By Legislation Mefor
Whereas Ndi Anambra have been looking for certificates of some candidates within the Anambra guber election in a haystack, within the far-flung United States, the world was celebrating Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, as an distinctive chief of world acclaim. The awards maintain coming – from all of the cardinal factors.
Anambra State Governor, Prof. Soludo, is the cynosure of all of the spotlights beaming on excellence. It’s within the scheme of Soludo’s monitor of high-octane achievements that he has simply gained the coveted African Governor of the 12 months Award in New York. He capped all of it up with two different awards in America.
It was a case of triple honours for the quintessential achiever: the African Governor of the 12 months Award, the Public Service Excellence Award, and Particular Recognition/Commendation by the Home of Representatives of the State of South Carolina in the USA.
Governor Soludo obtained the 2025 African Governor of the 12 months Award and the African Public Service Excellence Award on the 2025 World Energy Discussion board held on the sidelines of the eightieth Session of the United Nations Basic Meeting (UNGA) in New York.
Then the South Carolina Home of Representatives additionally gave him a certificates of particular recognition/commendation, applauding his distinguished profession as Professor of Economics, Financial Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, Governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) and Governor of Anambra State, thus extolling his pivotal position in elevating Nigeria to the standing of an African monetary powerhouse.
A world occasion, the ceremony attracted an array of high-profile personalities, notably: former Tanzanian President, Dr. Jakaya Kikwete, Prime Minister Philip Davis of the Bahamas, President Sylvanie Burton of the Dominican Republic, former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister Dr. Judith Suminwa Tuluka of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, African Improvement Financial institution Secretary-Basic, Prof. Vincent O. Nmehielle, and the Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, and many others.
Governor Soludo rounded up the august ceremonies because the keynote speaker on the Energy Discussion board/Worldwide Discussion board on Africa-Caribbean Management, dwelling on the subject: “Africa Unleashed: Navigating the Disruptions, Enhancing Alternatives—the Anambra State Instance.”
Soludo and worldwide awards are the perfect of friends. Remarkably, he was the winner of the World and African Central Financial institution Governor of the 12 months in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by completely different worldwide media establishments, together with The Banker Journal printed by the Monetary Occasions (FT) of London, Euromoney, and Annual Conferences Day by day.
Soludo’s lifetime of sterling accomplishments belongs to a guru who can’t be apologetic for excellence. He was the pioneer senior prefect of his secondary college, the place he handed out, first within the class, with distinction. He then graduated with a first-class diploma in Economics on the College of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), nonetheless first within the class. He adopted up as first within the class together with his grasp’s and PhD. Being the perfect scholar in any respect three ranges of his college research bears the hallmark of an genuine genius and distinctive chief.
He excelled in his alma mater, UNN, as a lecturer and far sought-after professor, serving as a visiting scholar on the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF), the College of Cambridge, the Brookings Establishment, the College of Warwick, and the College of Oxford. He distinguished himself as a guide to the World Financial institution, the United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Financial Fee for Africa.
It was his inbuilt knack for excellence that Soludo took into public service because the chief financial adviser to President Obasanjo. When he was appointed the Governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria in June, 2004, Soludo struck with an unprecedented revolution. He revved with unusual braveness to insist that the struggling 89 banks then present in Nigeria be decreased to 25 international banking establishments that might compete on the world stage. The banking consolidation and reform comprehensively addressed the capital base, digitisation, mortgage capability, dangers, international notion of the banks, and many others.
Earlier than consolidation, all the banks in existence in Nigeria put collectively couldn’t match one South African financial institution. After the Soludo consolidation, Nigerian banks turned in a position to go international. The banks opened up offshore branches, thus changing into true international gamers within the monetary world. New York, Paris, London, and varied capitals of African international locations now rely Nigerian banks and bankers among the many prime gamers, due to the Soludo banking revolution, which after all got here with a private worth, “as per 19 written threats to me and my household, together with bodily assaults”.
The Soludo magic has now been placed on particular gear because the Governor of Anambra State, and the world is taking good notice with awards such because the triple honours in the USA of America. Again residence in Nigeria, the awards for Governor Soludo are too quite a few to say. It simply suffices to say that he gained the 2024 Vanguard Award for Good Governance and the Solar Governor of the 12 months Award.
These awards are all indicators of larger issues to come back for Ndi Anambra in Soludo’s second time period. As Governor Soludo says, within the method of the People, “You haven’t seen something but!”
Given Soludo’s overwhelming groundswell of help, it’s essential to advise his wannabe opponents within the coming November 8 Anambra State gubernatorial election to not waste their sources in a contest they know they can not win. As they are saying, a phrase is sufficient for the clever.
The following large issues to count on with Soludo’s second time period will certainly put to fruition the imaginative and prescient of reworking Anambra State into the veritable African Dubai-Taiwan-Silicon Valley.
*Legislation Mefor, PhD, is Anambra State Commissioner for Data.
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