The governorship candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the November 8, 2025 Anambra State election, Chief George Moghalu, has decried the killings in state under the watch of the incumbent governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo.

He also said the state of insecurity has crippled growth of investments and other businesses in the state since the incumbent government was inaugurated about three years ago.

This was disclosed in a statement issued by the director of Media and Publicity of the LP governorship campaign organisation, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, shortly after the inauguration of the organisation in Awka yesterday.

Moghalu’s media team chronicled high profile politically related murders recorded under Soludo administration, as well as what it called ineffective security policies of the government.

According to Ogene, who represents Ogbaru federal constituency in the 10th National Assembly, said “On security, after sleep-walking for three years, the Governor Soludo administration woke up one morning to announce the creation of Udo- Gachi security apparatus.

“Devoid of any form of formal training, the hoopla over it’s creation lasted barely two months, before the state relapsed into a killing field, with banditry, kidnapping and assassination taking full rein. The thugs he hired to fight insecurity have brazenly become terrors to the very people they were supposed to protect, unleashing unimaginable cruelty with their ‘Aka odo’, weapon of impunity, pain and blood.

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“Under his watch, no fewer than two State Assembly members (including Hon. Justice Azuka and another former member, Hon. Okechukwu Okoge, member that represented Aguata 11 Constituency in Anambra state Assembly, who was abducted in 2022, along with his personal aide just as he was entering his house in his Isuofia village in Aguata local government area.They were killed. Okoye’s severed head was later found somewhere at Nnobi where it was dumped.

“The latest incident was the son of the State Woman Leader of Governor Soludo’s party. In fact, the grim crime statistics of Anambra is so horrendous, that no day passes without one incident of kidnapping, banditry or killing in the State”, Moghalu’s governorship media and publicity campaign director further lamented in the statement.

“On investment, of course, since security is ancillary to business growth, the Dr. George Moghalu Organization hereby urges Governor Soludo to release a list of investments that he has attracted to the state over the last three years.

“Concerning emotional intelligence, the condescending manner of our Governor’s public utterances can only be equated with the crude deployment of Ndi Aka Odo (Pestle Wielders)to Anambra streets and parks,” the LP’s governorship media and publicity director lamented further.

Soludo was also chided for referencing those contesting in the governorship election contrary to the state’s governorship zoning principles as “psychiatric patients”, arguing that the governor himself never believed or respected the principle having contested for the state’s number one position for several times earlier in contravention of the same arrangement.

Ogene rather charged Soludo to campaign for his re-election by presenting to the people of the state the score- card of his administration, especially in the key areas he made promises to achieve during the campaigns period, accusing the governor of having failed to deliver on the promises he made.

“The next election will be a referendum on such key issues as, security of lives and property; attraction of investments, foreign and indigenous; emotional intelligence in governance; and equity in government appointments and spread of infrastructure. And I can tell you that Prof. Soludo, who gleefully promised to turn Anambra into Africa Dubai and Taiwan, has failed woefully in all fronts”, the LP’s governorship media and publicity campaign director insisted.

Also included in the campaign team are eminent professionals: Barrister CJ Okoli Akirika, who will lead the Administration Directorate, while the member representing Awka South/Awka North federal constituency, Prof. Oby Orogbu takes charge as Deputy Director in the Contact and Mobilisation unit.

Others include Hon. Uchenna Okafor (Wiper) as Director of Parks and Markets; Prof. Patrick Nky Obi as Director of Support Groups and Persons with Disabilities; Barr. Jude Umennajiego and Dr. Obinna Ngonadi in Operations; and CP Mike Okoli (Rtd) as Director of Security.

The director-general of the campaign organisation, Arch Okey Chukwuogo had shortly after the inauguration of the campaign team expressed satisfaction saying “This council brings together some of Anambra’s best minds in law, media, strategy, grassroots mobilisation and governance. We are assembling not just a campaign team, but a team of transformation.”