Shun Praise-Singers and Sycophants; activists tell Abia-Governor elect, Okezie Ikpeazu
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With just a few days to the swearing in ceremony of the incoming administration of Abia State. Governor-elect, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has been urged to shun praise singers and sycophants if he must achieve his administrations objectives.
This is coming as expectations mount on the Governor – elect to reclaim Abia especially Aba which is described as the Japan of Igbo-land, Nigeria and Africa at large.
This Abians say must be achieved through conceited and conscious efforts of creating a conducive environment where businesses can thrive, and health a priority.
It is no longer news that Aba, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State was on the front burner during electioneering owing to its significance and place in the development of Abia State and the country at large. The city which appears neglected for a long time has suffered setbacks in both economic and social activities which stems from poor and deplorable road network, lack of social and basic amenities to place the city on the global map.
During election campaigns, all the candidates who contested for the governorship positions focused their campaigns basically on Aba, and its challenges as well as measures to tackle them.
The Governor-elect Okezie Ikpeazu at so many fora noted that he will embark on massive road reconstruction, building of inter-jecting and intra city roads as well as good drainage channels to ensure easy flow of flood and dirty water once it rains, and to encourage investment opportunities in the state.
As he prepares to step up the podium as the administrator of the state for the next four years, a legal Practitioner and political analysist, Paschal Onyeagu and a novelist and a Social Critic, Inyom Ngozi Onyioha-Orji has urged him to shun praise singers and sycophants if he must achieve his administrations objectives, while calling on him to thread on cautious waters.
Paschal Onyeagu noted that for Aba to be fixed, alot of toes must be matched on and decisions taken that might also affect the governor, but says this can only be done through legal means. He added that though the governor might be in for a serious business, he should also consider that legal means must be taken to achieve that.
Inyom Ngozi Onyioha-Orji on her part noted that the governor-elect needs what she described as “firm of purpose” and “humility” if his administration must be reckoned with, maintaining that praise-singers and sycophants are spoilers of administrations, while advising him to borrow a leaf from the mistakes of previous administrations and work on liberating himself from them.
They both stated that “time for excuses” for failure is over, insisting that Abians will not take “excuses” from him, should he fall short of his promises of a new Abia, where the gap between the rich and the poor, the governor and the governed are breached.
They however, prayed that God grants him the wisdom and the grace to pull through, in his service to the people, while demanding that he deals with the issues of godfatherism and favouritism which they emphasized has been the bane of Abia state.
Onyioha-Orji wrapped it up in a poem tagged “IF”
as expressed below;
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are loosing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men
About you are doubting you
But make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can ignore the praise singers and their tall tales and instead listen to
Wise advice that don’t paint the world
Around you blue
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating.
If you can meet Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just
The same
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance
Run,
Yours is the earth and everything
That’s in it
And – which is more – you’ll be a man
My son.
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