[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hat Senator Barr Peter Onyelukahukwu Nwaoboshi is a veteran in political party administration is not at all in doubt and so, it is given that he would become a huge asset for the All Progressive Congress (APC), on his joining the ruling party. What was doubtful for me, was whether the APC would be composed to leveraging the freshness and the abundance of what the ‘oracle’ himself has to offer. The recent intervention of the Senator culminating in the re-zoning exercise supervised by the most distinguished Senator is a mere example in the many ways Nwaoboshi can help bring stability to the APC politics.
With a cognisant and superb tutelage, leading to cognate service, straddling several years, including a concluding headship as chairman, Delta PDP which was for two victorious terms, Senator Nwaoboshi is wholly equipped for what he is doing.
I have often advanced that knowledge, encompassed in hard work, envisages, and most likely would lead to success, but I also insist that this does not discount experience. Senator Nwaoboshi is a tested politician. Besides his administrative prowess, he has also proved to be a dependable ally, amplified in the partnership that now exist between him and DSP Ovie Omo-Agege.
Beyond the patriotism so displayed in the discharge of the onerous task to structure the emergence of an inclusive APC EXCO in Delta State, Senator Nwaoboshi, since his aligning with the APC, has visibly, in concert with DSP Omo-Agege extended the hope of a deserving victory for the APC in Delta State.
Senator Nwaoboshi is a well thought venture in APC, not because I said it but the reality is that his antecedents and previous
endeavours as a politician, coupled with a profuse capacity for intuitive engagement are reasonable collateral. That is my humble
opinion.
It is therefore baffling and exasperatingly mortifying, to see the stiffening of a few against what obviously is a turnaround in the
hitherto bleak fortunes of APC in Delta State, through the occurrence of a Nwaoboshi in party. It is more disturbing when one sees
that the loudest voices of opposition come from the immediate beneficiaries of the Senator Nwaoboshi’s rise to prominence,
particularly from the Oshimili North axis.
Ndi Igbuso have every reason to be proud of Nwaoboshi – an illustrious son whose political influence has brought multiplying gains
to Ibusa, evidenced by the several projects in infrastructure either attracted or personally provided by the Senator. In human
capital development, the Senator has, and is still empowering both youths and women in various trades and businesses to make
them self-reliant. Many more are also now on his payroll, sole effort of the Senator to alleviate the sufferings of his people.
Oshimili North as a whole, and indeed Anioma people cannot but extol Nwaoboshi. The nooks and crannies of Delta North are
witness to the Nwaoboshi factor in the distribution of social infrastructure that once eluded the region as stakeholders in the
NDDC. Nwaoboshi is willing to do more.
In conclusion, let us join the ‘new way’ to ensure this blooming partnership that will install good governance in Delta APC and
indeed, Delta State. As we march towards 2023, let us must to submit to our common interest, for discernibly, the coming together
of DSP Ovie Omo-Agege and Senator Peter Onyelukachukwu Nwaoboshi is a partnership that is working.
Ogbuefi Ben Egwuatu writes from Asaba.