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By Kenneth Uwadi<\/div>\n
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These are interesting times, the atmosphere is getting frenzy, and the excitement is bursting. Billboards are springing up and posters have defaced Owerri and other towns of Imo State. Some people are urging Mr A and Mr B to run in 2023 while some are showcasing achievements in officeof some politicians. The idea in using billboards and getting people to endorse one\u2019s political aspiration is normal and acceptable in civilized society. But we may wish to ask some of our State House ofAssembly members, House of Representative members, Senators whose pictures of projects are being displayed,\u00a0 are they real existing projects that meets the needs of the people? For the years of representation of your constituency, what have you offered as service to the people of your constituency?If any representative of the people has served well, does he needbillboards? Does he need to pay people to come up and endorse him for re-election? On daily basis we see politicians especially those seeking re-election running around begging people, hiring crowds and groups to endorse them for second tenure, pay money to newspapers, buying people, and locations to take photography.<\/p>\n

The projects carried out by a politician when he was in office that bettered the people will motivate the people to support him for future elections. One of the factors that helps a politician get into office is his antecedent,\u00a0 record of previous performance, how the politician\u00a0 hasthrough honest services, projects and programmes\u00a0 affected\u00a0 his constituency\u00a0 positively in the past. Such a politician must have thecapacity, competence and character to serve the people. He must alsohave a strong\u00a0 grass root political structure. A Politician orrepresentative that is not accessible to his people, that\u00a0 cannot bereached, that does not pick his calls , that\u00a0 is always busy in
\nmeetings, that\u00a0 cannot grant audience or interact with his people is not qualify to be elected. I hardly say good things about politicians. I do more of criticizing. You must be good for me to say good things about you.\u00a0 Saying good things about a non-performing politician\u00a0 or representative is endorsing criminality, corruption, inept leadership
\nand failure.<\/p>\n

One politician worthy of praise is Rt Hon Goodluck Nanah Opiah. He is aman who has been working like a divine agent and putting smiles on the faces of the people of the oil kingdom of the State. He is good. Through Opiah so many persons from the oil kingdom have received politicalappointments, contracts, jobs and scholarships. He has attracted so manystate and federal government projects to his constituency. He\u00a0 \u00a0iscounted among men who have occupied leadership positions with genuine
\nintentions to serve their fatherland, with loads of enviable and unmatched credentials. This man has indicated interest to run for the Orlu Zone Senatorial seat under the APC.<\/p>\n

That he has indicated interest to represent the zone at the senate has brought hope to the people. He\u00a0 \u00a0is a cynosure of all eyes in a political topography devoid of leadership and clarity of political vision, a model deserving of widespread replication. He deserves all the credit he is getting. His Leadership philosophy and his ability to grow
\nhis ideas from paper to service-delivery outcome make him a champion in this segment of our democracy. In this era of leadership deficit of Orlu
\nzone\u00a0 at the Senate , we must look to the margins to locate and support such\u00a0 effective, disciplined, compassionate, and result-orientedleader. When he was at the Imo state House of Assembly as Speaker and at the Federal House of Reps, he gave a good account of himself. He also gave good account of himself as Special Adviser to the Governor of Imo State and Coordinator of Oil and Gas Matters as well as Imo State Commissioner for Petroleum Resources.\u00a0 His Political structure at the
\ngrass root is second to none. He is loved by his people, with high followership. With Opiah at the Senate many of our youths will getfederal jobs. He will bring the\u00a0 much-needed quality and purposeful representation by way of economic empowerment, poverty alleviation and infrastructural development of our constituency.<\/p>\n

With Opiah at the Senate it surely will be a goodbye to too much talk and less action, good bye to total ignorance of legislative duties, goodbye to ignorance of committee work, goodbye to neglect of Imo West constituency, goodbye to ineffective consultation with leaders. This man finds joy more in seeing smiles on the faces of those whose mandate he exercised\u00a0 rather than in caressing his personal ego on the faces ofnewspapers and strut the walkways of political adulation. He knows the
\ntedium of subsistence agrarian life and understands the frustrations of the man on the street because he has been there. He feels an inner glow when he sees young men of his constituency engaged in productive ventures, and strives to reduce the trauma by broadening their investment options rather than recline on the couch of ease .<\/p>\n

Next week I will talk about\u00a0 the physical transformation of Ohaji\/Egbema when Opiah was at the Imo State House of Assembly from 2003-2011 and\u00a0 what he did for Ohaji\/Egbema \/Oguta\/Oru West when he was at the Federal House of Reps from 2015 -2019\u00a0 which are adequately documented though he has on numerous occasions reiterated his desire to be judged by the people rather than by media analysts and political commentators. This 2023\u00a0 Senatorial election provides another\u00a0 platform
\nfor the people to echo their conviction and confidence in his leadership style. The beauty of democracy rests in the multiplicity of viewpoints, but where there is unanimity of opinion, democracy truly transforms into a mandate from the gods. Come 2023, the people of Orlu zone will speak for peace, progress\u00a0 of the zone\u00a0 and will\u00a0 breath in change and fresh air\u00a0 with Opiah at the driver\u2019s seat.\u00a0 The people are in a vantage position to know which option will best serve theirinterest. In the light of this, people of the zone have said yes to Opiah for Imo West Senate . Our conviction is well-founded on resolve iron-clad. Hands of fellowship\u00a0 have been extended\u00a0 to\u00a0 progressiveforces in every hamlet, villages, communities and LGA\u2019s in Imo Westto stand and be counted in this clarion to entrench visionary
\nleadership,\u00a0 accountability and, above all, peace in our\u00a0 Senatorial Zone . On Opiah we stand come Imo West 2023.<\/p>\n

-Kenneth Uwadi lives in Mmahu-Egbema, Imo State, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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