The Senator Uche Ekwunife I Know by Michael Okafor

After carefully following comments made on this platform especially as it relates to opportunities opened to our women in leadership, I have thought it necessary to make what I consider as wise counsel on the matter.

I will start by quickly drawing attention of members of the public to the fact that by virtue of marriage women have dual citizenship and can therefore take up government offices from both paternal and husbands home states.

I am a 70 years old retiree from Ekwulobia and my daughter is married to an Enugu man. As we speak, she has been made a commissioner in Enugu State. If in future she wants to contest an election in Anambra (OAU), she will also be very qualified to do so.

As for the forth coming governorship election in Anambra state, I wish to state unequivocally that I have followed the political career of Senator Uche Ekwunife through her campaign and her contributions towards human and infrastructural developments, and therefore I have no reservation whatsoever in lining up my family in support of her ambition.

Am doing so because she has the capacity and the capability to deliver on her mandate as the governor of Anambra State. She is not a candidate that waits for people, rather she drives her success.
She is not an emergency philanthropist like we are seeing all over the place now, because elections are coming.

She is one candidates that will have support from Catholics, Anglican and Pentecostal blocks. She will also receive massive support from APC, APGA and PDP.
Indeed she enjoys massive grass root support because she is in touch with the people, she feels their pains, and meets their needs before, during and after elections.
Her legacies are all over the place to be seen not just stories.

Government is not about gender or massive academic profile, it’s about Antecedent of capability and success.
Leadership is a calling and Senator Uche Ekwunife just fits into the mold.

Her political successes are there for everyone to see, some of these other people have failed and failed again, which means they have been rejected over and over again by the people.

The forth coming election should be a moment of reckoning where every candidate will be judged by the contributions that each of them has so far made towards the well being of our people over the years.

A Coursery look at Iyom’s political successes reveals an interesting pattern:
2011 she defeated Dozie Nwankwo who was backed by his inlaw-a sitting Governor of Rivers state.
2015 she floored Dr Ngige and Victor Umeh.
2019 she sent Victor Umeh packing again to regain her mandate.
(so twice she has defeated this political Goliath of Anambra state). These are no mean feats.

This is no time for leadership experimentation, it is a time to go for a leader who has been tested and proven to have the capacity to win elections, not a time for political showmanship and grandstanding.

This time around we don’t need emergency philanthropist.

Let’s keep our eyes open and not send our sense of fundamental decency on vacation.

We need someone we KNOW.

Chief Micheal Okafor
(Akajiugo).