BY RAYMOND OZOJI, Awka
The senior legislative aide to the senate president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and convener Anambra former political appointees, Hon. Owelle Onyeka Mbaso has said that Sen. Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah will fix Anambra state without speaking big grammar.
Mbaso stated this during an exclusive interview with this journalist Raymond Ozoji.
Mbaso who is currently a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State, described the incumbent governor as someone who talks too much saying both the things he can do and things he can not do.
Mbaso however maintained that Ifeanyi Ubah is coming to fix Anambra state with less talks as he believes actions speak louder than words.
He therefore told this journalist that since 2019 Ubah made an inroad into the Red Chambers, he has become a working senator; doing everything he promised he will do, stressing that Ubah doesn’t believe in long grammar.
He said Anambra State needs a governor that will do the working and not talking too much. That what the state needs is good governance and not grandiloquence.
Mbaso noted that evidence of Ifeanyi Ubah’s uncommon patriotism, generosity and philanthropy to Anambra-South and Anambra State can not be overstressed because according to him, every political ward in all the communities of Anambra-South got solar lights from the senator.
The senate president’s senior legislative aide equally stated that Ubah has tackled insecurity in Anambra-South senatorial zone and that the people of the zone are happy with him because he is working and they are seeing the results.
Mbaso who was a senior special assistant on political matters during ex-governor Willie Obiano’s regime, disclosed further that Ifeanyi Ubah is currently constructing roads in all the communities of Anambra-South, emphasizing that Ifeanyi Ubah is the best senator so far.
Mbaso was equally of the opinion that the advent of Sen. Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah into the All Progressives Congress has rejuvenated as well as reenergized Anambra APC which the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and other opposition parties believed was dead on arrival, adding that APC is now a brand in Anambra state.
The former APGA chieftain maintained that they believe very strongly in the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s ideaology but the incumbent governor, according to him, is playing PDP giving the impression of the more you look, the less you see.
The Nnewi-born astute politician also talked about a forthcoming town hall meeting of former political appointees with Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah slated for 30th June this year.
He told this journalist that in the spirit of continuity, former political appointees have pleaded with the governor to pay them their statutory severance package but the governor, according to him, said no, that he will not pay it.
He said Ifeanyi Ubah heard about the plight of the former political appointees and decided to come to their aid. He also stated that former political appointees of the Obiano administration will endorse Ubah’s gubernatorial ambition and work assiduously for its fruition.
Mbaso said former political appointees will make sure they stopped Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo from getting a second term because he has proven to them that he lacked gratitude as they toiled day and night to make him governor.
Reacting to Mbaso’s claims, press secretary to the governor, Mr. Christian Aburime, said Ifeanyi Ubah knows he is nowhere close to Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo in terms of capacity, leadership and what have you, describing Owelle Onyeka Mbaso and his cronies as rabble-rousers.
Although Aburime said government will not join issues with Ifeanyi Ubah and his messengers of rifts but advised them to go round the 21 Local Government Areas of the state and see what the governor is doing in their respective communities.