Posters of Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo with President Bola Tinubu containing inscriptions for the latter’s re-election had been pasted in some strategic places throughout the Alex Ekwueme Sq., Awka, the state capital, venue of the president’s reception.
President Tinubu is visiting the state in keeping with data out there to LEADERSHIP to carry out two features: fee the Emeka Anyaoku Institute for Worldwide Research and Diplomacy on the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, and, fee some legacy initiatives executed by the Soludo administration.
About 48 hours to the president’s go to scheduled on Thursday, the Anambra State authorities had banned any particular person or group from carrying or carrying any political occasion’s flags, emblems and marketing campaign shirts, caps or any such insignia.
The state authorities order issued by the political adviser to the governor on Political Issues, Dr. Alex Obiogbolu, that each one attendees ought to seem in mufti merely reads: “That is to tell you that everyone coming to Dr Alex Ekwueme Sq., Awka, for the reception of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu tomorrow ought to be in MUFTI. Please no person ought to placed on APGA garments or Help {Groups} uniforms.”
In the meantime, one of many posters sighted by LEADERSHIP, pasted in entrance of the pavilion situated on the left-hand aspect inside the primary bowel of the Ekwueme Sq. from the doorway resulting in the VIP pavilion , had the inscription “4+4 =8,” considered one of Soludo’s re-election marketing campaign inscriptions.
Although Tinubu was but to reach on the Ekwueme Sq. as on the time of submitting the report at about 2pm, it was nonetheless, realized that he had already arrived the state, however was holding a personal assembly someplace. However the group he was holding the assembly with and the venue weren’t ascertained, whether or not it was with Governor Soludo and members of his kitchen cupboard or the flag-bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) within the upcoming November 8, 2025 governorship election within the state.
The state was agog over the president’s go to as canopies had been mounted at a number of strategic places within the state, significantly within the well-liked Aroma junction, Awka, crammed with folks, together with members of varied {groups} and associations: youth {groups}, college students unions, city union associations, Ohanaeze, and so on.
Among the distinguished Anambra elders seated on the Ekwueme Sq. ready to obtain the president included Senator Ben Obi (Ojenigbo), Senator Stella Oduah, members representing Ihiala federal constituency, Hon Paschal Agbodike, his Oyi/Ayamelum constituency counterpart, Hon (Mrs) Gwacham, Chief Osita Chidoka; proprietor of Air Peace Airline, Chief Allen Onyema, Bishop of Awka Catholic Diocese, His Grace Paulinus Ezeokafor, Hon Ben Nwankwo, conventional rulers and so on.
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