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Like the Canadian-born American architect and designer, Frank Gehry, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi sees every day, as a new beginning, a new world, a new experience and much more. He would approach every project with an unmatched vigor and courage as if his entire life depended on it. Of a truth which many has come to discover about Ugwuanyi – political leadership did not happen to him, he happened to it. When one does what he or she is prepared for or what is absolutely one’s passion, the outcome is remarkably different.
Although every leader is unique in so many ways that it will be difficult to compare two leaders even in contemporary time without appearing somewhat biased and sentimental, yet it could be safe to situate Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the Gburu-Gburu of Enugu State in a special class yet unmatched since the return to the democratic rule in 1999 in Enugu State. Everyone who had closely worked with him for a relatively long period of time, always call him a workaholic.
As one who has passion for his assigned roles as the Chief Executive Officer of a state, Ugwuanyi wakes up everyday with the same zeal to work round the clock. He has no free or off duty period. While his mates are busy politicking for the 2023 general elections, he refused to be distracted while he vowed to continue working till his last day in the office which is May 29, 2023. As you read this, Gov. Ugwuanyi is already in the field with the state construction workers and their working tools in the hinterlands of Nsukka, Udi and Nkanu zones.
His unfettered resolve to open up rural areas and ease the social pressures on city centres caused by rural-urban drift has been the most laudable of all his administration’s policies and programs. Enugu State in it’s entirety has therefore blossomed and luxuriated in the balm of his good governance objectives.
It is however instructive to note that in spite of the efforts of Ugwuanyi’s administration to leave outstanding legacies for Ndi Enugu, he appears to be a Media shy personality. At best, what the many volunteer and appointed media aides of the governor have done is to document for posterity these milestones without infusing so much frenzy associated with such leaders in office.
Without much ado, governor Ugwuanyi performs his assignments without rolling out the whole gamut of media war chest to orchestrate his performances in office. Matter of fact, Gov. Ugwuanyi is not your everyday politician who glory in praise trumpets and dancing cymbals. His only satisfaction draws from delivering on the electoral mandate of Ndi Enugu.
As you read this, massive road projects are ongoing with deadline mandates in Ekoi Iheaka, and Ibagwa villages of Igbo Eze South LGAs, as he simultaneously flagged off the projects recently in the affected communities. The construction of 3km Eke-Likke Iheaka Junction-Amaga Uwani-Ekoi Iheaka Ihuma Owerri-Iheakpu-awka Road and 3km Ibagwa-Itchi Road in Igbo-Eze South, is almost completed.
The people’s Governor remains focused and undaunted in opening up the rural areas for development and socio-economic activities in keeping with his rural development policy which is pivotal, novel and unprecedented in the annals of the state, in spite of the nation’s economic challenges.
Each time Ndi Enugu acclaim that “Enugu is in the hand of God,” let Nigerians understand that they meant every word of it. The uniqueness of Ugwuanyi’s strides is that he takes up projects that past regimes were scared to dare. He gives hope to rural dwellers who had given up hope and felt abandoned. To the dejected people of these areas, the road projects announced a new hope of liberation, giving them sense of belonging, in a brand new Enugu order birthed by the governor.
Few months ago, over 260 young farmers who left Enugu for Keffi, Nasarawa State, for training at CSS Global Farms, under the sponsorship of the administration, returned safely to the state, thanking Gov. Ugwuanyi for rebranding and enhancing their skills in the agricultural value chain.
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There is no development like human capital development, and His Excellency is a specialist in the art. He has empowered more Enugu indigenes than any previous regime before him. This is what stands him out in the crowd.
The joy however, is that after these eight years of transforming the state, he has confirmed his disposition to the call by his kinsmen — the good people of Enugu North senatorial zone to continue his innovative policies for them as their senator come 2023. His unanimous victory at the primaries, was a statement of intent by Nsukka people that the governor was their best choice for effective representation at the red Chambers.
A new horizon is opening for Ndi Enugu North senatorial district, with the promise Ugwuanyi’s ascension to the national assembly.
His records and antecedents are ahead of him, paving the way and demotivating the oppositions. These oppositions, handicapped and naive as they were, are merely fulfilling the verdict of the 20th century Canadian-American economist, John Ken that “the modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
What Nsukka needs is a generous senator, a selfless lover of the people’s welfare, a man who knows and leads the way to quality representative democracy. His Excellency ticks all these boxes.
Wherever Gov. Ugwuanyi — the giant Iroko tree stands, every rival shrub looks like a weed.
Enugu is in the hand of God… and Tomorrow is here! God bless Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, and may He raise more of his kind for Enugu North senatorial zone.
© Jack Solo Support Group for Gburugburu 2023
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