Yesterday, Wednesday 4th April, 2018, Hon. Ben Igbakpa visited the PDP secretariat in Isiokolo, in Ethiope East amid pomp and genuine bubbling excitement.
The massive crowd through every turn of the Local Government Headquarter while hailing the man who in former times would be labelled as being from the “other side” set straight the rightfully enthused notion that he has ‘lots of passionate people with purposeful goals’ behind him.
For the political analysts and witnesses of this momentous entry and intent declaration, one thing is most profound – The common denominator between the East and West of Ethiope Federal Constituency riddled on the guise of indigenous ownership of leadership, have for the first time in a very long time been linked by an unfathomable vigor of free-thinking alignment. The people from the respective divides have undeniably and desirously joined forces without any form of political compulsion. For them, their support for Igbakpa is borne out of their longing for a progressive and liberal model who would embrace everyone regardless of their geographic faction.
Igbakpa is certainly an open-minded architype who first and foremost sees you as a person and bears your hopes. As one member of the huge troop of supporters remarked, Igbakpa ‘knows every one of his devotees by name’. This has seen many more people join the ranks of his campaign train, continually thronging to endorse and pledge their allegiance to him. As he continues to grow in confidence, embarrassing those who never thought he has a chance, the people have thus unrestricted themselves to dream less of their frustrations and believe that what is critically established as leadership failure to execute their thoughts, decisions, and aspirations at the green chambers of the national assembly, would be obliterated by a Pilot with a profile of staying on course with people-friendly initiatives.
Igbakpa definitely has a prodigious sense for what it takes to get people participating in the governing process. Just as imperative, He will forever be celebrated in Delta state for his role in affecting past the stale structures of people management and engagement. When the people of Delta State talk about one of their own who is in the business of “doing good things for others” through governance and personal philanthropy, they would count a few but not many better than Hon. Ben Igbakpa.
- Lewis Ebode
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