Index to Nigerian Newspapers

Chukwuma Charles Soludo, Governor-Elect of Anambra State, has done a world of service to perceptions of south-east Nigeria and traditional ideas of politics in the region. His transition committee (ANSG-TC) has been inaugurated to help him calibrate expectations and project a message of constructive identity-building and harnessing of human capacity. Soludo's implicit message is that the destinies of Nd'Igbo are joined inextricably and the job of rebuilding requires all capable hands on deck. Mario Cuomo famously said of successful runs for office that "you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose". Soludo's campaign was forged in blood and his tenure will be defined by crises that defy the constitutional capacities of any governor in Nigeria. These include insecurity and a crisis of human ecology. Soludo's emergence is a tribute to the iron will of Ndi Anambra, who saw off the best efforts of a malevolent political family to render the state hopelessly ante-diluvian.