Peter Obi’s FUNDAMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS as GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA STATE (PARTIAL LISTING)

1. Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.

2. For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as United States, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, among others, visited the State. Before my tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.

3. Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.

4. He was recognised as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.

5. The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.

6. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.

7. The State’s ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners – Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.

8. The State also entered into strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 million Dollars in various types of support.

10. Through partnership with the Church in the Health sector, his Government funded the transformation of -:

a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;
b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;
c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;
d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and
e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

11. His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunisation in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.

12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.

18 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built their first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

19. A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged under our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which our government bought more than 1,000 vehicles.

20. Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.

21. To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.

22. His Administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu teaching Hospital, Awka.

23. His Government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).

24. His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion – National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) – to Anambra State.

25. His Government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of our poverty-alleviation strategies.

26 His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha and Nnewi.

27. During his tenure and with his Government’s support, Anambra State became an oil producing State.

28. He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.

29. His government commenced the development of the ‘Three Arms Zone’ comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.

30. By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when we took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.

31. Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinised State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID.

Take sentiments and tribe away, smart and intelligent people knows that this is the caliber of person Nigeria needs to steer the affairs of this country.

People are so damaged that they’ve put religion tribe ahead of their generation and kids/unborn.

I’ve lived abroad and there’s no day I wake up and I don’t curse our leaders. It takes me an average of 2 weeks whenever I arrive in Nigeria to adjust to the system, people literally call me slow or dulling.

It’s also takes me thesame time to adjust whenever I travel abroad to get my head straightened out, they call me crazy. I don’t even know how it happens.

Our dear country is messed up guys. You won’t even know how bad it is until you step out to advanced countries.

My 2 cents.

Peter Obi 's Government Magic And Cheeky Claims
By JON CHIKADIBIE OKAFOAUG https://secure.saharareporters.com/2011/08/28/peter-obi-s-government-magic-and-cheeky-claims


The use of propaganda appears to be an accepted tool of governance; it however becomes foul when government publishes information riddled with pure lies. Mr Peter Obi, the Governor of Anambra State embraces every opportunity to celebrate his government for amongst other government magic [apologies to Fela], constructing hundreds kilometres of roads and being “the least indebted state”.

In this essay, I wish to expose as a cheap falsification, Mr Obi’s claims to being a “performing Governor” and similar self-glorifying hypocrisy.

A document titled “ANAMBRA STATE-OVER 500KMS OF ROADS ASPHALTED”, courtesy of “Federal Government Assessment Team/COREN” contains a list of roads purportedly constructed by the Anambra State Government under Peter Obi. The same document boasts that Anambra State has the best road network in Nigeria; the list will naturally seduce anybody into singing the Governor’s praises because it gives the impression that all the roads in the State will shame the highways of Abuja City.

As an Anambra indigene, I was cautiously excited by this document until I saw contained in this spurious list, roads allegedly constructed in my home town, Amawbia [Ugbo Ogiliga]. My excitement would have peaked when I saw in the list of roads constructed by Mr Obi’s government, St. Peters-Ugwu Tank Amawbia, Ugwu Tank-Amawbia-Nise By-Pass- except that I knew for sure that no such project was ever undertaken by the Government of Anambra State.

Peter Obi is a brand

SuperBold:
Peter Obi 's Government Magic And Cheeky Claims
By JON CHIKADIBIE OKAFOAUG https://secure.saharareporters.com/2011/08/28/peter-obi-s-government-magic-and-cheeky-claims


The use of propaganda appears to be an accepted tool of governance; it however becomes foul when government publishes information riddled with pure lies. Mr Peter Obi, the Governor of Anambra State embraces every opportunity to celebrate his government for amongst other government magic [apologies to Fela], constructing hundreds kilometres of roads and being “the least indebted state”.

In this essay, I wish to expose as a cheap falsification, Mr Obi’s claims to being a “performing Governor” and similar self-glorifying hypocrisy.

A document titled “ANAMBRA STATE-OVER 500KMS OF ROADS ASPHALTED”, courtesy of “Federal Government Assessment Team/COREN” contains a list of roads purportedly constructed by the Anambra State Government under Peter Obi. The same document boasts that Anambra State has the best road network in Nigeria; the list will naturally seduce anybody into singing the Governor’s praises because it gives the impression that all the roads in the State will shame the highways of Abuja City.

