Anambra 2021: Accord party candidate promises to reverse state medical tourism narrative
By Oluwatope Lawanson
Dr Godwin Maduka, Accord Party candidate in the Nov. 6 Governorship election in Anambra, said if elected, his administration will make Anambra the number one medical tourism destination.
Maduka said this at a news conference in Awka on Wednesday.
The America-based medical doctor and owner of the American Pain Institute in Las Vegas said it is unfortunate that people from Anambra, which produced a good number of world-class doctors, still seek medical services outside the state.
“I will ensure that medical tourism is reversed.
”Anambra produces some of the best medical doctors in the world including myself.
”I am contesting to make Anambra an epicenter of medical tourism in Nigeria,” he said.
Maduka, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said his immediate programme upon assumption of office will be to tackle hunger, insecurity, and unemployment.
He said he will also boost the trade and commercial potentials of Anambra by opening up the maritime transport system.
“I will address hunger because many people are dying of hunger, we will battle insecurity, I will engage criminals in dialogue while ensuring security.
“I will also provide employment for the people through the construction of roads and other social infrastructure.
“It is not difficult to create a maritime route from the Atlantic Ocean to Onitsha to boost our commerce, we just need to engage the people who know what to do and I am already talking with them,” he said.
Maduka expressed confidence that he will win, saying he had some of his supporters from his previous party.
“I joined the PDP over two years ago, I contested with every other person, had the votes cast, I would have won, but the system was changed on election ground.
“I don’t have a problem with PDP because that is how they chose to conduct their affairs. Now, I am in the Accord Party, they are the people I can work with.
“On the election day, most of my supporters in PDP will vote for me, I was also a sympathiser of APGA, my friends there will vote for me, they don’t need to decamp with me,” he said.
In his remarks, Chief Bartho Igwedibia, Chairman of Accord Party in Anambra, welcomed Maduka and described him as the right man for the job.
