THE FELLOW FROM ADGOZO TAKES HIS PLACE AMONG INDUSTRY FELLOWS

From Joe Anatune

Today, Hon Chike Emmanuel Anyaonu will attain the pinnacle of marketing communications practice in Nigeria as he is conferred with The Fellowship of the industry by The Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON). 

Chike better known as I win, You win is an embodiment of so many things. He is an astute politician and a rugged entrepreneur but advertising remains his forte. Over the years, he nurtured his Adgozo outdoor advertising Agency which he founded in Onitsha to become a national player with additional offices in Lagos and Abuja. Significant is the pool of talents who have passed under his tutelage and who have also become industry icons like him. Above all, Chike is a humanist, a catalyst , a very dependable ally and a jolly good fellow.

We congratulate him and share in his joy as he joins other industry Greats to be so honoured.

Joe C Anatune.

THE FELLOW FROM ADGOZO TAKES HIS PLACE AMONG INDUSTRY FELLOWS

From Joe Anatune

Today, Hon Chike Emmanuel Anyaonu will attain the pinnacle of marketing communications practice in Nigeria as he is conferred with The Fellowship of the industry by The Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON). 

Chike better known as I win, You win is an embodiment of so many things. He is an astute politician and a rugged entrepreneur but advertising remains his forte. Over the years, he nurtured his Adgozo outdoor advertising Agency which he founded in Onitsha to become a national player with additional offices in Lagos and Abuja. Significant is the pool of talents who have passed under his tutelage and who have also become industry icons like him. Above all, Chike is a humanist, a catalyst , a very dependable ally and a jolly good fellow.

We congratulate him and share in his joy as he joins other industry Greats to be so honoured.

Joe C Anatune.

SOLUDO'S TRANSFORMATIONAL REGIME: WHAT ADVISERS MUST KNOW

SOLUDO'S TRANSFORMATIONAL REGIME: WHAT ADVISERS MUST KNOW

By Okey Emmanuel

Recently, I was driving on the street of Lagos with my Google Voice Road Guide on. It just occurred to me that most times when Google would ask me to turn left or right I intentionally disregard its advice. 

True, the Google guide is always right but for one reason or the other I chose not to obey it - not because I wanted to be stubborn or arrogant but because there are things I know that my wonderful, impeccable adviser/guide did not know. 

But one thing that surprises me is that this great expert on road network does not take offense, grumble or even protest and, perhaps, threaten to boycott its role after I have disobeyed it. Rather, it goes on and on in its responsibility. Google simply understands that its role is advisory and not command. 

This is one lesson that experts in advisory must know especially the enthusiastic professionals who are poised to advise Prof. Soludo. Of course the governor-elect has given an open invitation to all meaning Ndi Anambra and beyond to bring their expertise to assist in the enormous job of transforming Anambra - a task he has sworn to undertake. In the words of Mr Joe Anatune, Soludo's Chief Media aid, "Ndi Anambra are welcome to partner with the new administration using their time, talent and treasure".

It is interesting to note that so many Anambra professionals are showing interest in heeding to this call but one thing is certain - not all the advice administered must see the light of the day. All will end at the table of His Excellency whose job it is to decipher which to accept and which to keep-in-view or trash outrightly. 

Like my Google guide, those whose advice are not accepted should not see the rejection as failure in their expertise but as being overtaken by certain circumstances. For instance, I may have chosen to take left against Google's expert advice perhaps because I need to pick up some cash from my bank on the left street or drop off an invoice in a client's office. These, my adviser would certainly not be privy to. In fact, there could be a number of reasons why my decision runs perpendicular to the expert's advice.

Nonetheless, let's join hands in the building of our dream prosperous Anambra with Prof Cee Cee Soludo as the chief driver.

@okey.ODEWAIWAI.com

SOLUDO'S TRANSITION TEAM: SIGN POST OF NEW ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE IN THE SOUTH EAST - by Okey Emmanuel

SOLUDO'S TRANSITION TEAM: SIGN POST OF NEW ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE IN THE SOUTH EAST - by Okey Emmanuel

One thing that always stands out in every vision-minded decision is the absence mediocrity of the mind. 

The erudite scholar and Scientist, Albert Einstein puts it more aptly, "Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinion courageously and honestly".

Obviously, the widely publicized Transition Team of Anambra Governor elect, Professor Chukwuma Soludo - billed to take off on 20th January 2022 - is a clear signpost of a man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices. Expectedly, mediocres in Nigeria's economic and political spectrum are already viewing this courageous decision as an avalanche breach of convention.

