Posted by Chinenye on Wed 06th May, 2026 - tori.ng
Governor Chukwuma Soludo has forwarded a new list of commissioner nominees to the Anambra State House of Assembly, featuring a bereaved mother of a kidnapped victim who was killed, as the proposed Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development.
Mrs. Esther Chinyere Onyekesi, the mother of late businessman Martin Onyekesi, also referred to as "Fish Magnet," has been named Commissioner nominee for Women Affairs by Anambra State Governor Prof. Chukwuma Soludo.
Before a ransom could be paid, the late Onyekesi's body was dumped in another area of Awka by kidnappers who killed him last year.
Protests were spurred by the occurrence, one of which was organized by well-known social media activist Martin Vincent Otse, also referred to as Very Dark Man.
Mrs. Onyekesi, the Women Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, or APGA, in Anambra, resisted attempts by several state contenders for governorship to politicize the murder, maintaining that it had nothing to do with politics.
The most recent event is that the Anambra State House of Assembly Speaker has received a list of commissioner nominees that includes Mrs. Onyekesi's name for review.
Only four of the eighteen individuals on the list were former commissioners; the others were new nominees.
The nominees and the ministries assigned to them, according to the list, are as follows: Agriculture, Dr. Ben Chuks Odoemena; Budget and Economic Planning, Mr. Chukwukadibia Okoye; Culture, Entertainment and Tourism, Mr. Udoji Amedu; Education, Dr. Ekene Ogugua; Environment, Dr. Clem Aguiyi, and Finance – Mr. Izuchukwu M. Okafor.
Others are Health — Dr. Afam Obidike; Information and Value Reformation — Dr. Law Mefor; Justice/Attorney-General – Barr. Tobechukwu Nweke, SAN, Lands — Prof. Offornze Amucheazi, SAN and Local Government and Community Affairs— Barr. Vin Ezeaka.
Other names in the list are: Petroleum and Mineral Resources — Prof. Charles Ofoegbu; Physical Planning and Urban Development — Barr. Chijioke Oseloka Ojukwu; Power — Engr. Casmir Chinenye Agummadu; Works and Infrastructure — Arc. Okey Ezeobi; Transport — Hon. Eddy Ibuzo; Women Affairs and Social Development — Mrs. Esther Chinyere Onyekesi and Youth Development and Sports — Mr. Patrick Agha, MBA.
The Speaker of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Somtochukwu Nkem Udeze, received the first group of commissioner nominees from Governor Chukwuma Soludo for confirmation during plenary on Tuesday, according to a statement made by Franklin Osankwa, SA to the Governor on New Media in the Office of the Speaker.