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Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by Electorate: 12:14pm On Apr 23
The focus of this thread is a response to the challenge by Reno Omokri aka anonpoet on nairaland, So, read the bolded and judge for yourselves

NAME : Mr. Peter Gregory OBI, (CON)

DATE OF BIRTH : 19th July 1961

PLACE OF BIRTH: Onitsha, Nigeria

NATIONALITY: Nigerian

MARITAL STATUS: Married with two children

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED

· Christ the King College, Onitsha (W.A.S.C.)

. University of Nigeria, Nsukka (B.A. Philosophy)

· Lagos Business School, Nigeria (Chief Executive Program)

· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Mid to Mid Marketing)

· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Changing the Game)

· London School of Economics (Financial Mgmt/Business Policy)

· Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.A. (Marketing Mgmt )

· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Senior Executive Program)

· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Break-Through Program for CEOs)

· Kellogg Graduate School of Management, U.S.A. (Advanced Executive Program)

· Kellogg School of Management U.S.A. (Global Advanced Mgmt Program)

. Oxford University: Said Business School, (Advanced Mgmt& Leadership Program)

. Cambridge University: George Business School (Advanced Leadership Program)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

· Governor, Anambra State of Nigeria (2006-2014)

· Honorary Special Adviser to the President on Finance (till May, 2015)

· Member, Presidential Economic Management Team (till May, 2015)

· Vice-Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (2008-2014)

· Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum (2006-2014)

. Former Chairman: Board of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

· Former Chairman: Fidelity Bank Plc.

· Former Chairman: Guardian Express Mortgage Bank, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Future Views Securities, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Paymaster Nigeria Plc.

· Former Chairman: Next International (Nigeria) Ltd

· Former Director: Guardian Express Bank Plc.

· Former Director: Chams Nigeria Plc.

· Former Director: Emerging Capital Ltd

· Former Director: Card Centre Plc

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS

· Member, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)

· Member, Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers

· Member, British Institute of Directors (IOD)

MEMBERSHIP OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEES

In my capacity as the Governor of Anambra State, I served as a member of:

*Federal Government Committee on Minimum Wage

*Federal Government Committee on Negotiation with Labour on Subsidy

*Federal Government Committee on Mass Transit

*Federal Government Committee on Natural Resource

*National Economic Council Committee on Power Sector Reform

*National Economic Council Committee on Sharing of MDGs Funds

*National Economic Council Committee on Accurate Data on Nigeria’s Oil Import and Export

*Agricultural Transformation Implementation Council

*Sub-Committee on Needs Analysis of Public Universities in Nigeria

*National Economic Council Review Committee on the Power Sector

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

2015: Golden Jubilee Award from Catholic Diocese of Onitsha for outstanding contribution to quality healthcare delivery in St. Charles Borromeo Hospital in particular and Anambra State in general, on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the hospital.

*2014: Nigerian Library Association Golden Merit Award for remarkable improvement of libraries in Anambra State, exemplified by our Government's construction of the Kenneth Dike Digital State Library, remarkable upgrade of the Onitsha Divisional Library, and provision of library facilities in secondary schools across the State.

*2014: Champion Newspaper Most Outstanding Igbo Man of the Decade.

* 2014 The Voice Newspaper (Holand) Achievers Award for Outstanding Example in Leadership and Governance.

*2013: Silver Bird Man of the Year (with Governor BabatundeFashola of Lagos State).

*2012: Business Hallmark Newspaper Man of the Year.

*2012: The Golden Award on Prudence – by the Methodist Church of Nigeria as the Most
Financially Prudent Governor in Nigeria.

* 2012: Leadership and Good Governance Award by The Ezeife Leadership Foundation Award for restoring peace and harmony to Anambra State.

* 2012: Best Performing Governor on Immunization in South-East Nigeria – by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

* 2012: Outstanding Financial Planner and Manager – by the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion for my resourcefulness and creativity in governance.

*2011: Zik Leadership Prize.

*2010: ICT Governor of the Year – by the West Africa ICT Development Award.

*2009: Champion Newspaper Nigeria’s Most Trustworthy Governor Award.

*2009: Thisday Newspaper Most Prudent Governor in Nigeria.

*2007: The Sun Newspaper Man of the Year Award.

**The Nigerian MDGs Office/UNDP Best Governor in the Implementation of the MDGs in Nigeria

INTRODUCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER MAJOR CHANGES IN NIGERIAN POLITICS

*He was the first gubernatorial candidate in Nigeria to legally challenge to its logical conclusion, his governorship electoral victory that was denied him. He won in the Courts and reclaimed his mandate.

