By Chuks Ekemezie
Traders at Onitsha main market have expressed implicit confidence that Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra state would surely gloss over his rivals from other political parties during the November 8 gubernatorial election in the state.
This is because according to them, Soludo has surpassed his expected target in terms of rapid transformation of the state within his three years in office so far, so much so that he has become eminently qualified for a second term in office.
The newly appointed Chairman of Caretaker Committee of Onitsha Main Market Traders Union, OMMATU, Chief Chijioke Okpalaugo who stated this on Thursday at the Main Market While House when he received in audience Indigenes of Nanka community in Orumba North Local Government Area of the state trading at the Main market who were on a solidarity visit to felicitate with him on his recent appointment at Chairman of the market caretaker committee, emphasized that those contesting against Soludo are merely wasting their time, energy and resources.
According to Okpalaugo who is also the Majority Leader of Onitsha North Local Government Legislative Council, “is it not so clear to both the deaf, dumb and blind that Soludo has succeeded in transforming the entire land scape of the state into a Dubai/Taiwan as he promised during his inaugural speech in 2022?”.
Earlier in their solidarity speech, leader of the traders who also are Okpalaugo’s maternal uncles, commended him for his appointment to head the Onitsha main market caretaker committee and expressed confidence that he had already started showing the stuff he is made of by resolving all the outstanding disputes among the traders at the Main market.
According to Ezeobi, “we know Okpalaugo very well. He is an achiever in all fields of human endeavors and we see his appointment as putting a round peg in a round hole, just like also putting a square peg in a square hole”.
On the issue of Soludo, Ezeobi declared: “Soludo has no rival at all as far as Anambra state governorship election is concerned”.
