Chairman of United Nigeria Airline and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Anambra State, Prof Obiora Okonkwo, in this interview bares his mind on pressing issues especially the urgent need to form a coalition of political parties with the aim of defeating Prof Charles Soludo during the state’s gubernatorial poll later in the year. David-Chyddy Eleke brings excerpts.
We have just seen you declare your intention to run for the position of governor of Anambra State, what informed this decision?
After very wide consultations, as a result of some promptings, I have taken a personal decision to run. I can easily confirm that majority of stakeholders, majority of Anambra people decided that my humble self with my level of qualification and exposure is capable of solving the endemic problems we have in Anambra State, so I am convinced that these invitations to run are genuine and that is why I have made up my mind to call my grassroots campaign…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
