Who else recalls that during the run-down to the 2015 presidential election, a group of smart thinkers led by the current Renewed Hope president of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, brought a man with a proven 12 million followership base as shown in the presidential polls of 2011 and made him the presidential candidate of the APC.
The candidate, Mohammed Buhari, went on to defeat the then-incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.
In 2023, as "Anambra Decides 2025" draws near, a similar effort was ignited with the blessing of the same astute political thinker to bring about a change of baton in Anambra State; from the stillborn APGA party to the Renewed Hope, APC party, under the candidature of a civilian general whose core followership in the state consists of numerous staunch loyalists cut across different age brackets, driving his political structures, who trust and follow him to any platform he goes. You may recall that a fraction of the above numbers drawn from 7 Local Government Areas in Anambra South have consistently voted him into office on his two Senatorial outings on the platform of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) with over 70,000 votes during each outing.
In the 2025 guber polls, the race is going to be between Ifeanyi Ubah, his multitude of followers/structures versus others (briefcase executives) with scant followers, including the incumbent governor who will be relying solely on already demystified and waned APGA hold on ndi Anambra.
Unfortunately for them, Ikemba 2025 is a collective project that will be delivered by the electorates consisting of both non-politicians and politicians who cut across the different political parties, including APGA, Labour Party, YPP, PDP, and the APC.
Every political pundit in Nigeria, including those in opposition to the project, are all in agreement that once Senator Dr Ifeanyi Ubah, CON, gets the ticket of the APC, it will be all over for the Soludo Government.
Across social media platforms, media influencers working for the Anambra State government have become overnight hype men for a weaker aspirant for the APC party ticket. This is part of the laughable efforts they have embarked upon in order to evade the impending Ikemba tsunami. But their hope will be dashed as is already evident, judging from feelers on the streets.
Ndi Anambra, as it stands today, collectively yearns for the restoration of their state to its pole position under the Midas touch of the Idea Bearer, whose track records in human capital and infrastructural development speak volumes and go before him in testimony even beyond the Southeast region.
An awe-inspiring instance was the state-of-the-art hospitals that he built within 5 months during the COVID-19 pandemic to cushion and combat the then devastating effects of the disease on our people.
A new Anambra is coming where the idle media noisemakers who are barely surviving on government meagre stipends will become gainfully engaged either with making a living in industrial clusters/factories with dormitories or as Anambra youth ambassadors sent out on foreign missions drawing foreign investments to the state; youths championing quarterly trade exhibitions that also showcase our "Made in Anambra state Of Nigeria" goods or as youths whose farm coordinates are known to the state and who benefit from real-time incentives driving the progress and development of Anambra State.
A safe Anambra is coming; where everyone is captured on a database and owns a social security number, where the security of lives and properties reign supreme, where not even an inch of our territories will be allowed under the rule of bandits and non-state actors, and where elected local government chairmen are engaged in fierce competition with one another spreading interlocked roads across the villages and driving development from the grassroots.
The Ikemba Project portends an Anambra State where fast trains and beautiful flyovers adorn the gas-propelled 24-hour electricity state with three mega cities of Awka, Nnewi, and Onitsha alongside 6 other mini cities offering abodes of choice to residents, businessmen, academia, visitors, and tourists alike.
A new era is coming to Anambra State driven by the homegrown Idea Bearer; a human capital development expert whose only driving force is to crest his name in the history books for generations unborn to read and learn lessons in humanity.
Senator Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, CON, is coming.
For when the righteous is in power, the people truly rejoice.
~ Hon. Kamen Chuks O.