There is often a thing, two or more that separate geniuses from ordinary humans. They exude simplicity, but have ideas and dreams emitting from their minds like razor rays. They take a rare step, but align with the right movement. They have their eyes set on a range of targets, then take up a proactive plan to achieving them all. They leave no stone unturned, and do not make a show of their achievements and credentials. They are warriors, with faces borne of innocence.

On the 17th of March, 2022, Governor Chukwuma Soludo took to the stage to deliver his inaugural speech, not a word was said about the badly misconceived coinage of ‘Office of the First Lady’. It did not bewilder many careful observers of the ‘Isuofia Homeboy’. And it should not. The arch enemy of economics is waste. Economics is a highly disciplinary field, and its disciples are genuinely at home with the colloquial axiom: ‘Cut your coat according to your clothe’. As a grade A-level student of politics of creative disruption, Professor Soludo encircles his mind’s eye around positive impact, and not exhibitionist’s appeal.

Unsurprisingly, his wife, Mrs Frances Nonye Soludo understands these novel politico-economic principles too. As a master’s degree holder in Accounting and Finance from the prestigious University of Westminster, London, the Governor’s wife knows her roles, and has carved a precise niche around them. As a woman who values social governance, she has shown keen willingness to partner with the Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, to develop a cause that is worth the glace of all Anambra women. The Governor’s wife has always spoken about her desire to stitch out ties with every Anambra woman.

Consistently, the Governor’s wife speaks of her desire to accelerate the development work plan for the emancipation of a greater Anambra Child. Speaking from a universal experience, Mrs Nonye Soludo insists that with her husband’s support, she would carve out her own social-based platform to broaden her vision and ideologies.

As a child advocacy expert, Mrs Soludo is pursuing a vision that gives all Anambra children equal access to lasting social opportunities. Her ‘Anambra Child’ philosophy is to domesticate the soft arm of governance to involve largely women and children. Following up on her belief that each and every Anambra Child is blessed with enormous potentials, Mrs Soludo wants to provide consistent support to her husband’s approach to education for all children, and develop an ideal start-up platform for every child in the State. The Governor’s wife has also pledged to lead the war against debasing cultural practices against women and children, gender imbalance and child abuse. As a mother, one who understands the pains of child bearing and raising, the sighs and distress of social deprivations, Mrs Soludo sees every Anambra Child as a compulsory responsibility of not just the government, but the immediate society.

Mrs Nonye Soludo’s compassionate outlooks stand her out among the crowd, yet her humaneness goes deep down the heart. For her, everyone is human. Everyone deserves the opportunity to live better and happier. The Soludo Foundation, a charity-based platform founded many years ago and run by the family, easily comes to mind as an avenue that the Soludos have used to restore hope to humanity. The Soludo Foundation has awarded scholarships to indigent students, cleared hospitals bills of patients trapped in hospitals, provided food and shelter for the needy, and given hope to the desolate. Mrs Nonye Soludo has also expressed her readiness to expand the foundation to accommodate and touch a larger number of Anambra people, especially women, children, and the physically challenged, among others.

As a nutritionist and therapy expert, Mrs Soludo takes pride in personal hygiene, the right diet and overall health excellence. Her health philosophy explains that we are a representation of what we eat and how we treat our body. As a regular exerciser, the Governor’s wife believes that the body and mind share a very thin boundary, that both must work progressively hard together to maintain, or both houses lose their right of existence. Thus, she insists that the right health advocacy is also important — among other policies — to achieve lesser records of infant and maternal fatalities. Being one of the major targets of her social campaigns, the Governor’s wife says she is determined to use all strategic platforms to preach the practical values of healthy living.

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