Anambra 2025: Cease Intimidating My Working-mate, Moghalu Tells Soludo

The Labour Party candidate within the upcoming November 8, 2025 Anambra State governorship election, Chief George Moghalu, has accused the incumbent state governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, of intimidating his feminine running-mate, Mrs Ifeoma Veronica Okaro.

In a press release issued on Sunday by the director of media and publicity of his marketing campaign organisation, George Moghalu/Ify Okaro Marketing campaign Organisation (GMCO), Dr. Ikenna Agu, Muoghalu accused the commissioner for Ladies Affairs, Mrs Ify Obinabo, of sponsoring the “vote of no confidence” handed on her running-mate (Mrs Ifeoma Okaro) as “president-general of the Anambra state Affiliation of City Unions (ASATU) Ladies Wing” on June 5, simply two days after the latter was unveiled as LP’s governorship running-mate on June 2.

Moghalu described the motion towards his running-mate as shameful and politically-motivated to intimidate her out of the competition.

He additional charged Soludo, who’s the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to show he was prepared for a free and truthful contest by distancing himself from the motion of the commissioner for Ladies Affairs.

The LP governorship marketing campaign organisation argued that the ASATU ladies chief has the basic proper of freedom of affiliation and even belonging to any political get together her place because the affiliation’s chief however.

It accused Soludo of using his incumbency powers to intimidate opponents out of the governorship contest and warned that such motion can be detrimental to democratic tradition and guaranteeing a free and truthful contest of the governorship election.

The LP’s governorship marketing campaign organisation described the vote of no confidence as “panic-driven political witch-hunt, motivated by the simple rise and rising recognition of the Labour Party’s joint governorship ticket of Chief Dr. George Moghalu and Mrs. Ifeoma Veronica Okaro within the run-up to the November 8, 2025, governorship election.

“We want to state with out equivocation that this motion, pushed by malice, envy, concern, and desperation, is an assault not solely on Mrs. Okaro however on Anambra womanhood, the ideas of democracy, and the liberty of affiliation and political selection.

“{That a} sitting Commissioner for Ladies Affairs—entrusted with the noble obligation of defending and selling the rights and dignity of girls in Anambra—would descend so low as to guide a politically-induced lynch mob towards one of the crucial excellent feminine leaders within the state, exposes the ethical chapter and political collapse inside the APGA-led authorities of Prof. Charles Soludo.

“Allow us to be clear: Mrs. Ifeoma Veronica Okaro, the genuine and undisputed President of ASATU Ladies’s Wing, stays a lady of sterling character, outstanding mind, and irrefutable credibility,” Muoghalu acknowledged.

Noting that Okaro’s selection would increase the get together’s probabilities of profitable the governorship election, the Muoghalu marketing campaign organisation stated that the ASATU ladies chief’s dedication to grassroots empowerment, rural growth, and gender fairness has by no means been doubtful.

“Her management has at all times been primarily based on inclusivity, transparency, and repair. Her solely “offence” was accepting the decision of obligation to serve Ndi Anambra because the working mate of Chief Dr. George Moghalu on the platform of the Labour Party—a call welcomed and celebrated throughout the state by market ladies, lecturers, professionals, conventional rulers, youth, and elder statesmen alike.

“The George Moghalu Marketing campaign Group condemns within the strongest potential phrases this shameful try and malign a noble girl who has given her life in service to her state.

“What Mrs. Ify Obinabo and her political paymasters have executed is a betrayal of Anambra ladies—a gross misuse of public workplace for partisan political vendetta. It is usually a harmful precedent that the workplace of the Commissioner for Ladies Affairs is now being weaponized as a political bulldog towards harmless ladies who refuse to bow to APGA’s whims”, the organisation warned.

Stating that Mrs Obiano lacked any good file of high quality leaders notably for ladies, the LP governorship marketing campaign organisation queried “the place was Mrs. Obinabo when tons of of girls in Anambra North protested over insecurity of their communities? The place was she when ladies merchants in Awka and Onitsha have been being extorted and harassed?

“The place was she when widows and single moms cried out over lack of assist for his or her small companies? But at present, she finds her voice solely to assault a lady of imaginative and prescient and integrity for daring to align with a reputable various to Soludo’s rudderless administration. That alone speaks volumes about the place her loyalty lies—not with the ladies she was appointed to guard, however with a collapsing political order gasping for breath”.

The organisation urged the folks of the state to view the motion towards Mrs Okaro as harmful politics of intimidation, concern, and division.

“Anambra just isn’t a conquered territory, and our ladies will not be pawns on anybody’s political chessboard. We urge our moms, sisters, and daughters to rise in defence of one in all their very own.

“The smear marketing campaign towards Mrs. Okaro is a smear marketing campaign towards each girl who aspires to guide, communicate, and stand tall within the face of oppression.

“To Mrs. Ifeoma Veronica Okaro, we are saying: maintain your head excessive. Your braveness within the face of adversity is inspiring. Your resolve has unsettled the enemies of progress, and that could be a badge of honor. The mud they throw at you’ll not stick; as an alternative, it confirms to Ndi Anambra that you’re a risk to the established order of impunity.

“To the folks of Anambra, we are saying: don’t be distracted. The November 8election is a referendum on competence, imaginative and prescient, humility, and management that serves. The Moghalu-Okaro ticket represents the brand new daybreak Ndi Anambra have yearned for—a ticket constructed not on political godfatherism or propaganda, however on service, sincerity, and sacrifice.

“We guarantee Ndi Anambra that the George Moghalu Marketing campaign Group stays resolute, targeted, and unshaken. No quantity of propaganda, harassment, or character assassination will derail our mission to revive good governance, dignity, and {economic} prosperity to our beloved state.

“Lastly, we warn all political actors, particularly these within the corridors of energy, to desist from additional assaults on our Deputy Governorship candidate. We will now not tolerate the abuse of presidency buildings to suppress opposition voices”, the LP’s governorship marketing campaign organisation warned.