Yes, the economic maestro has gone out of convention to include some members of his 80 man transition committee from outside his state and political party. Mouths are already 'wagging' that Prof Soludo has abandoned some party faithfuls who assisted him in winning the election and had gone ahead to include some elements from opposition party, and even persons outside the state. To them, this unconventional.

But no one has faulted him on the quality and calibre of persons that make up this crack team. From the chair of the team, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili, down the list, one can see a conglomeration of technocrats and great achievers who have made indelible marks globally in their professional callings. Evidently, it is a team of distinguished  personalities whom Soludo needs to pave a roadmap with which he, like the great physicist - Galileo Galilei - will gain "a place to stand, to stop the sun and move the earth" for a new Anambra.

Indeed, the new economic renaissance which the erudite economist promises Ndi Anambra requires the stopping of the sun to move the earth. Yes, it's time to breach some conventions if the smart mega city promised Ndi Anambra must be achieved.

Going by the composition of Soludo's  transition team, one can see brilliant rays of the revolutionary moves required to transit the state from the norms to the extraordinary. 

You cannot have the gathering of the likes of Dr Oby Ezekwesili, a world bank product and political activist cum disciplinarian,  Prof Pat Utomi, a globally acclaimed political economist, Chief Osita Chidioka, and array of other public titans drawn from the academia, industry, business, politics and public administration, without giving the governor elect a sound footing to take off on his blueprint for transforming Anambra. In fact, Ezekwesili summarily put it in her acceptance letter, "I have accepted and will teamwork with my distinguished colleagues to help achieve his transition goals and  competent governance". 

Anambra cannot match the Dubai's of this world with an aggregation of political jobbers around the governor-elect especially on assignments that require professionalism. 

That's not to say that the politicians and other supporters shall be totally abandoned by the incoming governor, but like our people would say in local parlance, ekele órú  eke (there's division of labour).

@okey.ODEWAIWAI.com

SOLUDO'S TAKE-OFF: A CRACK TEAM KICK-STARTS ANAMBRA'S TRANSITION TO SMART MEGA CITY - by Okey Emmanuel

SOLUDO'S TAKE-OFF: A CRACK TEAM KICK-STARTS ANAMBRA'S TRANSITION TO SMART MEGA CITY

By Okey Emmanuel

The journey to the much awaited smart mega city promised to Ndi Anambra by Prof Soludo, the Anambra Governor elect, shall be taking off with the inauguration of a transition committee to be chaired by Dr Oby Ezekwesiri.

In a media release signed by Mr Joe Anatune - a member of the committee and the Media Assistant to the Anambra Gov Elect, Chukwuma Soludo Secretariat - the committee shall be inaugurated on Wednesday, January 20, 2022.

The 80-man committee comprising of great and successful men of "timber and caliber" from various fields of life cuts across party lines and state of origin. No doubt, the committee is all encompassing.

The release added that the committee members shall be working with other team members that shall be nominated by the Anambra State government.

Reacting to her appointment as the chair of the committee in her verified Twitter handle, Ezekwesili said  "Soludo, wants a solid groundwork for his governance and has asked me to chair his transition committee. I have accepted and  will teamwork with my distinguished colleagues to help achieve his transition goals and competent governance."

Also conspicuous in the list are Prof Pat Utomi who hails from Delta State and Chief Osita Chidioka who is a PDP chieftain, among other prominent people from Anambra State. Oby Ezekwesili herself, popularly known as Madan 'Due Process,' is also not from the same political party with Soludo.

From this crack team, there is no doubt that Prof Soludo is poised to actualise his promise of a smart mega city for Anambra state.

@okey.ODEWAIWAI.com

SOLUDO'S TAKE-OFF: A CRACK TEAM KICK-STARTS ANAMBRA'S TRANSITION TO SMART MEGA CITY - by Okey Emmanuel

SOLUDO'S TAKE-OFF: A CRACK TEAM KICK-STARTS ANAMBRA'S TRANSITION TO SMART MEGA CITY

By Okey Emmanuel

The journey to the much awaited smart mega city promised to Ndi Anambra by Prof Soludo, the Anambra Governor elect, shall be taking off with the inauguration of a transition committee to be chaired by Dr Oby Ezekwesiri.

In a media release signed by Mr Joe Anatune - a member of the committee and the Media Assistant to the Anambra Gov Elect, Chukwuma Soludo Secretariat - the committee shall be inaugurated on January 20, 2022.

The 80-man committee comprising of great and successful men of "timber and caliber" from various fields of life cuts across party lines and state of origin. No doubt, the committee is all encompassing.

The release added that the committee members shall be working with other team members that shall be nominated by the Anambra State government.

Reacting to her appointment as the chair of the committee in her verified Twitter handle, Ezekwesili said  "Soludo, wants a solid groundwork for his governance and has asked me to chair his transition committee. I have accepted and  will teamwork with my distinguished colleagues to help achieve his transition goals and competent governance."

