Opinion
By John Isicheli Esq
ANAMBRA State has become a laughing stock under Gov. Chukwuma Soludo, the latest of which has exposed him and the leadership of the state assembly as real enemies of grassroots democracy, they want to kill democracy in Anambra state. The state assembly has also become a willing tool. All the grandstanding about the hurriedly set up ANSIEC and the bullahoya about local government election is Soludo’s desire to continue to fiddle with local government allocation not that he wants to conduct credible local government election. His eyes are gazed at the local government allocation, that’s all! Soludo has become a huge embarrassment and the Speaker of the state assembly, Rt. Hon. Somto Udeze is daily making his assembly the worse in Nigerian democratic history. An assembly that agrees everything, signs everything, denies herself of her own extant rules including motions on urgent public interest/importance and has become a dead wood that only exists to be used by Soludo against the common good of Ndi-Anambra. How can these sets of clauses be smuggled a few hours ago by the Soludo and his rubber stamp – puppet Speaker into the already passed ANSIEC law. Both Soludo and Udeze are shameless. They are also without wisdom. How can they do that. Anambra has become a “banana republic” under a professor without basic knowledge and principles guiding democratic tenets.
The smuggled clauses are;
1. That it is only the state chairmen and not National Chairmen that would submit list of candidates for the September 28 LG election.
2. That where there are leadership crisis in any party, that the National Assembly members from Anambra state elected on the platform of the affected political party would sign the list of the candidates and submit to ANSIEC.
3. that where there are no National Assembly members from Anambra state elected on the platform of the affected political party, the state assembly members elected on the said political party would sign the list of the candidates and submit to ANSIEC.
4. That where there are no National Assembly Members, or State Assembly members elected on the affected political party that the BOT of the party will submit the list to ANSIEC.
Infact, I’m heading to court, this one will not stand. Soludo is not fit to conduct local government election for us in Anambra, he has turned the rules up-side-down. We will challenge everything about this impunity and assault on the sensibilities of Ndi-Anambra.
***Mr. John Isicheli Esq
A.I
Sept. 13, 2024
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