MAZI EJIMOFOR OPARA
Gov. Soludo is not the kind of leader you work with and feel the unbridled compulsion to always write. Writing for or about Soludo comes naturally if you’re a great curator of thoughts, a deft Rapporteur who picks up the tiniest of details. I’m not surprised that books have already been written about his 46-month-old administration, just two months shy of a full term cycle.
Suffice it to say that if Soludo hadn’t scaled through at the November 8 gubernatorial polls, he has unmistakably left legacies for generations of Ndi Anambra alive and yet to be born. Legacies in the mold of hardline transition between epochs. In a nutshell, someone who left Anambra four years ago will come back to a totally different State, and those who existed before Soludo’s coming are incapable of recognizing the Anambra of today!
His policies are not mere silhouettes; they are clear reflections of broad-based changes in perception and behaviours. They are structures and institutions with precise functionality. They are not mere statements of problems but clear-cut designs of solutions. From dismantling the abstract contraption of the deadly “Okeite” scourge to retooling a globally competitive human capital, Soludo is recreating what it means to be “Onye Anambra”.
Infrastructure is taken for granted as given. Yet, he is unrivaled in terms of the quality, spread, and impact of his infrastructural interventions. His politics is firm and directional. Soludo is not a leader who sensationalizes or entertains — zero pretenses. For him, real meets real. No sugar-coating, no sensationalism.
The next 48 months will be a journey of trust in the face of turbulence, not because Ndi Anambra don’t dread the storms, but because they trust the Pilot!