*He was the first Governor in Nigeria to legally challenge his wrongful impeachment and was reinstated by the Courts.

*He was the first Governor in Nigeria to seek the interpretation of tenures of Governors when INEC allowed elections to take place in Anambra State when his tenure had not expired; the election already concluded was cancelled and he was allowed to complete his tenure.

*He was the first Governor to serve a 2nd term in both the new and old Anambra State, that is, almost 40 years after creation of the State.

*He was the first Governor, whilst still in Office, to be appointed a Special Adviser to the President.

*He was the first serving Governor to be appointed into the Presidential Economic Management Team.

*He was among the first Governors to be honoured with a National Award in 2011, while still in office.

*Though the only Governor whose political party was in government in only one State, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum twice.

*Though the only non-PDP Governor in the South-East (made up of 5 States), he was elected by the other 4 PDP Governors as their Chairman for 8 years rather than the usual one year.

FUNDAMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA STATE (PARTIAL LISTING)

1. Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.

2. For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as United States, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, among others, visited the State. Before my tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.

3. Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.

4. He was recognised as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.

5. The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.

6. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.

7. The State's ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners - Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.

8. The State also entered into strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 million Dollars in various types of support.

10. Through partnership with the Church in the Health sector, his Government funded the transformation of -:

a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;
b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;
c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;
d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and
e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

11. His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunisation in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.

12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.


18 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built their first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

19. A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged under our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which our government bought more than 1,000 vehicles.

20. Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.

21. To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.

22. His Administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu teaching Hospital, Awka.

23. His Government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).

24. His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion - National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) - to Anambra State.

25. His Government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of our poverty-alleviation strategies.

26 His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha and Nnewi.

27. During his tenure and with his Government's support, Anambra State became an oil producing State.

28. He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.

29. His government commenced the development of the 'Three Arms Zone' comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.

30. By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when we took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.

31. Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinised State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID..

TAKE AWAY:

1. He ran the most secured state in Nigeria during his tenure. Former IGP Abubarkar gave him 5 years accollades of the most secured state back to back for 5 years.

2. The minister of works then gave him the best accolade of a governor that built 800km of road network in 8years

3. Educationally , He met Anambra at 26th position in 2006 and left it at 1st by 2014 when he was leaving.

4. He was the only governor that met the millennium development goal in Nigeria in both education and health. In fact , Milinda and bill gate foundation gave him a personal gift of 1 million dollar for his achievement. Which he dropped in the state account rather than putting in his own private account.


5. He is the only former governor today that does not collect pension, gratuity, land gift and allowances since he left the govt in 2014.

6. When he became SEC chairman under President Jonathan, he told SEC to hold back all his allowance and entitlement as a Board chairman . He left without nothing. He said he does not need them.

When he was chairman of fidelity bank , he was entitled to two brand new cars annually. He told the board. I don't need them. Let me just come for meetings and go home.

You can only be angry with him. You cannot change the facts.

Here's a link to some projects executed and completed by Peter Obi as governor of Anambra State?

https://www.nairaland.com/7313723/some-projects-done-peter-obi

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Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by Electorate: 12:15pm On Apr 23
Reno Omokri have not built any school or given scholarship to students or equipted any school in his entire life yet he feels he has the right to judge.

Imagine someone that cannot help others is blaming another person for not helping enough.

No Nigerian dead or alive have done what Peter Obi has done or is doing as regards education in Nigeria, Reno Omokri lacks common sense that you don't need to build yet another school when you have several ill-equipted schools all over the state, why not fund and equipt these schools like Peter Obi rightfully and wisely did?

Lastly, trust me if Reno Omokri have free $10,000 in his account he wont be jumping up and down seeking donations for his failed "Free Leah Sharibu" SCAM...

https://m.facebook.com/omokrireno/photos/a.111662537405860/193836555855124/

This scammer even printed t-shirts.

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Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by aguluobi: 12:22pm On Apr 23
See them, foolish set of humans being every.
Simple question name a single school Peter Peter Obi built from scratch n commissioned. Who will be reading the foolishness you compiled to fool dull head among yourself name a school you de post essay.

How more precise can a question be. Instead of all this fools lying that Peter Peter Obi built any school simply admit Peter Peter Obi did not have to build news schools bcoa there is no need for it in Anambra.

