 A number of state governor-elect Professor Chukumar Soludo has released a list of 80 member transmission committee to assist his swearing-in on March 17, 2022, in a statement issued by Soludo's media aide Joe Anatome. The list comprises of 80 members with prominent Nigerians who will play diverse roles. He said, the committee would raise and liaise with a team set up by the government of a number of states to ensure a seamless transition from Governor William Biano's administration to a Soludo-led administration from March 17, 2022. The statement confirmed that former Minister of Education Dr Obi Ezekwysili is the chairman of that committee, while Professor Benedict Orama, Professor Patutomi and Osita Chidoka will play crucial roles in the transition arrangement. Joining us to discuss this is Sidon Adidumbah. He is the Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment. Thank you very much, Mr Ambah, for joining us. Thank you very much. Happy New Year. Great, so let's go straight to it. Many are waiting the swearing-in of the Governor-elect, of course as many who are waiting also have greater expectations of this government. So, it's interesting for this list to surface on national dailies and, of course, on social media and top on that list, the chairperson is a former Minister of Education in Nigeria. So, let's start by looking at the number of people on that list. A lot of people are wondering why an 80-man committee for the transition? Well, each of them is bringing something to the table, something crucial and something fundamental. They are going to go for just a few words and then the committee goes into the presentation. So, it's not a long. These are people choosing for their service record. Each of them is development oriented. It's normal to call referred to a business as the Minister of Education. Yes, she is. But don't forget that she's an accountant and she was vice president of the World Bank. And she was the president who started what is normally called the new process office, now known as the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP. That shows the commitment of the incoming administration to new process, to transparency, to accountability, and to making Anampra become one of the fastest-growing economies, not just in Nigeria, Africa, but in the world. Don't forget the ultimate vision of the Zulu Dac administration is to make sure that Anampra becomes, in the next 50 years, a fully developed economy like South Korea, like Hong Kong, like Singapore, like Israel. So, the example goes on. They are odds, we believe that this is achievable. Interesting. Let's look at some other people who are on that list. We will see the former MD of Diamond Bank and former Gov. Pasparant in Ambeya State, Dr Alex Ote. It's interesting to see people who are not necessarily from Anampra State making that list, which is also a breath of fresh air. But we also see disruptors like Chidi Odinkalu and the likes of them, and Professor Pasparant told me who everybody knows is a change agent. But I would really love to, you know, analyse what these people bring to the table and how it would affect the transition committee. Well, one of the first persons you mentioned is Professor Ben, but he did not tell us who he is. He is currently the managing director of the African Import Exchange Bank based in Egypt. He is a professor of economics, highly highly accomplished. So the essential thing that each of the major drivers of the change that is about to take place in Anampra State and hopefully the rest of the federation is development oriented and development focused. And to use that beautiful language is a disgruntle. Stoluddo himself is a chief disgruntle. The revolution he unleashed under the current financial system and indeed the entire current economy remains in my humble opinion much less. Nobody has much that way. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, for, for, so people also want to use a very common expression. It is in for what we call creative destruction, creative destruction. The status quo cannot remain. The status quo brought Nigeria to this level of mass misery. We can continue. If countries and territories like Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan and Israel that have practically no mineral resources could be comfortably developed within a generation. When it starts in years, we in Nigeria can make it. Our climate is wonderful. We are endowed by nature, all kinds of mineral resources and so on and so forth. And even the location of our continent of the West African region of our country makes it a part that we develop not in an organic manner. The way the United States, France, the UK, Germany developed, it took them some 200 years to get to this level. We are going to leap through all that to say our development will not be through the natural process. We are in a hurry and we are just going to make it. Great. I mean, it's interesting that I love the idea that, you know, there's a vision and of course he has a precedence or an antecedence of sorts. But there's this, there's just the much that he can do as a governor of a number of states. So of course it now boils down to, you know, handshakes across the table, across beyond a