Chukwudike Ndubeze, Awka
Barely one month after taking over office, Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, has, for the second time, disagreed with his predecessor, Chief Willie Obiano, over notes handed over to him.
The first instance was when Obiano claimed that the state under his administration was not indebted to anybody, but Soludo some days after his inauguration while speaking on Arise TV programme, said he inherited a debt of over N100bn.
Again, Obiano had before the end of of his tenure told journalists in his Aguleri hometown that one of his bequests to Soludo was handing over to him a state with an oil-producing status.
Obiano had said he received approval of the Presidency for Anambra to be recognised as an oil-producing state and had vouched that the state would start receiving payment in that respect from March 13.
However, interacting with a team of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, a World Bank assisted project in Awka, recently, Soludo, represented by his deputy, Mr. Onyekachukwu Ibezim, explained that the state was yet to be fully assented among oil-producing states in the country.
He further stated that the State was cash-strapped under the former governor and that his government is managing the little fund at its disposal.