Then proceed to list schools he upgraded, constructed new buildings etc n list other positives things he did but in the foolishness of trying to be right m glorifying a failure with a success he never accomplished you start listing school that were in existence even before the birth of the Pandora Criminal father.

Nonsense people everywhere.

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Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by seanfer(m): 12:57pm On Apr 23
Just a simple thing to do, present Reno with answer to his challenge and win $10,000.
Instead you people are opening one thread after the other and still no direct answer.

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Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by helinues: 1:09pm On Apr 23
The schools he built from scratch and completed, that's what the challenge is all about .

Make you stop shifting the goal post unnecessarily

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Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by BigkokoRep: 1:28pm On Apr 23
Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Reno Omokri tha can't even buy quality Aba Shoe is the one that's giving $10k USD? Tell him to buy a good shoe first let's see!
Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣



Electorate:
Reno Omokri have not built any school or given scholarship to students or equipted any school in his entire life yet he feels he has the right to judge.

Imagine someone that cannot help others is blaming another person for not helping enough.

No Nigerian dead or alive have done what Peter Obi has done or is doing as regards education in Nigeria, Reno Omokri lacks common sense that you don't need to build yet another school when you have several ill-equipted schools all over the state, why not fund and equipt these schools like Peter Obi rightfully and wisely did?

Lastly, trust me if Reno Omokri have free $10,000 in his account he wont be jumping up and down seeking donations for his failed "Free Leah Sharibu" SCAM...

https://m.facebook.com/omokrireno/photos/a.111662537405860/193836555855124/

This scammer even printed t-shirts.
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by Biodun556(m): 1:34pm On Apr 23
A serious governor should build more schools and renovate old ones at same time

Peter Obi is useless
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by BigkokoRep: 1:39pm On Apr 23
When people talk even that old, jobless nairaland resident go join talk too! Tufiakwaaaa....

Score card of the oldie:
Job: Non
Hand work: Non
Skill level: Largely mentally and emotionally unskilled, also incompetent as reflected by his poor voting patterns (two failures back to back).
Education: Best guess, a drop out, abandons school at teenage age, drinks Agbo and shekpe until Asiwaju swagger team threw him a lifeline selling repugnant candidates.
Monthly income: Sycophancy payment, 30k NGN flat without hope for a rise, cos he's too old, and not used to modern best practices when doing PR.
Philanthropy: Zero, can not even feed himself, not to talk of giving to another person.
Marital status: Never married before, has no kids, single at his old age of 50+.
Competence level: Has IQ lower than a domestic donkey, known to vote/support two failures back to back. Largely unskilled & incompetent.

If you say na Hello, the 50+ year old cargo, na you Sabi!

As promised, na koboko wey them cook with atarodo pepper 🌶️ I go take dey flog you till you get sense take my advice go learn carpentry, and be useful to your sister!
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by chopnaira: 1:43pm On Apr 23
Electorate:
The focus of this thread is a response to the challenge by Reno Omokri aka anonpoet on nairaland, So, read the bolded and judge for yourselves

NAME : Mr. Peter Gregory OBI, (CON)

DATE OF BIRTH : 19th July 1961

PLACE OF BIRTH: Onitsha, Nigeria

NATIONALITY: Nigerian

MARITAL STATUS: Married with two children

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED

· Christ the King College, Onitsha (W.A.S.C.)

. University of Nigeria, Nsukka (B.A. Philosophy)

· Lagos Business School, Nigeria (Chief Executive Program)

· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Mid to Mid Marketing)

· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Changing the Game)

· London School of Economics (Financial Mgmt/Business Policy)

· Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.A. (Marketing Mgmt )

· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Senior Executive Program)

· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Break-Through Program for CEOs)

· Kellogg Graduate School of Management, U.S.A. (Advanced Executive Program)

· Kellogg School of Management U.S.A. (Global Advanced Mgmt Program)

. Oxford University: Said Business School, (Advanced Mgmt& Leadership Program)

. Cambridge University: George Business School (Advanced Leadership Program)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

· Governor, Anambra State of Nigeria (2006-2014)

· Honorary Special Adviser to the President on Finance (till May, 2015)

· Member, Presidential Economic Management Team (till May, 2015)

· Vice-Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (2008-2014)

· Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum (2006-2014)

. Former Chairman: Board of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

· Former Chairman: Fidelity Bank Plc.

· Former Chairman: Guardian Express Mortgage Bank, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Future Views Securities, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Paymaster Nigeria Plc.

· Former Chairman: Next International (Nigeria) Ltd

· Former Director: Guardian Express Bank Plc.

