Anambra 2021: AAC candidate, Nwankwo confident of victory
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki]
Candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State, Dr. Chidozie Nwankwo,said his chances of victory in the poll was brightening daily.
Nwankwo said there had been mass exodus from other political parties to AAC ahead of the governorship election, a development he said, had given him confidence that victory was coming his way.
Briefing journalists in Awka on the activities of his campaign council and his chances ahead of the poll, the governorship hopeful, explained that for weeks he had been receiving grassroots politicians from other political parties into the AAC’s fold.
He said the defectors included politicians from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), All Progressives Congress (APC), and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who had pledged their unflinching support to his candidacy.
He noted that the upsurge of supporters into AAC was not unconnected tomhis wide popularity and acceptability across the nooks and crannies of the state.
He said, his manifestoes which include readiness to ensure a paradigm shift by bring about a new dawn that would restore, renew and rebuild Anambra State, were among the driving factors.
According to him, the good people of Anambra know him much better, know what he has done and what he is capable of doing.
Nwankwo said that he was not just a home boy but in reality, a home boy extraordinary, who had made a huge impact on the people in the State through home grown economic services such as establishment of large scale businesses and providing jobs, and doing philanthropic works.
He disclosed that he had given scholarships to pupils and students, built Churches for all denominations including Catholic, Anglican and Pentecostal, insisting that none of the candidate of other political parties could measure with him in terms of home grown economic services rendered already in the state.
He said, “if I have made huge contributions in building home grown economy as a private businessman, imagine what I can do if I become governor? I will do much better in building a new Anambra State altogether.”