Governor Soludo’s revolutionary visions will always get misinterpreted by the adversaries of good reason. No one should sweat over it: Those with short visions can never see beyond the superficial surface. Because their mindsets are broken and badly organized, they will always see through maligned and misinformed pathways.
They will always come in the guise of “the opposition.” But everything they represent is abhorrent, hateful, toxic, and technically defeated. In their devilish supplications to see Soludo’s Anambra State crumble, they’ve refused to let go of mischief and shame. What’s their anger? Soludo shouldn’t be doing so well that 2025 would be an easy ride. That’s the mindset of the wicked political players who desperately want Anambra to lose so they can laugh and play politics with it. Find their corrupt voices where the state is winning, and they’ll all be cold silent.
The recent strategic move by Governor Soludo to allow the people in the grassroots to take charge of leadership in their local domains by giving them the freedom to choose who becomes their local government chiefs has got the so-called “opposition” sleepless. In a move that has never been witnessed in Anambra’s political history, Governor Soludo gave the people and stakeholders from all the twenty-one local government areas in the state the outright power to choose by consensus or elect candidates to head their local council authorities. The widely-publicized directive and procedures were transparent, open, and fair. Everyone’s interest was legitimately accommodated.
Governor Soludo’s plans were simple: The era has come when people should be given true charge of who governs them, the processes that determine who governs them and how they wish to be governed. Being a true democrat and an unconventional politician, Governor Soludo understands the details of pure democracy as was practised and universalized by the early Greeks.
Popular authorities that are transparently hoisted by the people will hardly derail.
The people know who should and who shouldn’t. They own the territory and determine its fate. Govern them right, and they’ll stand up for you. Go against the right hopes, and they’ll impose the power of collective force and get you ousted.
Giving power back to the people has always been one of Governor Soludo’s major political ambitions. Get the strategy right: Giving power back to the people demands extraordinary political energy. The transactional currency for negotiating such a difficult, dicey task is result. Result restores trust. A leader who hasn’t bought trust can not achieve the courage to deregulate power. By entrusting absolute power in the hands of the grassroots people, Governor Soludo is spearheading an unreal task; something that has never been tried by any sitting governor in modern Nigerian politics. With his re-election fast approaching, the governor isn’t scared to take a route that most of his contemporaries would consider uncharted and dangerous. But that’s your quintessential Governor Soludo; the man who sees leadership from the most refined – you may choose to call it weird – perspective.
Governor Soludo is strategically test-runnung his own re-election using this simple calculation. It’s like a toss of trust: If you give to the people, will they give back to you? The Anambra governor has thrown the dividends of good governance to Anambra people. He’s achieved far beyond expectations. From time back, everyone saw Soludo differently from every other person who wanted to occupy the hot Agu Awka Seat. Soludo means higher expectations. Soludo means difference, excellence, and exceptionality. Soludo meant Solution. Charlie Nwa Mgbafor is test-runnung a nascent political chemistry in the New Anambra Project. Those who are bamboozled are struggling to understand the Game.
Strengthening Grassroots Governance And Giving Power Back To the People The Soludo Way
