Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, representing Anambra South Senatorial District, recently announced his intention to run for the position of governor in Anambra State in 2025.
In a conversation with journalists at his Nnewi residence on Sunday evening, Ubah expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of the current governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, and criticized the overall developmental and policy initiatives of successive governments in the state, deeming them inadequate for uplifting the state.
He said: “I repeat, I will do a single term in office if I win the election. I don’t need more than four years to develop the state, I don’t need four years to implement some of the plans I have.
“A singular tenure of four years is my commitment to Anambra people. I will give them quality, robust and direction-driven leadership.
“I will shrink the current and past government into 20 percent. 80 parcent of the content I intend to bring in Anambra has not been discussed before. In four months of being elected, I intend to conduct local government election and they will stay for four years. This will shed the weight of governance off the governor, and the 21 local governments will run on their own and development will be simultaneous.
“I know you will say that others have made such promises, but this is my commitment with the people that I will do a single term. I’m different from those who have given this promise before. My people know me as one who sticks to his word. I will have resounding engagement with stakeholders meeting, and some of them will be written and others verbal.
“Why I am different from others is that I’m a man who has key man risk. Am not saying you must be rich to become governor, but you must have key assets, and the people know that you are one of them and have assets that make you a stakeholder in the state.
“It will not be fair to me to put the kind of investments I have in Anambra, and my children can not come home to Anambra because of insecurity. We need to fix Anambra and that is the passion I have, and that is why I will be contesting the next governorship election.”
Ubah said: “I have a burning desire to contest the next governorship election in Anambra because this government and those before it has not been able to put the state in the development trajectory that our people desire.
“We have a need to create support for our commerce, we have to develop our sector to make it a hub for health tourists and we have to accelerate community development through local government elections.
“Voting people with over over-bloated personality and structure has failed us, it time we vote for people with passion, people with a track record, that is who I represent, I am prepared to change the narrative, that is why my manifesto has remained the same from 2013 till date,” he said.
