Anambra 2021: Uba tasks Soludo on Anambra’s debt profile

The Sen. Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation, has tasked former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo, to ascertain total debt currently owed by Anambra Government.
Mr Afam Ogene, Director, Media and Publicity, of the campaign organisation made the demand in a statement made available to journalists on Friday in Awka.
Ogene noted that it was regretful that Soludo was feigning ignorance over the huge indebtedness of Anambra in a recent Channel Television live interview.
“As an irreducible minimum, the Sen. Andy Uba Governorship Campaign Organisation, requests Soludo to undertake the urgent task of finding out the exact and total debt liability of Anambra,” Ogene stated
He said Soludo as APGA candidate would have rendered an invaluable service to a people he so eagerly crave to govern by saying the truth.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a data released by the DMO on Dec. 31, 2020 indicated that Anambra’s domestic debt stood at N59,013 billion as at Sept. 30, 2020.
It further indicated that the state’s external debt profile was $115,886 million as at June, 2020.
Recall that some APGA chieftains had severally in the course of the ongoing governorship campaign mocked the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari of hanging huge debt burden on the country.
“We are however happy that APGA’s antics are already known to the people who are waiting to finally send them packing on Nov. 6″, Ogene stated.
He urged Nigerians especially Anambra people to beware of so-called intellectuals without character and wisdom, saying the combination would be fatal.
Ogene claimed that Soludo decided to cover up Gov. Willie Obiano’s ”obsessive borrowing binge” in exchange for his role in seeking to puppeteer him into political office.
Responding, Mr C-Don Adinuba, Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Enlightenment, however, dismissed the statement as a “mere joke”.
Adinuba who doubles as the Director Media, Prof. Charles Soludo Governorship Campaign Organisation, said though Obiano’s administration cannot claim it did not incur debt, but that large debt owed could be tagged ‘historical debt’. .
He said that no government could operate without debt, saying that what the present administration incurred was minimal.