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President Bola Tinubu has commended Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra during his 1 time sojourn to the southeast authorities to committee immoderate projects.
Before the commissioning, the politician had endorsed President Tinubu for a 2nd word and announced that his party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), had agreed to marque him their statesmanlike campaigner successful the 2027 election.
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Soludo volition beryllium the 2nd absorption politician who volition endorse the re-election of President Tinubu, a prospective campaigner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful the adjacent election, successful the adjacent statesmanlike poll.
Speaking connected the improvement successful Anambra, beneath is President Tinubu's afloat speech:
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR ON THE OCCASION OF HIS STATE VISIT AND GRAND RECEPTION BY ANAMBRA STATE; AWKA, ANAMBRA STATE, 8TH MAY 2025.
1. Protocols.
Anambra Kwenu! Anambra Kwenu!! Igbo Kwezuenu!!!
2. About 30 months ago, I stood astatine this Venue arsenic Candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In little than 2 years since the presumption of bureau arsenic your president, I americium delighted to beryllium backmost connected a authorities sojourn and to committee immoderate bequest projects by your authorities government. I travel arsenic a person to the large radical of Anambra and the Southeast. I salute your enterprise, your innovation, and your unwavering committedness to progress. Anambra has agelong stood arsenic a beacon of commerce, intellect, and taste spot — a pridefulness not lone to the Southeast but to Nigeria arsenic a whole.
3. My sojourn contiguous bears bold testament to parts of my code during my run here. I callback vividly telling you past that: “Charles Soludo, your son…is inactive my friend. I salute his vision. He is simply a superb man. He has the brain. He is simply a thinker. He knows the way. We volition enactment unneurotic inclusively. When I go the president, Soludo volition beryllium 1 of those advisors who volition bring prosperity backmost to you”. From what I person seen and heard, it is evident that a coagulated instauration is being laid, and Anambra is so connected the rise. Charles Soludo has been my person since 2003, and I can besides corroborate that we are moving unneurotic for a amended Anambra and a amended Nigeria.
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4. I person conscionable commissioned 2 landmark projects—the Solution Fun City and the Government House mini-city arsenic portion of the archetypal steps connected the way towards your audacious imaginativeness of Anambra arsenic African-Dubai-Taiwan-Silicon Valley (ADTS). Together with the monolithic infrastructural translation and quality superior development, these are bold statements of imaginativeness and what enactment tin execute successful specified a abbreviated time. A fewer years ago, Dubai was mostly a desert. Today, it is simply a planetary hub due to the fact that 1 antheral dared to dream. I retrieve erstwhile Soludo wanted to consolidate the Nigerian banks, and galore said it was impossible. It was done, and Nigeria became amended for it. I besides callback erstwhile we dared to tame the Atlantic Ocean, and galore naysayers doubted it. But we made it happen. Anambra has immense potential, and with Soludo, we tin each enactment unneurotic to fast-track the vision.
5. Let maine commend the Government of Anambra State for its proactive efforts successful improving information successful the state. I privation to guarantee you that the Federal Government volition proceed to spouse with the State and the Southeast to unafraid our radical and their future.
6. I person taken superior enactment of the assorted challenges facing the authorities and your petition for assistance and partnership: (MR PRESIDENT MAY, AT HIS DISCRETION, RESPOND TO THE UNDERLISTED SPECIFIC REQUESTS…)
* Anambra is the gully erosion superior of the world, with one-third of the onshore wide nether superior threat. In addition, astir 8 section governments are perpetually nether the menace of yearly flooding. Request for a authorities of exigency connected erosion threatening to submerge galore communities…
* Anambra and the southeast person immense state deposits but are mostly bypassed by the nationalist state maestro plan. Urgent attraction is needed to alteration america to unlock the imaginable of gas-powered powerfulness plants
* Abandoned national roadworthy task that links Anambra done Kogi – this tin go the fastest gateway betwixt Abuja and Anambra/Southeast/South South
* Making the Onitsha River larboard (commissioned successful 1982 by the Shagari Administration) operational. Dredging the Niger to let badges from Onne larboard into the stream larboard is simply a precise debased hanging fruit--- and volition astir beryllium a gyration for our people. Only Asiwaju tin interruption this 43-year-old jinx.
* Anambra wholly bypassed by the Rail masterplan???
* Urgent attraction to galore national roads abandoned successful Anambra for
* respective years. Currently, Anambra has spent astir N150 cardinal connected national roads implicit the past 3 years…
We volition proceed to spouse with your authorities to present shared prosperity to Ndi Anambra and each Nigerians.
7. As your president, it gives maine large pleasance to guarantee you each that the authorities of the federation is beardown and getting stronger by the time nether our Renewed Hope Agenda. We met a near-insolvent nationalist finance, a decades-old monster of unsustainable aggregate subsidies, a chaotic and debilitating forex regime, etc. Like we tamed the Atlantic successful Lagos, galore of these monsters person been wrestled down: petroleum and forex subsidies person been tamed; macroeconomic stableness has returned wrong predictable bounds; taxation reforms are connected the way, etc. These reforms are difficult, yes, but inevitable. Everyone had agelong recognised their imperatives. Courage and our corporate enactment were required to face them to laic a beardown instauration for a much stable, prosperous and inclusive economy. Already, we are seeing renewed capitalist confidence, expanding opportunities, and targeted enactment for tiny businesses, particularly successful the tech and manufacturing sectors, wherever Anambra is already excelling. Agriculture is receiving monolithic attention, and the results are opening to show.
8. We person renegotiated and passed into instrumentality a caller minimum wage arsenic portion of our effort to cushion the effect of these reforms connected the moving class. I americium peculiarly blessed that the Government of Anambra State has afloat implemented the caller minimum wage and I recognize that you are paying supra the National minimum.
9. We are moving to physique captious infrastructure — roads, rail, and powerfulness — and guarantee that each country of Nigeria, including Anambra, feels the interaction of governance that works. The Presidential Power Initiative and the ongoing integer system thrust volition unfastened much doors for the resourceful radical of this State.
**Other reforms worthy highlighting *****
10. We proceed to plead with Nigerians for their patience and understanding. We telephone connected each patriots and progressives to emergence up and proceed to enactment hard each time for the greatness of our beloved country. We person nary different state but Nigeria. We indispensable marque it large arsenic the pridefulness of the achromatic race.
11. Before I conclude, fto maine convey the authorities and the large radical of Anambra State for your lukewarm hospitality. In particular, I consciousness profoundly honoured by the conferment of a Chieftaincy rubric by each the accepted rulers of Anambra State connected behalf of the State. In 2005, the accepted ruler of Awka, HRH Gibson Nwosu (Eze Uzu II) conferred connected maine the rubric of OMENIFE AWKA. To present person ALL the accepted rulers of Anambra conferring different rubric connected maine contiguous is not lone historical but 1 which I volition greatly treasure for the remainder of my life. Thank you to the accepted rulers. Thank you, Ndi Anambra. A batch of my friends are from Anambra State, and I person seen galore of them today. Going forward, we are not conscionable friends: I americium present a bona fide lad of the soil--- 1 of you, your ain son! Maybe my person and your governor, Charles Soludo, should find maine a crippled of onshore for my status home, aft service.
It is good with Anambra State!
It is good with Nigeria!!
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria
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