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The Executive Chairman of the Nnewi North Local Government Area, Echezona Anazodo, has reflected on the six-month of his administration, describing the journey as “an action fueled by compassion, shaped by energy and driven by a commitment to serve”.
According to the chairman, through his inspirational leadership, over 500 farmers and traders, including youths in the Area have been empowered in various ways within his first six months in office.
Anazodo said under the period, the local government also made available fertilisers and other farming implements for farmers in the area to prepare them for the 2025 farming season.
The LGA chairman, who disclosed the development while briefing journalists at the council headquarters in Nnewi over the weekend, as part of activities to mark his six months in office, noted that the empowerment and other infrastructural projects in the area cut across political divides.
He said the interactive forum was to create awareness among the people of the area about the activities in the council in the period under review, adding that the programmes were part of the electoral promises he made to the people of Nnewi North LGA during his campaign.
He also expressed satisfaction with the ongoing infrastructure developments across the state spearheaded by the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo’s administration.
According to him, his administration will continue to deliver the needed dividends of democracy to the people in line with Soludo’s vision of making Anambra a destination point in Nigeria.
He said, “Within this period of six months in office as the executive chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area under the political platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, my administration has provided good governance across the four corners of the council area.
“Within this period, my administration has also empowered more than 200 youths in various skills acquisition programmes, purchased the 2025 JAMB forms for hundreds of intelligent indigent students and the ongoing re-construction of Okpaka bridge that has been abandoned for decades by the past administrations.
“The lock-up shops we provided are mainly for the low income traders like ice-fish and fufu sellers. The empowerment gestures are done in partnership with a group known as ‘Nnewi Forum’.
“The group was formed by some relevant stakeholders in the area with the aim of supporting governor Soludo in actualising his vision of making Anambra a clean, green, smart, peaceful, secure, livable and prosperous state in Nigeria.
“This support is meant to help our people grow without adding any burden. My administration is again embarking on a revalidation of street naming to curtail personality conflict among Nnewi sons and daughters.
“We are also planning to reward those who have contributed in one way or the other to the growth and development of the industrial city of the state.”
He said he is using the fund being generated within the council area to execute all the projects and also making the council area more prosperous, expressing satisfaction that the current wave of development in the area was unprecedented.
“I am very much comfortable with the transformation going on at the council. I am towing the path of our solution governor who has vowed to govern the state without borrowing.
“I commend the governor for that, and for running the affairs of the state with genuine intention. I seek the partnership of the media in promoting this administration, we vow to deliver 120 per cent votes for the governor’s reelection bid in the upcoming November 8, 2025 governorship election in the state.
“Therefore, we are promising Mr Governor that we will support him come the November 8 governorship election in Anambra state.”
