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Ifeanyi Ubah, senator representing Anambra south, has appealed for the support of the people as he kicks off his 2025 governorship bid. 

Ubah contested the 2021 Anambra governorship election and polled fourth, in a contest won by Chukwuma Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

On January 9, Soludo suspended Damian Ezeani, a traditional ruler of the Neni community, for conferring a chieftaincy title on Ubah “without obtaining the permission of the traditional ruler of the recipient’s community, or the ministry of local government, chieftaincy and community affairs”.

The governor reinstated the suspended monarch a few days later.

Speaking with journalists in Nnewi on Sunday, Ubah described the development as unacceptable, adding that “those who championed it did not know what they did. Thank God it has been reversed without apology to me”.

The senator said if elected governor in the forthcoming election, he would conduct an LGA election within four months, in order to encourage political participation and autonomy at the grassroots.

“All I ask for is one term of four years. I promise to conduct a local government area election within four months of the election,” he said.

“At the moment, I rate governance in Anambra for the past 18 years at 20 percent. I will bring 80 percent content that has never been discussed in governance.

“I have a burning desire to contest the next governorship election in Anambra because this government and those before it have not been able to put the state in the development trajectory that our people desire.

“We need to create support for our commerce, we have to develop our sector to make it a hub for health tourists and accelerate community development through local government elections.

“Voting for people with over-bloated personalities and structure has failed us.

“It is time we vote for people with passion, people with a track record. That is what I represent.

“I am prepared to change the narrative, and that is why my manifesto has remained the same from 2013 till date.”