{"id":24470,"date":"2020-02-13T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T10:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24470"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T10:12:14","slug":"anambra-2021-olih-rep-enter-guber-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24470","title":{"rendered":"Anambra 2021: Olih, Rep enter Guber race"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Chuks Moses<\/strong>, Awka
\nAs the countdown to the Anambra 2021 governorship election begins in earnest, more aspirants, especially from the South and Central Senatorial Districts continue to emerge.
\nThe latest is Mr Okwudili TobeOlisa Olih, a professional accountant and businessman. A member of the House of Representatives from the Central Senatorial District is also been tipped
\nTheir entry into the race to replace the incumbent Gov Willie Obiano appears to be distorting all the previous political calculations and permutations. It was revealed that virtually all the key political parties including the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are after Olih, but he has kept his party of choice very close to his chest.
\nA campaign brochure of the aspirant, which is circulating in aming a select audience, but which this reporter saw, reads: “As a home grown son, his key cardinal focus showed he would be close to the people. That he will revolutionise agriculture to produce enough to feed the state and for export. He\u00a0noted that more\u00a0than ninety percent of the state’s land mass is arable and suitable for all-year-round farming and animal husbandry. Our\u00a0subsistent farmers will be systematically modernized to increase their food output. This will be\u00a0done with equal development of agricultural value chain in each crop line. We shall arrange both local and foreign off-takers to buy off all excess produce. Farm inputs, irrigation methods, high yielding crops, fertilizers, pest control methods and tractors would be made readily available especially within the farming cluster areas. Storage facilities, including \u00a0silos would be built as farmers would be supported, assisted and celebrate.
\nHe added also that since modern economy is knowledge-driven, there shall be compulsory free quality primary\u00a0school education in the new Anambra.
\nOlih said further: “Secondary and vocational schools shall be\u00a0equally ranked, and must be of very high standard and made to be viable to feed the industries\u00a0in Anambra. Skills acquired in our vocational, secondary and tertiary institutions shall be\u00a0internationally certified to be acceptable anywhere in the world. The demands of our local\u00a0industries shall per time determine the vocational industrial skills to be promoted by the\u00a0government.
\n“A sound conducive environment is necessary for a healthy productive life. Orderliness and\u00a0cleanliness shall be the defining principle of the new Anambra environment. Urban planning\u00a0and urban renewal will be vigorously pursued to transform the way we live and work. Every\u00a0local government\/community must have a developmental masterplan that agrees to the wishes and\u00a0aspirations of the people in conjunction with the ecosystem. Green and recreational parks will feature prominently in every of our community planning.\u00a0This will be managed by an agency specially set up for that purpose.
\n“Gully erosion that has been ravaging several parts of Anambra state will be vigorously controlled by\u00a0geophysical mapping and detailed co-ordinated channeling of floods all over the state. A new realistic and workable environmental protection and preservation policy shall be pursued. Each dwelling and office premises must provide flood catchment pits, grass lawns as part receptacle of rain waters. Total concreting of floors and premises must be outlawed in order to save our ecosystem.
\n“The entire topography of the state will be taken into account to find an enduring solution to the\u00a0menace.
\n“I shall be accountable to my generation,\u00a0to my children\u2019s generation even to the fourth generation. I am a strong advocate of Leadership\u00a0by shared vision, the collective vision of all Anambra people. So, we must hand over Anambra\u00a0state better than we met it, and prepare the coming generation to perform better than us. We\u00a0shall lead by example, be the light while we can and leave such a legacy that anything below it\u00a0will no longer be acceptable to Anambra people. Needs of the citizens must be prioritized.
\n“This will be first government to be called The Best Friend of Anambra People. The reason is\u00a0simple; every program of my administration shall be focused on building up the\u00a0people. It will be about the people -One hundred percent, 100%. What product or service can lay claim to its full value\u00a0if it does not uplift the people, make their life better, more meaningful and more purposeful. By\u00a0God\u2019s special grace, we shall lift Anambra to great new height through\u00a0youth\/ women empowerment,\u00a0sports and recreational development, tackle\u00a0unemployment, infrastructure deficit,\u00a0Industrialization and Energy development. Other issues include\u00a0Housing and Urban planning\/ renewal plans, strengthening Health and Education sectors as well as\u00a0Civil service reforms amongst other nagging issues like sanitation and innovative erosion control mechanism as indicated earlier.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Chuks Moses, Awka As the countdown to the Anambra 2021 governorship election begins in earnest, more aspirants, especially from the South and Central Senatorial Districts continue to emerge. The latest is Mr Okwudili TobeOlisa Olih, a professional accountant and businessman. A member of the House of Representatives from the Central Senatorial District is also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71,995,318],"class_list":["post-24470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-anambra","tag-okwudili","tag-rep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}