Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has scored President Goodluck Jonathan high for his performance in 2013 and called on Nigerians to give him total support this year for him to continue to improve . Obi, while answering questions from journalists in Awka yesterday, also wished Nigerians God’s protection in the New Year.

Reeling out areas where Jonathan had done well, Obi singled out the area of power and insisted that in few years, the president’s revolution in that area would become clear to even doubting Thomases.

He stated: “The President has done very well. He is trying to introduce a new order and the so much bickering as we hear are mostly from those resisting the new order; most of them being those that benefited from the old order. Look at the power sector; the President has succeeded in unbundling the area and I bet you, in a few years we shall see the effect and at that time he will surely go down in history as one of the best presidents Nigeria has had.”

Obi said that comparing past governors and the present ones has shown that governance was improving by the day in Nigeria.  He expressed confidence that it would continue to improve.

“In the South-East, for instance, riding from the airport through Enugu, reveal commendable progress. The same with visits to Umuahia and Abakaliki. Even among our neighbours, Delta has changed a lot; Akwa Ibom is no longer the same; in Cross Rivers and Bayelsa, one sees efforts to provide democracy dividends to the people. I knew what Benin and Akure used to be and what they are now,” Obi submitted.   Meanwhile, a community leader in Anambra State, Chief Paulinus Anagboso, has commended Governor Obi for what he described as the best Christmas Anambra State has witnessed in recent times.

Anagboso said that besides absence of any form of crime, no part of the state experienced any form of heavy traffic because of good network of road that Gov. Obi had provided throughout the state.

“Governor Obi is a wonderful man. Without making a noise, without arranging praise singers as some past governors did, he has revolutionalised Anambra State in all sectors: health, education, industry, roads and many more. Unlike in the past when gridlock marred festive periods because of influx of vehicles, today, even if all vehicles in Nigeria were moved to Anambra, there would be no traffic jam due to artery of roads crisscrossing the state,” he said.

Anagboso, who linked APGA’s victory in the last governorship election to the good work of the governor, expressed satisfaction that the New Year celebration was equally peaceful.

Congratulating the state’s Governor-elect, Dr. Willie Obiano, Anagboso advised him to understudy Governor Obi and discover the secrets of his success.

Source: The sun