Immediate past Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Mr George Moghalu has declared his intention to run for the governorship position in Anambra State.
Moghalu who spoke with journalists at his home in Nnewi on Saturday morning, said the state governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has failed the people, hence the need to vote him out in next year’s governorship election.
There were speculations that Moghalu will contest the senatorial election to fill the vacancy in Anambra South following the demise of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. But he insisted that he had no such ambition.
He said: “I will be contesting for governor next year and not Senate. I recently resigned from APC, and on October 1, I joined Labour Party.
“Before I did so, I consulted my wife and children, my followers and friends, and I was convinced that Labour Party is the party that aligns with my person and the best suited platform to realize my ambition.
“We need to redeem Anambra fast because Soludo has failed the people. There is dearth of infrastructure in the state, security has collapsed.
“We will not tolerate him further. What he could not do in four years, he will never be able to do in eight years. You don’t need eight years to develop Anambra.”
The former APC chieftain acknowledged that there is a zoning arrangement in the state, and that Anambra South, where he and Soludo hail from, is favoured for the contest.
He vowed to do only one term if he wins the election so as to complete the turn of Anambra South, before the position moves to Anambra Central.
On why he left APC, which is the ruling party at the centre, where the Federal Government may likely work in his favour, he insisted that every politics is local, and that it would be the decision of Anambra people to vote any party, and not for the Federal Government to choose for the people.