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Anmabra: Soludo to set up electoral commission, announce date for LG election

Thursday Jun 13, 2024 8:21 am



By Joshua Chikwado
Awka,   News


Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has assured setting up electoral commission. Soludo gave gave the assurances when he signed 11 bills into law in Awka.

In a statetemnt issued by his press secretary, Christina Aburime, The Governor said: that the law is what ndị Anambra have been waiting for, he announced that it has been finally delivered, pointing out that it will lay the foundation for organising and conducting local government election.

Solido described the law as a promise made and a promise kept, noting that the extant law met by his administration was rickety, saying that the team has taken pains to make a law that is in tune with the times.



Soludo  said: 

"We will subsequently set up the electoral commission. When they are done, they will announce the date and time for the election.

"We have not had local government election in more than ten years. The infrastructure and basic institutions will be strengthened to have a credible election.

"I'm excited that we are moving forward to have this foundation. We have been making sure to reform the local government system to make it viable for new administrations.

"When we came in, we were ready to move on, but we met issues including over 14 billion naira gratuity arrears, insecurity, infrastructure decay, financial crisis, among others, but we are getting better by the day"; Governor Soludo concluded.

Joshua Chikwado is on Industrial Training, and a student of Mass Communication, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Nigeria 

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