It is no longer news that Ikwuano will be fielding two of her “illustrious sons” to vie for the Abia Central Senetorial seat through the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressive Congress (APC) platforms come the 2023 general elections. This is coming Sixty years (60yrs) after the late Senator Ukatah from Oloko represented the old Bender division during the first republic.
It therefore becomes very expedient that we thoroughly assess the situation we are faced with as a people in the interest of “Ikwuano First”,since our decisions today MUST affect the standard of life of our people for generations to come either positively or negatively. To be more explicit,should we succeed in producing the Abia central senator come 2023, it would take atleast another Forty years(40yrs) for Ikwuano after her tenure,to once again have the opportunity to represent Abia central at the prestigious Red Chambers, “all things being equal” like the economist would say.
This implies therefore that accepting the senatorial position in 2023 effectively retires all Ikwuano indigenes from the age of Twenty five years(25yrs) upwards from such aspirations and service to motherland in their life time.
Therefore this must be treated with the seriousness it deserves in the interest of the majority and not to grease ego’s.
As a people, it is important we set a threshold of what we aspire for and the minimum we intend to achieve with this position for Ikwuano as a people using this office as a base.
We must collectively decide who amongst our two aspiring sons to support in block based on their past anticedent and personal sacrifices to the development of our communities. This block support will ensure that our votes are not divided which may cost us the trophy.
The result from our competitive analysis of our aspiring sons and our collective interactions with them will enable decide on what to do and the options we have available. ” He who fails to plan, plans to fail”.
We MUST NOT MORTGAGE the future of our children within the stated age margin mentioned earlier if in all honesty we are not sure of what will be achieved collectively using this office at this time or if we are not ready for the office as a tool for the collective development of our people.
We MUST not be parochial in determining what we want as a people.
For us to grow as a people, we must try to be very objective in setting our standards, we must minimise hatred,sycophancy and the institutionalization of mediocrity in the spirit of “Ikwuano First”
Without Ikwuano, we won’t be contesting.
