{"id":155377,"date":"2025-03-16T22:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/compete-with-no-one-but-yourself-bishop-kukah-admonishes-gov-soludo"},"modified":"2025-03-31T18:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T17:25:31","slug":"compete-with-no-one-but-yourself-bishop-kukah-admonishes-gov-soludo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/compete-with-no-one-but-yourself-bishop-kukah-admonishes-gov-soludo","title":{"rendered":"Compete with no one but yourself \u2013 Bishop Kukah admonishes Gov Soludo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Bishop of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Hassan Matthew Kukah has urged the Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo not to compete with anyone but himself.<\/p>\n

Kukah stated this at the thanksgiving mass to mark the three-year anniversary of Soludo being in office at St Patrick\u2019s Catholic Cathedral Awka.<\/p>\n

Kukah further stated that the governance of a people is not for competition but for consolidation noting that successive governors in Anambra contributed to the growth and development of the state in their own way and style.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy that you are consolidating on the achievements of the greatness of your people and the past leaders of the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease I wish to urge you to compete with yourself and don\u2019t try to compete with anyone and don\u2019t try to break other people\u2019s record but break your own record.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnambra State is special because this is a state that has been growing and improving from stage to stage and this is a state where former Governor Chris Ngige said his opponents are campaigning on the roads that he constructed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFormer Governor Peter Obi came and brought Anambra State from the 22nd position to the first position in terms of Education and Former Governor Willie Obiano gave Anambra State a wonderful Airport and today you Charles Soludo have given Anambra State a beautiful and befitting Government House and a Fun City.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll those achievements you have made so far in the past three years without taking loans is commendable and you did not take the loan because you know the consequences of taking loans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some governors that kept taking loans, would continue to take loans and in my state Kaduna I don\u2019t know how many years it would take us to pay back those loans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In his response, Soludo noted that he is not in competition with anyone but that based on the challenges of today there must be improvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Lord Bishop we are not in competition with anyone but what we are doing is to improve on what the past governors have done and not to compete with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember that people asked me to build the Ngige standard of roads and I always joke with Ngige about that by telling him that my own will have more stone base and we forget one of my predecessors Late Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju who built the Alex Ekwueme square, the Anambra State University among others and it is not because schools were closed that we now say that he did nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The governor applauded his predecessors, including Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju, Dr Chris Ngige, Mr Peter Obi and Chief Willie Obiano, for their achievements in office, before he came aboard.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Bishop of the Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Hassan Matthew Kukah has urged the Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo not to compete with anyone but himself. Kukah stated this at the thanksgiving mass to mark the three-year anniversary of Soludo being in office at St Patrick\u2019s Catholic Cathedral Awka. 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