STOP USING GOVERNOR OKOWA’S NAME TO TOUT YOUR CHAIRMANSHIP AMBITION IN IKA NORTH EAST-BARR. UWAKINA

PRESS RELEASE.

Our attention has been drawn to a very crude and dangerous trend of politics that is presently permeating our political landscape in Ika North East. Certain class of politicians who are said to be nursing ambition for the position of the Local Government Council Chairman in Ika North East are reportedly going about with the slogan that the governor has commissioned them to run for the office of the council boss and as such the position is not vacant for any other person to contest in the emerging council elections.
Such first class fallacy and shameful dependency on the office and person of the governor for electoral victory is not only unpatriotic, but a patent reflection of the innate desire of such politician to occupy public office by all means possible.
A politician, who knows his onion and has deliverables, will prefer to run election on the basis of his credibility and capacity to deliver the dividends of democracy rather than tout his success on his self-acclaimed relationship with the sitting Governor.
If progress and development must be entrenched in the third tier of government, obviously closest to the common man, the trend of imposition, selection or outright nomination without contest in our electioneering process must be bluntly jettisoned and deliberately put into abeyance by both leaders and followers.
This recent trend of politics must be quickly abated to avoid putting the image of the governor in bad light.
This is not the time for people without track record, or those who have not tested their hands on any tangible enterprise or position of responsibility to gate-crash into positions of leadership all in the name of being close to the governor.
The choice of who becomes the next chairman of Ika North East must be a collective will and decision of the people. Aspirants must be willing to freely test their popularity without any extraneous interference and stop the intimidation of one another in the name of the governor.
A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE.
Barr. Uwakina Cletus
Dir. of Media & Publicity
Good Governance For Ika Nation

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