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Rivers LGA Elections and Samuel Nwanosike’s Bid For Ikwerre LGA Chairmanship



With the expected kick start of campaigns for the Rivers State Local Government elections billed to take place on Saturday the 16th of June 2018, one candidate for the elections whom eyes will be looking up to is none other than the indefatigable personality whom many also refer to as ‘Ishi’ a true son of the soil who in the very few period he has been in the state’s political firmament has become a politician who has continuously sent shivers down the spine of the opposition in the state particularly the All progressives Congress APC which incidentally has vowed never to partake in the Local Government elections.

The fact that Mr. Samuel Nwanosike who at a particular time fell victim of the APC’s fiendish politicking machinery using state sponsored intimidation against him, is vying for the Chairmanship of the local government of the acclaimed leader of the APC in Rivers state makes his quest even more interesting. Mr. Nwanosike a quintessential grassroots politician, remains a threat to the party not only in his LGA but in the state not with his unalloyed support for the state’s governor Chief Barr. Nyesom Wike who has performed very well to the admiration of the people of the state.

The people of Rivers State who have indicated strong desire to see the governor who they also refer to as Mr. Project back to the state’s Government House come next year, see Mr. Nwanosike as part of the success story of the PDP administration and also wish to do whatever they can within their power to ensure that he becomes the Chairman of the local government which he patriotically aspires to lead thereby replicating the PDP success story at the grassroots.

I may not be from Ikwerre local government but being a free born Rivers person with friends cut across the length and breadth of the state Ikwerre LGA inclusive, I believe sincerely that the people of Ikwerre LGA are lucky to have someone like Mr. Nwanoske Samuel aspiring to lead them. This is because he is one of the success stories of what a young politician should be -frank, altruistic, humble, purposeful and filled with zeal to make positive impact on the people he leads, Mr. Nwanosike to say the least will make the people of the LGA get the deserved respect they have lost as a result of the negative politicking which their son in Abuja has given the LGA and the state in general.

Coming with the experience of having being a care taker local government Chairman of the LGA, Mr. Nwanosike has the requisite experience and outreach within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party PDP to make a difference that will be craved for by even those outside the local government.

As a media practitioner, we miss him after having resigned as the Publicity Secretary of the PDP in the state so as to contest the LGA elections. But the fact that he is going to make greater impact and contributions at the local government level which requires his likes is enough consolation for us at the media. I also know that he will not be too out of the picture being a rabid personality that he is.

One problem of local government administrations  across the country is that they have always had politicians that lack the zeal and wherewithal to lead the people rightly so as to ensure that they revolutionalise the grassroots for better performance. Will Mr. Nwanosike disappoint the people? This is most unlikely.  As I write this piece, I urge the people of the local government just as I have urged the people of the entire state to show appreciation for the way the governor has carried the people of the state along through qualitative governance by coming out en mass to vote the PDP and its candidates across the LGAs. I understand also that the primaries of the ruling party in the state is yet to take place but considering the political clout of Mr. Samuel Nwanosike and his contributions to the success story of the party in the state as well as his endorsement by the political leader of the party in the local government Sir Celestine Omehia as the sole candidate of the party in the LGA, I believe strongly that it will not be a herculean task to achieve and at the end of the day, the good people of Ikwerre LGA will be the ultimate winners.

Comrade Nwokoma Messiah contributed this piece from Port Harcourt

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