There is no arguing the fact that Professor Chukwuma Soludo, CFR, is a man who has enjoyed a prime and successful career. The reputable Professor of Economist has remained a household name right after his time at Nigeria’s apex bank, where he spearheaded banking revolution still referenced to in today’s global financial history. But the Isuofia ‘Village Boy’ did not come that far on a lone ambition. It was a collective drive; a strong vision driven by spousal support. Queen Frances Nonye Soludo has always been the invisible pillar providing firm support to these success stories.

A graduate of Computer Science from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Master’s degree holder in Accounting and Finance from the University of Westminster, London, Mrs Soludo comes with a unique precedence; the kind that defies popular rating and stretches farther than the usual political expectancy. Most notable is her exemplary passion for hygiene and healthy living, which could form a key component of her local advocacy as the governor’s wife.

Prior to the November sixth governorship election in Anambra State, Mrs Soludo had on each of her outings expressed her unquenchable belief in the future of the Anambra Child. For her, the Anambra Child is a young cotyledon that must be carefully nurtured into an elegant, beautiful tree. That is not all, the governor’s wife has always made it clear that she would champion a strategic social movement that takes cognizance of the potentials of every Anambra Child.

A mother of six successful children, Mrs Soludo speaks not just as a mother who has co-overseen her kids’ development, but like a through-bred professional and one who is grounded in social philosophy. In many of her outings, the new governor’s wife talks about her belief in the potentials of the Anambra child; her unwavering commitment to a social environment devoid of economic and social disparities.

Already adept at her roles, Mrs Soludo is not giving up any minute to reliving flattering applauses; instead, she has pledged to give her husband every needed support to achieve an Anambra of everybody’s dream. Not satisfied, the new governor’s wife has also insisted on establishing a social course that would represent her grassroots objectives.

But, Mrs Soludo’s humaneness did not start today or in the course of her husband’s political journey. Different from many before her, the Isuofia beauty queen has compassion inked in her veins. She sees through the walls of hope down to the foundations of mercy. She does not believe in ethnicity, religion or socio-political identifications.

During Professor Soludo’s early years as a young professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, his wife, Nonye, had begun her entrepreneurial pursuits, opening one of the first internet cafes on campus at the time, where students came to do computer appreciation — given the device was fairly new in the country — and to also run other academic requirements. She was called ‘Madam Queens’, while her cyber cafe, located at the popular Continuing Education Centre (CEC) complex, was endearingly known on campus and the university environment as ‘Queens Computers’.

More than twenty years later, the Member Representing Anambra East Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Honourable Obinna Emenaka, who was studying pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Nigeria during the time, met Mrs Nonye Soludo at an event for the first time since he graduated. The lawmaker then went on to tell how Mrs Soludo had kindly agreed to pair him with a co-student to learn the computer because the costs of learning the machine at the time was high and they could only afford them by merging their fees. To do such was out of the rules for the course, but Mrs Soludo showed motherly concerns and put priority above secondary encumbrance.

Honourable Emenaka would later graduate with distinction knowledge of the computer, a success story he still attributes to Mrs Soludo’s humaneness.

That true life encounter is just one testimony out of hundreds of Mrs. Nonye Soludo’s examples of love and motherly outpour. It is no surprise; a tiger’s might is borne on its finger nails. That’s Mrs. Frances Nonye Soludo!

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