· Former Director: Chams Nigeria Plc.

· Former Director: Emerging Capital Ltd

· Former Director: Card Centre Plc

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS

· Member, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)

· Member, Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers

· Member, British Institute of Directors (IOD)

MEMBERSHIP OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEES

In my capacity as the Governor of Anambra State, I served as a member of:

*Federal Government Committee on Minimum Wage

*Federal Government Committee on Negotiation with Labour on Subsidy

*Federal Government Committee on Mass Transit

*Federal Government Committee on Natural Resource

*National Economic Council Committee on Power Sector Reform

*National Economic Council Committee on Sharing of MDGs Funds

*National Economic Council Committee on Accurate Data on Nigeria’s Oil Import and Export

*Agricultural Transformation Implementation Council

*Sub-Committee on Needs Analysis of Public Universities in Nigeria

*National Economic Council Review Committee on the Power Sector

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

2015: Golden Jubilee Award from Catholic Diocese of Onitsha for outstanding contribution to quality healthcare delivery in St. Charles Borromeo Hospital in particular and Anambra State in general, on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the hospital.

*2014: Nigerian Library Association Golden Merit Award for remarkable improvement of libraries in Anambra State, exemplified by our Government's construction of the Kenneth Dike Digital State Library, remarkable upgrade of the Onitsha Divisional Library, and provision of library facilities in secondary schools across the State.

*2014: Champion Newspaper Most Outstanding Igbo Man of the Decade.

* 2014 The Voice Newspaper (Holand) Achievers Award for Outstanding Example in Leadership and Governance.

*2013: Silver Bird Man of the Year (with Governor BabatundeFashola of Lagos State).

*2012: Business Hallmark Newspaper Man of the Year.

*2012: The Golden Award on Prudence – by the Methodist Church of Nigeria as the Most
Financially Prudent Governor in Nigeria.

* 2012: Leadership and Good Governance Award by The Ezeife Leadership Foundation Award for restoring peace and harmony to Anambra State.

* 2012: Best Performing Governor on Immunization in South-East Nigeria – by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

* 2012: Outstanding Financial Planner and Manager – by the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion for my resourcefulness and creativity in governance.

*2011: Zik Leadership Prize.

*2010: ICT Governor of the Year – by the West Africa ICT Development Award.

*2009: Champion Newspaper Nigeria’s Most Trustworthy Governor Award.

*2009: Thisday Newspaper Most Prudent Governor in Nigeria.

*2007: The Sun Newspaper Man of the Year Award.

**The Nigerian MDGs Office/UNDP Best Governor in the Implementation of the MDGs in Nigeria

INTRODUCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER MAJOR CHANGES IN NIGERIAN POLITICS

*He was the first gubernatorial candidate in Nigeria to legally challenge to its logical conclusion, his governorship electoral victory that was denied him. He won in the Courts and reclaimed his mandate.

*He was the first Governor in Nigeria to legally challenge his wrongful impeachment and was reinstated by the Courts.

*He was the first Governor in Nigeria to seek the interpretation of tenures of Governors when INEC allowed elections to take place in Anambra State when his tenure had not expired; the election already concluded was cancelled and he was allowed to complete his tenure.

*He was the first Governor to serve a 2nd term in both the new and old Anambra State, that is, almost 40 years after creation of the State.

*He was the first Governor, whilst still in Office, to be appointed a Special Adviser to the President.

*He was the first serving Governor to be appointed into the Presidential Economic Management Team.

*He was among the first Governors to be honoured with a National Award in 2011, while still in office.

*Though the only Governor whose political party was in government in only one State, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum twice.

*Though the only non-PDP Governor in the South-East (made up of 5 States), he was elected by the other 4 PDP Governors as their Chairman for 8 years rather than the usual one year.

FUNDAMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA STATE (PARTIAL LISTING)

1. Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.

2. For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as United States, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, among others, visited the State. Before my tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.

3. Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.

4. He was recognised as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.

5. The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.

6. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.

7. The State's ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners - Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.

8. The State also entered into strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 million Dollars in various types of support.

10. Through partnership with the Church in the Health sector, his Government funded the transformation of -:

a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;
b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;
c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;
d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and
e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

11. His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunisation in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.

12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.


18 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built their first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

19. A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged under our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which our government bought more than 1,000 vehicles.

20. Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.

21. To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.

22. His Administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu teaching Hospital, Awka.

23. His Government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).

24. His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion - National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) - to Anambra State.