As an Anambra indigene, I was cautiously excited by this document until I saw contained in this spurious list, roads allegedly constructed in my home town, Amawbia [Ugbo Ogiliga]. My excitement would have peaked when I saw in the list of roads constructed by Mr Obi’s government, St. Peters-Ugwu Tank Amawbia, Ugwu Tank-Amawbia-Nise By-Pass- except that I knew for sure that no such project was ever undertaken by the Government of Anambra State.

I am not a politician dear superBold, but one thing I am is, very detribalized and very honest. It has helped me a lot in my quest for peace and happiness.

I am from Anambra precisely and if you check very well, on my posts, you’ll find out that in 2015 I supported Buhari because I believed he was what Nigeria needed at that time.i didn’t vote that year though( He failed me).


In 2011 my elder sister and I voted for Buhari actually (jokes on us now)

My point exactly is, you see anambra state ehn, a lot changed when Obi Became governor, as I speak to you now, if you go to my village ehn, the roads are beautiful and the street lights come up every night from 6/6:30pm till the next morning. The amobia you mentioned to Nise down to Nnewi are in great shape from Obi’s era. Don’t be fooled. I was an Ngige fan until Obi did magic that even the blind could see.

I know you’re not Igbo from your previous post, stay away from copy and pastes.

Obi has and always will be my HERO! We need him, you need him, your generation needs him, my generation needs him too.

It’s a selfless service, atleast let it be on record that I tried to reach out to my fellow Nigerians.

uzohcars:
Peter Obi is a brand

The man should be studied in schools.

He is exactly what Nigeria needs.

Peter Obi or everyone goes their separate ways period.

lexxwiz:


I am not a politician dear superBold, but one thing I am is, very detribalized and very honest. It has helped me a lot in my quest for peace and happiness.

I am from Anambra precisely and if you check very well, on my posts, you’ll find out that in 2015 I supported Buhari because I believed he was what Nigeria needed at that time.i didn’t vote that year though( He failed me).


In 2011 my elder sister and I voted for Buhari actually (jokes on us now)

My point exactly is, you see anambra state ehn, a lot changed when Obi Became governor, as I speak to you now, if you go to my village ehn, the roads are beautiful and the street lights come up every night from 6/6:30pm till the next morning. The amobia you mentioned to Nise down to Nnewi are in great shape from Obi’s era. Don’t be fooled. I was an Ngige fan until Obi did magic that even the blind could see.

I know you’re not Igbo from your previous post, stay away from copy and pastes.

Obi has and always will be my HERO! We need him, you need him, your generation needs him, my generation needs him too.

It’s a selfless service, atleast let it be on record that I tried to reach out to my fellow Nigerians.

I'm not a politician too, in fact I'm not for APC nor PDP. @ the bolded I can't help since Anambra is in Nigeria, I can comment on it same way your fellow igbo brothers can comment on other region happenings.

Peter Obi is not my hero. I respect him as a man and thats all. He's as corrupt as any politicians from South East and when I see something not right about him I will let others know. Brothers watching each other back

SuperBold:


I'm not a politician too, in fact I'm not for APC nor PDP. @ the bolded I can't help since Anambra is in Nigeria, I can comment on it same way your fellow igbo brothers can comment on other region happenings.

Peter Obi is not my hero. I respect him as a man and thats all. He's as corrupt as any politicians from South East and when I see something not right about him I will let others know. Brothers watching each other back

Ofcause you have every right to comment on every thread, I just advised you not to copy and paste.

Ofcause every politician is crooked, it’s a dirty practice. But you see Obi? He’s everything a leader should be. I can’t tell you for sure. if he steals or not, that’s for him and his conscience but he will deliver this country 80%

lexxwiz:


Ofcause you have every right to comment on every thread, I just advised you not to copy and paste.

Ofcause every politician is crooked, it’s a dirty practice. But you see Obi? He’s everything a leader should be. I can’t tell you for sure. if he steals or not, that’s for him and his conscience but he will deliver this country 80%

I respect your opinion and the way you put it but Peter Obi is just your average politician. Knows everything when he is seeking power then turn to buffoon when he get there.