Soludo finally wins!

To think that I ought to know Charles Chukwuma Soludo more than I do is

one of the facts of life.

Juniors tend to know Seniors more than Seniors know juniors.

For two years, we were in the same department in the University. I got to know that from his profile.

I left in 1982 and he left in 1984.

It was later I got to learn that he lost Election for the post of Students Union President, to late Chima Ubani.

I was in the Finance Industry, when he emerged the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

After his footprints there, he plunged back into the murky waters of politics with his cousin Late Professor Dora Akunyili, an old Girl of University of Nigeria Nsukka, too.

The results of his foray into Politics in his State Anambra, were no different from his attempt at leading UNN students, where he finished with flourish as a First Class graduate and later a Professor of Macro Economics.

Today, for persistence and his bold attempt under OBJ to change the banking landscape of Nigeria, he has finally landed a big prize where it matters most.

The history of Banking in Nigeria cannot be complete without Soludo's banking reforms.

His model was Malaysian, why, I do not know but like the story of GSM, almost everyone now owns a bank account in Nigeria, today.

Thanks to the gargantuan leap from N2bn Capital base for Nigerian banks to N25bn!

Today, Anambra state, the state of traders and intelligentsia, now has an egg head for a Governor.

Zik of Africa founded University of Nigeria Nsukka. Chinua Achebe lectured there. Peter Obi schooled there. They are all indigenes of Anambra State.

On the other hand, the Nnewi trader is part and parcel of Anambra State that also produced the leading indigenous Vehicle Manufacturer in Nigeria, Innoson.

The challenge before Charles Chukwuma Soludo is to use Anambra State to show how he can change the Economic landscape of Nigeria as a Macro Economist.

Only then would he have emerged as the solution he and his supporters, claim.