ya niile ga-abu ihe efu
We are going the Apga way full time in Imo State.
Oge e ruola i jupu ndi otu apcheat na pdthief na Ala Imo Steeti.

edmaraja:
What happen? Them no let am contest for ondo? I am not surprised by anything sophisticated moröns do anymore. Even governor's wife can't contest because of tribalism. Barbaric people

edmaraja:
What happen? Them no let am contest for ondo? I am not surprised by anything sophisticated moröns do anymore. Even governor's wife can't contest because of tribalism. Barbaric people

edmaraja:
What happen? Them no let am contest for ondo? I am not surprised by anything sophisticated moröns do anymore. Even governor's wife can't contest because of tribalism. Barbaric people

edmaraja:
What happen? Them no let am contest for ondo? I am not surprised by anything sophisticated moröns do anymore. Even governor's wife can't contest because of tribalism. Barbaric people

edmaraja:
What happen? Them no let am contest for ondo? I am not surprised by anything sophisticated moröns do anymore. Even governor's wife can't contest because of tribalism. Barbaric people

Coolsperm:
She should contest for ondo east senatorial seat, after all is easier to win election in the SW than SE considering the fact that Yoruba Muslims are more interested in cups of rice and red oil which Tinubu have been using to decieve them

SmartPolician:
How can the Ondo First Lady represent a constituency in Imo State?

Nigeria has never been (and will never be) a serious country.