Nwachukwu Leads, As APGA Releases Names of Cleared Senatorial Aspirants

By Izunna Okafor, Awka

Chief Emmanuel Chibuzor Nwachukwu, the frontline senatorial aspirant for the Anambra South Senatorial Zone in the forthcoming 2023 general election has topped and taken the lead in list of the successfully screened and cleared senatorial aspirants vying under the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in the Zone.

Released few days ago, the list, which contains names of three other aspirants, excellently coincides with and reflects the true meaning of the Igbo name of the lead aspirant, Nwachukwu, whose Igbo name is Chibuzor.

Congratulating and rejoicing with him, Chief Nwachukwu's teeming supporters also optimistically envisioned that as a prophecy and true reflection of what the results of the party's primary election in zone will be, as Ndị Anambra are in dire need of someone like Nwachukwu for quality representation and total transformation of the zone.

Recall that Nwachukwu, whose mantra is Ọganiru Anambra South had pledged to make a difference, give people of the zone a quality representation and authentic voice at the Senate, if elected to be their Senator come 2023.

Popularly known as Ọnọdugo, Chief Nwachukwu in a recent interview with newsmen, noted that the zone needs a change in the status quo, as well as someone with fresh ideas, as the old ideas have not served the zone well.

According to him, every good representative should know what the yearnings and the desires of the people are, and what keeps them awake at night, in order to represent them with their true voice.

He also explained that he has served the people, both at the grassroot level and at the highest level of corporate leadership, which, according to him, is one of the things that differentiate him from his rivals.

He said: “I have the pedigree, I have the knowledge, I have the exposure. I have the experience, though not in the chamber; but my worldview is completely ultra. That is why I want to get involved. 

“I'm in the race to make a difference. I'm coming with new ideas. The old ideas have not served our people; you know that; everybody knows that. So, we can't keep sending this people back. That's the simple truth, if we hope for a difference.

On what differentiates him from other aspirants, he said: “Without being immodest, I have served at the highest level of corporate leadership; I have served as the President General of a large town like Ukpor, a town with six wards in Nnewi South. So, I can claim more than any other, that I know the yearnings of the people, I know how to solve them, and I know how to put policies together that will impact the people. I know the needs of the people more than them.

“More than any thing else, I am not an Entrepreneur; I'm not a ‘Boss’ in the real sense of it. I have always served the people —from umunna level up to town level, up to local government level, and so on. So, this alone is a good distinguishing factor between me and some of the people I'm running with. 

“You should know that, to represent people well, you have to know them, their yearnings, what they are thinking, what their desires are, what keeps them awake at night, and so on; so that when you represent them, you represent them with their true voice. That is what I mean by authentic representation —authentic voice —because you'll actually be speaking for them. And that is one of the things I'm assuring the good people of Anambra South.”

Ọnọdugo further expressed optimism that the party, APGA will give every contestant a level playing group during the primary election, coming up this month.

“So, I'm very optimistic that the readable people within the party will do the right thing in choosing their flag bearer for the senatorial race of the Anambra South senatorial zone,” he added.