number of states, being able to network with people, to be able to bring whatever vision he has to bear. But it's four or maybe eight years enough for him to even be able to begin to scratch the surface. And I'm not in any way trying to be pessimistic. No, no, no, that is what the truth is. This is one of the challenges you have in democracy all over the world. Many of these countries and territories have developed very rapidly. That is to say within 30 years, ironically, have been developed by digital shifts and causing digital shifts. Take South Korea. The president of development began with a repact who came to power in 1961 via a military coup. And the following year launched the fourth development plan that resulted in the rapid rise of his country. The other nations clearly, apart from Israel, we are not developed by democratic governments. So we have this debate going on amongst scholars throughout the world. Is digital shift the best to ensure the rapidity of development of poor economies? Some say yes, some say no. You can look at Singapore, it's not a digital shift as such, but it's not. It's what it called an illiberal democracy. Democracy is quite all right, but not liberal democracy. This is the same used by scholars. So, but Israel, but it has a democracy. Malaysia, but it has a democracy. Indonesia has been for many years by soldiers. But we have to deny that in a democracy there are challenges. If you want to transform your economy the way Saludah wants to do, but definitely you will be there for maybe four years, maybe eight years. It is great to make sure we move in a direction that becomes almost absolutely impossible to revise. First, we headed that direction. There is a mass movement that is not going bad. And the indicators as well that are number of things more than any other part of the jury will lead this transformation. That's a mission I'd deal with. OK, finally before I let you go, we have just a minute. Just as you've made mention of the fact that we need to have more and more people who continue. Like they always say, we all say that government is a continuum, but we hardly see that because everybody comes with their brand new agenda and totally abandon what their predecessors had put together. What's in the works? I know you might not necessarily be the right person to answer the question, but I'll ask it anyway. What's in the works to make sure that like-minded governors for Anambra state, which I have said in the past, Anambra has maybe probably done a little bit well in having interesting persons as their governors, but then of course to carry on that idea and that vision of making Anambra what you want it to be. What's in the works in making sure that the leaders that are like-minded are always ready to run for that office or somewhat prepared to follow that agenda to the latter in closing? That is why the transition we are seeing now from Governor William there now to Prime Minister of Strygwm a Saludio is consequential. It is transformational. Governor William there just woke up in the morning and said I'm going to back Saludio. He reflected on this. Don't forget that as early as December 2019, Governor William set up a committee of talented people, of professionals who have members of the Anambra vision through this act. The responsibility of this committee is to grasp a strategic plan for Anambra's rapid development, for Anambra's images as a fully developed economy within 50 years. So Saludio is the chairman of this committee. So it's only logical that the chairman of the committee is not going to be in driver six as governor. So everything has been planned, but at the time Saludio leaves another transformational oriented leader. We all will take his place. Now we have to go. We have to go. I apologise. We're totally out of time. Unfortunately, time waits for no one. But I want to say thank you. I appreciate your thoughts, your comments. Well, we are rooting for you and your state hoping that the goals and the plans that you have come to fruition. Sila Ladeedunbar is the information commissioner for Anambra's Day. Thank you so much for speaking with us. It's a pleasure. All right. Well, thank you all for being part of the conversation. As today is Friday, we will live you with the highlights of the show this week in case you missed them. We're going to bring you up to speed. And that's all that we have for you for this week. I'll see you on Monday when plus politics returns at 7 p.m. Have a great weekend. I am Mary Anacorn. It's called the president 70% in the fight against corruption. You see, fighting corruption is not a tea party. It's a difficult task for anybody and in any country of the world no matter how powerful, no matter how developed the country is. Corruption can be very tricky when it comes to avoiding the long arm of the law. And you also know that corruption crimes are not permitted in the open. And that means that a lot of efforts will have to be put in place to trace the evidence of corruption. I must tell you that originally and for some time, I've always believed in competency as a photo zoning. In other words, let's look for somebody who is able to deliver the goods there. 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