How Imo State Deputy Speaker, Iwuanyanwu Is Breathing Freshness In Politics

DANIEL OBI

The present Deputy Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Amara Chyna Iwuayanwu, is a young, focused and vibrant politician to watch. He is determined to personally make a difference and positively impact  the society. His community and his colleagues in the House recognise this, which has assisted in his trajectory in politics.

Amara Chyna Iwuanyanwu, the present Deputy Speaker of Imo State is an institution. The older he grows, the more useful he becomes to the society. The young politician, who is Imo State House member representing Nwangele LGA, is simply a role model with desire and hunger to achieve weaved around him. 

Hon. Amara is a young entrepreneurial giant, who has his legacies built around integrity. He comes from a family of philanthropists in Amuzi, Dim-Na-Nume, Isu of Nwangele Local Government area, whose community interest is at their heart.
His father, Elder Chyna Iwuanyanwu, who earned the respect for cordial relationship and willingness to assist, knew God from his early age. 
He imbibed the Christian teachings early in life which he practiced and transferred to his three children.Amara’s grand-father gave birth to 10 children with his father, Chyna being the fourth among his nine siblings.

After his healing by God, Amara’s father, Chyna Iwuanyanwu single-handedly built an ultra-Modern new Covenant Anglican Church in his village Amuzi Isu in about 2013 to thank God for His mercies upon him. The Church was personally dedicated by the former Primate Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev. Nicholas Okoh and other renowned Anglican clergies. Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan was represented at the occasion by his Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo.

Elder Chyna was a former journalist with Radio Nigeria and Champion newspapers. He was also a Public Relations Consultant, politician, author, who was close to his community. He was also the pioneer Chairman, University of Lagos Alumni Association, Abuja branch.Elder Chyna Iwuanyanwu contested the National Chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2008 and National Publicity Secretary of the party in the 2012/2015 National Convention.Before and after his passing unto glory on August 13, 2018. His son, Rt. Hon. Amara Iwuanyanwu, had continued with the traits of his father.

Amara was very close to his father. He revealed this in his tribute to his father during the interment, when he said his father used to call him Enyinaya, Samara, My Soulmate, my Eagle.Hon Amara was born in Owerri, Imo State in 1980s, grew up in Surulere, Lagos, where he attained secondary education at Kings College and later proceeded to University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for a degree in Banking and Finance.Prior to Amara’s intention to run for the Imo State House of Assembly under PDP representing Nwangele LGA, Hon Amara, who is youthful both in character and personal relationship, had assisted communities and individuals.

He personally undertook the rehabilitation of roads in some wards. In his speech during the flagging off ceremony at Nkwo Onyeukwu Market Square, Abajah in December 2017, Amara Iwuanyanwu who defected to APC in April, 2020 for better political alignment, pointed out then that the project was non-partisan, adding that the well-being of an average Nwangele indigene was (and remains) his major concern.
He testified to God’s goodness in his life and that of his father indicating that it was this grace that was the genesis of the initiative rather than to score cheap political points. 

His actions since then are a reflection of the courage and unselfishness that his community and other individuals in Imo State have come to recognize in him.

– Daniel Obi writes from Owerri, Imo State.