Jonathan 2015: Obiano’s wife begs Nnewi people

To ensure that every segment of the state gets a positive impact of the administration of her husband, Chief (Mrs) Ebele Willie Obiano began a tour of all the 21 local government areas of Anambra State with the aim of empowering the less priviledged in them. 
Recently, it was the turn of Nnewi North council, where the first lady stormed the country home of the Nnewi North Local Government Area sole administrator, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Jnr) with the support of the wife of the sole administrator, Mrs Valerie Odumegwu-Ojukwu, to empower over 300 less priviledged comprising women, children, aged and the physically challenged.
Mrs Obiano said that the thrust of her visit was to thank the Nnewi people for voting  the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) into power in the last governorship election in the state, reassuring them that all their campaign promises must be fulfilled.
She said that Nnewi was blessed with wealth, filled with industrial giants and heavy weights in commerce and industry, promising that the Obiano administration would assist to develop the industrial commumity.
She used the occasion to campaign vigorously for President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 re-election which she argued would benefit the Igbo for being a product of the former Eastern Region.
“My husband supports President Jonathan for second tenure.Our government supports him. Jonathan is one of us. So, we have a justifiable reason to support him,” Mrs Obiano argued.
Welcoming the first lady, the Chairperson of the Nnewi North Council Area, Mrs Odumegwu-Ojukwu said the council tour had given the wife of the governor the opportunity to go round Anambra State to touch lives positively in line with Governor Obiano’s policy thrust.
She lauded the gender affirmation of Obiano who she said had about 45 women in his administration.
She also thanked the governor for awarding new road contracts within Nnewi community.
Mrs Ojukwu said her husband had set up old people’s home in Nnewi to demonstrate his concern for the less priviledged and had gone further to employ one physically challenged person as one of his special advisers.
She said that the administration in Nnewi Nnorth Council Area strongly supported the state government programme on health, including in the area of provision of mosquito nets, immunization of children and sensitization on Ebola Virus Disease.
She said the council was the first to pay and collect 20 cartons of breast cancer kit from the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Awka.
Mrs Ojukwu appealed to Governor Obiano to build a general hospital in Nnewi “to help reduce exorbitant hospital bills”, equip skill acquisition centre in Nnewi for the less priviledged to avail themselves of the opportunity to acquire skills, among other things.
She together with her husband, presented to Mrs Obiano 100 mobile phones for onward distribution to the rural dwellers, cartons of wine, one cow and some pieces of smoked fish.
Other items distributed to the less privileged during the visit included bags of rice, fertilizer, clothing materials, school bags and cartons of instant noddles.