THE GREAT ASSET THE IKA NATION HAVE IN DR CAIRO OJOUGBOH AND THE AGBOR POLITICAL FUTURE.

By Idris Suleiman

"If a king is not honoured, it is in his home town by his own people".

If we are keen followers of the political trend in Agbor and indeed, Ika South Local Government Area since the advent of the present democratic dispensation in 1999, we will all agree that they have been laboriously picking pebbles when they are endowed with an invaluable political pearle to be reckoned with. They seem to have lost their political sense of reasoning.

The people have been so marginalised and conditioned to wrongly accept political mediocrity and manipulations as a way of life to the level that if urgent steps are not employed now or taken to realign their reasonings with the present day political reality and correct the unwantom slavery imposed on them by outside forces, they will continue to mortgage their political future without knowing.

The height of the shallow reasoning is that they have been so misguided and deceived to turn against their leaders and themseves and leaving their house in disarray. The disagreements, disunity, impunity and imposition that have engulfed and bedeviled their political clime over the years have become chronic and shameful in recent times. Worse of it is that it may linger longer than they can ever imagine if they do not look inward and retrace their steps NOW.

On many instances, I have had to ask and ponder over why the Agbor political class would willingly and cheaply present themselves as gullible lots and enemy of themselves brainwashed into becoming a ready tool in the hands of outsiders to invade their political territory while they laugh away their potential right before their real enemy. While politicians in other local government areas across the state and beyond are politically and socially stable and listening to the voice of political leader(s), Ika South, the home of my mother can only boast of some disorganised men and women without control of their minds like a sheep without shephard.

Quite unfortunately too, they have become ignorant of the very fact that their political future is hanging on the balance for lack of instructions and cohession. Today, the Ika South political future is so bleak because the players will not listen to instructions. They have equally failed to realise that the oppressor is sincerely and genuingly out to protect his own interest and promote the wellbeing of his own people and local government area rather than advancing the Agbor course or Ika South local government area.

The zenith of the insult, slavery and impunity was the recent imposition of a party chairman on them by political charlatans in the state and this is one bane of development in the local government area if they are not economical with the truth. How long will this political ignorance, extortion and slavery be allowed to thrive unchallenged or unabated ?

Another gross recklessness of the Ika South political class that is so visible and disturbing to me as an Abigborodo man, even though my mother is of Agbor descent is that they are yet to know the political value and worth of the rare asset they have in Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, a vibrant and dependable political leader whose leadership quality, ideas and instructions will immensely aid them to get out of the prevailing confusions into the playing political field. Dr. Cairo Ojougboh is not only an astute politician, he's a phenomenon whose leadership inputs and political strenght can neither be ignored nor wished away. He's one political heavy weight whose political inertia cannot be hindered.

On this backdrop, I want to restate and re-emphasize that the future of Ika South politics will remain bleak and shoddy without the political inputs, experience and strength of Dr. Cairo Ojougboh whose inertia in the field of play have not been fully embraced and utilised to the fullest. I am convinced that people with sound political mindsets will agree with me that he's an experienced and exceptional technocrat cum politician and a national icon full of wisdom and understanding of the Agbor and Ika South political clime and hence not bereft of political knowledge to employ, lead and win.

Let me conclude by stating clearly that the worse mistake the Ika politicians will ever make will be to undermine, ignore or underate the political strenght of Dr. Cairo Ojougboh whose political tentacles spread across the country.