May 16, (THEWILL) -When Uju Ebeze Kennedy Ohanenye bought the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms as a presidential aspirant of the All Progressive Congress (APC), female members of the political party were happy that a woman had finally joined the race for the presidency in the 2023 general election under the platform of the governing party.
Uju Ebeze Kennedy-Ohanenye is a legal practitioner and businesswoman based in Abuja. She is the Managing Director of Kenuj 02 Mall located in a highbrow area of the Federal Capital Territory and Owerri in Imo State.
The businesswoman turned politician is happily married with four children. A native of Awka in Anambra State, the presidential aspirant is also a philanthropist. She is passionate about the welfare of the less privileged and persons living with disability. Some of those who have benefitted from her kindness and generosity are students, widows and the wretched of society.
Kennedy-Ohanenye has built and equipped numerous health centres in rural communities in Kogi, Kaduna, Kano, Imo and Anambra States. She has also donated skill acquisition centres in some rural areas in some of those states. The legal practitioner might be an accomplished business woman and philanthropist, she is however a novice in the political terrain.
She has never occupied a political position or taken a government contract. But she has been a card carrying member of the APC for a few years. She has supported her party on several occasions by giving out her mall in Owerri and Abuja as political campaign offices, donating T-shirts, banners, flyers, face caps to hundreds of thousands of people. Her desire to be the number one citizen of Nigeria is born out of the passion for humanity.
Kennedy-Ohanenye believes the country needs a mother to effect the change the country desires and she is ready to address the problem of poverty from the grassroots level. However, she is afraid of the party’s primary election because she feels the men can muscle her out of the race, they might want to push her over but she has promised not to be intimidated as she has been emboldened. Since she made her intention known, she has gone to see Beta Edu, the national APC women leader and other notable elders of the party who can make her dream of ruling the country come to pass.