Also conspicuous in the list are Prof Pat Utomi who hails from Delta State and Chief Osita Chidioka who is a PDP chieftain, among other prominent people from Anambra State. Oby Ezekwesili herself, popularly known as Madan 'Due Process,' is also not from the same political party with Soludo.

From this crack team, there is no doubt that Prof Soludo is poised to actualise his promise of a smart mega city for Anambra state.

okey.ODEWAIWAI.com

ANAMBRA'S JOURNEY TO SMART MEGACITY - By Okey Emmanuel

SOLUDO'S TAKE-OFF: A CRACK KICK-STARTS ANAMBRA'S TRANSITION TO SMART MEGA CITY

By Okey Emmanuel

The journey to the much awaited smart mega city promised to Ndi Anambra by Prof Soludo, the Anambra Governor elect, shall be taking off with the inauguration of a transition committee to be chaired by Dr Oby Ezekwesiri.

In a media release signed by Mr Joe Anatune - a member of the committee and the Media Assistant to the Anambra Gov Elect, Chukwuma Soludo Secretariat - the committee shall be inaugurated on February 20, 2022.

The 80-man committee comprises of great and successful men of "timber and caliber" from various fields of

life cuts across party lines and state of origin. No doubt, the committee is all encompassing.

The release added that the committee members shall be working with other team members that shall be nominated by the Anambra State government.

Reacting to her appointment as the chair of the committee in her verified Twitter handle, Ezekwesili said  "Soludo, wants a solid groundwork for his governance and has asked me to chair his transition committee. I have accepted and  will teamwork with my distinguished colleagues to help achieve his transition goals and competent governance."

Also conspicuous in the list are Prof Pat Utomi who hails from Delta State and Chief Osita Chidioka who is a PDP chieftain. Oby Ezekwesili herself, popularly known as Madan 'Due Process' is also not from the same political party with Soludo.

From this crack team, there is no doubt that Prof Soludo is poised to actualise his promise of a smart mega city for Anambra state.

_@okey.ODEWAIWAI.com_

ANAMBRA'S DESTINY WITH MARCH : WAITING FOR "SOLUDO'S ICONIC TOWER"

ANAMBRA'S DESTINY WITH MARCH: WAITING FOR SOLUDO'S "ICONIC TOWER"

By Okey Emmanuel

Anambra's unique date with the month of March is strikingly historic. Coincidentally, historians tell us that the month of March was once the first month of the year in the old Roman calendar. Interestingly, too, March has played a number of significant roles in the economic evolution of mankind.

In March 1889, the France's iconic Eiffel Tower was opened. The world was at awe as the then tallest human structure tore through the sky like a galaxy. According to historyextra.com "The tower was an instant hit: illuminated every night by gas lamps, it dominated not just the Exposition, but Paris itself... In the first week alone, almost 30,000 people from all over the world climbed to the top – a sign of how completely it had caught the world’s imagination."

Like the historic luminous Paris tower that brought France to the focus of the world in March 1889, expectations are fever high that March 2022 would mark a turning point in Anambra's march to global reckoning as Prof Soludo takes the mantle of leadership from the incumbent governor.

Ndi Anambra, and indeed the world at large, believe that the economic revolution maestro  has the magic wand to transform the state to become a template of a developed economy within an economically wobbling nation. 

Not surprisingly, the people have started reeling out areas of concern and immediate attention. The list is already staggeringly too long that one wonders where the hit ex-CBN governor would start.

Report had it that at the initial stage of developing and constructing the iconic Eiffel tower, there were so many complaints and agitations against the project - an issue described by writers as "Eiffel Towers' troubled birth". But the then French leader, Gustave Eiffel, insisted on  throwing France to the world through the project. In fact, most of the French intellectual establishment hated the idea. Here are two most scornful phrases some used in writing off the idea: "useless and monstrous';  and “hateful column of bolted sheet metal”.  It was said that about 300 celebrated French writers and artists ganged up against the project and signed a written petition to discredit it. However, Eiffel defeated them in their game and shut up their mouth when the historic tower finally emerged in praise.

Of course, people would always call for change but would on the other hand rise against the change. I would not expect less when Prof Soludo comes up. But just as the undeterred but later celebrated bridge-maker, Gustave Eiffel, was focused on giving his nation the art of modern engineering, the Soludo I know would not be distracted in giving Ndi Anambra a modern economy which, in his campaign manifesto, was described as a smart megacity.

One thing is sure, Soludo would give Ndi  Anambra an " iconic tower" they would be happy with and proud of. 

The march will start in March. 

_@okey.ODEWAIWAI.com_