USAfricaPOLITICS: Ifeanyi Ubah tells Soludo politics of “textbook grammatical grandstanding” are over.
A candidate for the Governorship position of Nigeria’s Anambra State for the November 6, 2021 election, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), has taken the campaign battle to the technocrat former Governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank Prof. Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). The petroleum products logistics businessman advised the global financial development scholar Soludo “that the era of ‘textbook grammatical grandstanding’ and theoretical politics is over in Anambra. Our people now want a leader with practicable ideas and dynamism to move the state forward. Ideas that will proffer sustainable solutions to the socio-economic problems beclouding the state due to bad governance brought to the fore by the present government.”
Ubah who represents Anambra South (Soludo’s senatorial region at the Senate of Nigeria), stated today Sunday August 22, 2021 that “I have watched with keen interest, the mudslinging and needlessly disruptive comment made by Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance to the effect that WAEC Certificate holders cannot govern Anambra State. To the glory of God, having recently graduated with a 2.2 LL.B Hons from the Prestigious Baze University, Abuja by dint of hard work, I do not consider it necessary or feel the obsessive compulsion to flaunt my University Degree as it is not a prerequisite to contest for Governorship.”
Ubah described the comments reportedly made by Prof. Soludo as “a game of misdirection which seeks to distract us from focusing on robust policy arguments and constructive debates that will resolve the palpable crises of governance in Anambra State.”
On Friday, August 20, 2021, Prof. Soludo commended and compared his party’s candidates to the others. Specifically, he is quoted to have said in Awka that: “APGA has a star-studded team for this election and it is the party with the best brains. Look at other political parties and their candidates, and you will find out that they have just first school leaving certificate and others the West African Senior School Certificate as their highest qualification. Is it first school leaving certificate and WASSCE they will use to govern Anambra? Anambra has outgrown such and you cannot use those certificates to govern Anambra. Look at my running mate, Dr Onyekachi Ibezim, a medical doctor. You can’t beat our team.”
Ubah has, therefore, decided: “I am challenging Prof. Soludo to an open public manifesto debate with me. Let us put our manifestos out before the court of public opinion and adjudication so as to let the people decide their preferred candidate whose agenda resonates with the layman and electorate…. elections and the debates that follow should be solely focused on issues that will be beneficial to the electorate, not about throwing everything, including the kitchen sink at each other.” The election and the campaigns are being featured by the multimedia, interactive platforms of USAfrica,
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