Ngige, Obi derailed it
By Nwabueze Okonkwo
All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant George Moghalu has dismissed insinuations of a zoning arrangement for the office of governor saying that consecutive terms by Governors Chris Ngige and Peter Obi distorted it.
Moghalu who spoke in a session with newsmen, however, admitted that an attempt was made towards zoning in 2003 when former Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju from Anambra South was about to be returned for a second term in office, but the formula was disorganized when Dr. Chris Ngige from Anambra Central took over the seat.
He said the formula was further disorganized when Peter Obi from the same Anambra Central with Ngige, took over from Ngige after a whole three years and instead of doing only one term to complete Ngige’s tenure two for Anambra Central and leave the seat for Anambra North in 2010, Obi extended his own tenure till 2014, thereby giving Anambra Central three consecutive tenures (from 2003 to 2014) before handing over to Anambra North in 2014.
Moghalu insisted that from the look of things, no one can say that the formula has been arranged in such a way that after Anambra North it will be the turn of Anambra South, after which it will now be the turn of Anambra Central or vise versa or that each zone whose turn it is at a particular point in time must govern for only one tenure or two before handing over to the next zone.
He stated that it was based on the fact that there is no existing zonal formula on ground and based on the fact that the state is still under-developed and requires a vibrant person to develop it, that he decided to offer himself for the stewardship, adding that if allowed to step in, he would not look back in transforming the state into an enviable status.
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