25. His Government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of our poverty-alleviation strategies.

26 His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha and Nnewi.

27. During his tenure and with his Government's support, Anambra State became an oil producing State.

28. He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.

29. His government commenced the development of the 'Three Arms Zone' comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.

30. By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when we took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.

31. Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinised State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID..

TAKE AWAY:

1. He ran the most secured state in Nigeria during his tenure. Former IGP Abubarkar gave him 5 years accollades of the most secured state back to back for 5 years.

2. The minister of works then gave him the best accolade of a governor that built 800km of road network in 8years

3. Educationally , He met Anambra at 26th position in 2006 and left it at 1st by 2014 when he was leaving.

4. He was the only governor that met the millennium development goal in Nigeria in both education and health. In fact , Milinda and bill gate foundation gave him a personal gift of 1 million dollar for his achievement. Which he dropped in the state account rather than putting in his own private account.


5. He is the only former governor today that does not collect pension, gratuity, land gift and allowances since he left the govt in 2014.

6. When he became SEC chairman under President Jonathan, he told SEC to hold back all his allowance and entitlement as a Board chairman . He left without nothing. He said he does not need them.

When he was chairman of fidelity bank , he was entitled to two brand new cars annually. He told the board. I don't need them. Let me just come for meetings and go home.

You can only be angry with him. You cannot change the facts.

Here's a link to some projects executed and completed by Peter Obi as governor of Anambra State?

https://www.nairaland.com/7313723/some-projects-done-peter-obi
I see you attached picture of Ojukwu university formerly Anambra state university which had been producing graduates before Obi became governor. Continue lying you hear. Igbariam was former college of Agriculture

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Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by Electorate: 1:57pm On Apr 23
chopnaira:

I see you attached picture of Ojukwu university formerly Anambra state university which had been producing graduates before Obi became governor. Continue lying you hear. Igbariam was former college of Agriculture

You just proved you cannot read,
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by chopnaira: 2:02pm On Apr 23
Electorate:


You just proved you cannot read,
You expect me to read that garbage of lies you posted 🤣

I just took one look at the screenshot you of Ojukwu university formerly Anambra state university and formerly Anambra polytechnic and college of agriculture you were trying to pass off as Obi's achievement. Anyway, Reno's challenge is simple enough. No need for the "hot air" you were not asked of. That's how you people fail exams.
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by KillahPriest: 2:06pm On Apr 23
You guys are the ones feeding the monkey and making him relevant but ask yourself; who is Reno and what is his relevance even in Delta State politics or society as a whole talk less of the affairs of a private individual or indeed the entire Nigeria. What is his day job because we obviously can't say it's to antagonize a private individual who has done him no harm 24/7. He is as irrelevant as a mosquito in a jungle yet you people are giving him unnecessary attention. If he was really serious about his life, he would pack his stuff including that masquerade cock shoe he wore with agbada, enter Delta State and pledge loyalty to Ibori, Tompolo, Uduaghan and co so he can be fixed in somewhere instead of constituting nuisance on social media like a teenager
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by Electorate: 2:18pm On Apr 23
seanfer:
Just a simple thing to do, present Reno with answer to his challenge and win $10,000.
Instead you people are opening one thread after the other and still no direct answer.

helinues:
The schools he built from scratch and completed, that's what the challenge is all about .

Make you stop shifting the goal post unnecessarily

aguluobi:
See them, foolish set of humans being every.
Simple question name a single school Peter Peter Obi built from scratch n commissioned. Who will be reading the foolishness you compiled to fool dull head among yourself name a school you de post essay.

How more precise can a question be. Instead of all this fools lying that Peter Peter Obi built any school simply admit Peter Peter Obi did not have to build news schools bcoa there is no need for it in Anambra.

Then proceed to list schools he upgraded, constructed new buildings etc n list other positives things he did but in the foolishness of trying to be right m glorifying a failure with a success he never accomplished you start listing school that were in existence even before the birth of the Pandora Criminal father.

Nonsense people everywhere.

Biodun556:
A serious governor should build more schools and renovate old ones at same time

Peter Obi is useless

12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.


Plus:

3. Educationally , He met Anambra at 26th position in 2006 and left it at 1st by 2014 when he was leaving.

4. He was the only governor that met the millennium development goal in Nigeria in both education and health. In fact , Milinda and bill gate foundation gave him a personal gift of 1 million dollar for his achievement. Which he deposited in to state account instead of private account


The impact of what he did above is far greater than building one school, name any of your principal that have done better in Education than Peter Obi, he keeps donating to schools he didn't even build, what happened to the builders of those school?

