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Obiano, wife, APGA Chair, Speaker, CPS in New Jersey to seek foreign investment

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Governor Willie Obiano of Anamabra State&comma; his wife&comma; Ebelechukwu&comma;&NewLine;Speaker of the State House of Assembly&comma; Mr Uche Okafor&comma; &nbsp&semi;Managing Director&comma; Anambra State Investment&NewLine;Promotion and Protection Agency &lpar;ANSIPPA&rpar;&comma; Mr Jide Ikeako&comma; Chief of Staff&comma; Mr&NewLine;Primus Odili&comma; National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance &lpar;APGA&rpar;&comma;&NewLine;his party&comma; Mr&period; Victor Oye&comma; State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice&comma;&NewLine;Anali Chude&comma; Chief Press Secretary&comma; Mr James Eze &nbsp&semi;and many others are currently in New Jersey&comma;&NewLine;United States of America to seek foreign investment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The team&comma; led by the State governor&comma; is &nbsp&semi;expected to meet with the Mayor of Orange&comma; Mr&NewLine;Ted Green&comma; today&comma; Monday&comma; July 8 to sign a couple of business agreements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Obiano&comma; who arrived the Newark Liberty International Airport in&NewLine;New Jersey on Sunday evening was joined by his wife from Iowa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The visitors were received by officials of the City of Orange&comma;&NewLine;led by Mr Callistus Onyike&comma; an indigene of Anambra and Chairman&comma; Board of Commissioners&NewLine;of the city’s Diaspora Commission&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Speaking to newsmen&comma; the governor gave more insights into the&NewLine;purpose of his visit&comma; including exploring areas of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mutual assistance”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are here to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the&NewLine;Mayor of the City of Orange in New Jersey who gladly invited me over for this&NewLine;ceremony&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Among the things&comma; we will be discussing tomorrow are mutual&NewLine;assistance in the areas of education&comma; health&comma; infrastructure&comma; power in various&NewLine;forms&comma; and firefighting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Anambra state is growing and we are getting high-rise buildings&NewLine;springing up here and there&semi; we need to develop the capacity to fight fire of&NewLine;that sort&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The governor added that he would use the opportunity to meet&NewLine;with members of the Anambra community in New Jersey and update them on&NewLine;happenings back home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is an opportunity to update them on what we are doing real&NewLine;time&comma; what we have done in the last five years&comma; and what we want to do in the&NewLine;remaining three years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I will preach to them on the need to bring their wealth and&NewLine;investments back home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Wealth is not all about money&comma; it includes your contacts&comma;&NewLine;knowledge&comma; experience&comma; and skills&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Onyike&comma; who facilitated the visit&comma; said the essence was to build&NewLine;a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mutually beneficial” relationship between the City of Orange and Anambra&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">He said the Mayor had agreed to visit Anambra with a group of&NewLine;investors sometime in November&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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