{"id":72636,"date":"2025-08-09T18:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72636"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:27:28","slug":"anambra-by-elections-will-prove-apcs-strength-ukachukwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/09\/anambra-by-elections-will-prove-apcs-strength-ukachukwu\/","title":{"rendered":"Anambra By-Elections Will Prove APC\u2019s Strength -Ukachukwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate in the November 8 Anambra governorship election, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, has declared that next weekend\u2019s by-elections in the state will demonstrate his party\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Awka while receiving leaders of market unions who paid him a courtesy visit and endorsed his candidacy, Ukachukwu said the APC had already taken over Anambra and would use the Anambra South Senatorial and Onitsha North 1 State Constituency by-elections to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will use the August 16 by-elections to show Governor Soludo that Anambra is APC territory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I come from the same zone, and after the polls, we will know who is in charge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will test our strength and make a statement ahead of the November 8 election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukachukwu lamented the plight of traders in the state, accusing Governor Soludo of neglecting their welfare.<\/p>\n<p>He pledged to prioritise traders if elected, promising to establish a loan fund for them with single-digit interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a governor, I will ensure traders can access affordable loans using the state\u2019s name to secure funding, repayable within five years.<\/p>\n<p>When traders grow, government revenue grows, and taxes will be fair and negotiated, not enforced through harassment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also vowed to appoint experienced professionals to key positions, insisting that the Commissioner for Trade and Commerce under his administration would be a trader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrammar does not govern; experience does. I am a trader and proud of it,\u201d Ukachukwu stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba The All Progressives Congress (APC), candidate in the November 8 Anambra governorship election, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu, has declared that next weekend\u2019s by-elections in the state will demonstrate his party\u2019s dominance. Speaking in Awka while receiving leaders of market unions who paid him a courtesy visit and endorsed his candidacy, Ukachukwu said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72638,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72636\/revisions\/72638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}