Would you rather keep building ill-equipted school in the name of building a school or upgrade, equipt and fund an abandoned school building? Peter Obi is wiser than all of you so shush....
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by Electorate: 2:22pm On Apr 23
chopnaira:

You expect me to read that garbage of lies you posted 🤣

I just took one look at the screenshot you of Ojukwu university formerly Anambra state university and formerly Anambra polytechnic and college of agriculture you were trying to pass off as Obi's achievement. Anyway, Reno's challenge is simple enough. No need for the "hot air" you were not asked of. That's how you people fail exams.

How are you supposed to pass an exam when you don't read? You didn't read the article but arrived at your own delusional conclusion...now I see why most of you fail woefully.
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by chopnaira: 2:49pm On Apr 23
Electorate:


How are you supposed to pass an exam when you don't read? You didn't read the article but arrived at your own delusional conclusion...now I see why most of you fail woefully.
I replied your screenshot. Not your garbage epistle. Get that into your skull. My last post here so I don't help you bump your garbage thread filled with lies and hogwash. tongue
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by socialmediaman: 2:56pm On Apr 23
Biodun556:
A serious governor should build more schools and renovate old ones at same time

Peter Obi is useless

Developed societies don’t build new schools, the schools have already been built, they just need upgrades.

Private companies mostly build new schools.

Anambra had hundreds of schools that needed upgrades, they didn’t necessarily need new schools, just upgrades
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by DrMPH: 3:51pm On Apr 23
Lol. Dear OP. You should be more concerned that full grown ass men like the ones on this thread will gather and vote a 'goat' as president one day. The quality of the thought process of citizens of a country tells a lot about the future of that country. The conversations on this issue (whether for clout or not) show we really haven't learnt our lessons as citizens about the indices of development, for example.

Did PO build school infrastructure? (yes, however minimal)

Did he remodel schools to optimize outputs? (Yes)

Are there positive indices of his investment in Education? (Yes, even the blind can see the investments are still speaking in Anambra's educational foturnes till date).

Now, the ongoing narrative by the misguided fellas would lend credence to more 'white elephant' projects by government officials.

Obaseki, my state Governor has built or remodelled more schools (mostly higher) than any government in Edo state since return to democracy, yet the indices of human development shouldn't be discussed here.

What happened to the Osun airport conceived by Aregbesola?
EEkiti nko?
What about the monorail in Rivers?
YAnyone can predict the outcome of the newly awarded costal Road.

Nigeria is on a long thing, do not waste your time trying to wake up people that are pretending to be asleep. It's a futile effort. Everyone will enjoy the fruits of Nigeria they're helping to build for future generations.
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by aguluobi: 4:02pm On Apr 23
Stop quoting with your dull headed foolishness. List the school Peter Pandora Obi started completed n commissioned. If you can not list that pls never in your life should you quote me.



Electorate:


12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.


Plus:

3. Educationally , He met Anambra at 26th position in 2006 and left it at 1st by 2014 when he was leaving.

4. He was the only governor that met the millennium development goal in Nigeria in both education and health. In fact , Milinda and bill gate foundation gave him a personal gift of 1 million dollar for his achievement. Which he deposited in to state account instead of private account


The impact of what he did above is far greater than building one school, name any of your principal that have done better in Education than Peter Obi, he keeps donating to schools he didn't even build, what happened to the builders of those school?

Would you rather keep building ill-equipted school in the name of building a school or upgrade, equipt and fund an abandoned school building? Peter Obi is wiser than all of you so shush....
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by Mrexcell(m): 4:25pm On Apr 23
Only idiots take that useless clown called reno omokri's propaganda serious the clown is not even fit to clean the shoes of Peter Obi.
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by Ofunaofu: 4:35pm On Apr 23
seanfer:
Just a simple thing to do, present Reno with answer to his challenge and win $10,000.
Instead you people are opening one thread after the other and still no direct answer.

Reno Omokri got no $10,000 to give out

Reno is a hungry man and like they say, a hungry man is an angry man
Re: Reno's Challenge: Here's What Peter Obi Did On Education As Governor. by seanfer(m): 5:09pm On Apr 23
Ofunaofu:


Reno Omokri got no $10,000 to give out

Reno is a hungry man and like they say, a hungry man is an angry man
Why not provide the proofs to confirm whether Reno is broke or not.

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