— Political Cohesion
My heart bleeds that crises of varying degrees had engulfed our Senatorial District in the past years. The devastating consequences are very much around us to the extent that even our continuous survival as a people of the same ancestral origin is being threatened today.
The hard-earned unity of purpose, collective struggle, political cohesion and harmony bequeathed to us by the past patriots have been extinguished while ethnicity, nepotism, acrimony and mutual suspicion are the features of our contemporary politics. The outcome of this syndrome is stagnation and under-development.
As a descendant of the geo-political zone, I am poised to wage a fierce war against this knotty enemy till it is vanquished.
Three strategies shall be employed to prosecute this war as follows:
(i) Senatorial Policy Advisory Committee (SPAC):
This committee will be saddled with the responsibility of receiving inputs, requests and complaints from constituents, digest and forward recommendations on same to the Senator for his approval and action.
Membership of this body shall consists of 15 elders of integrity, drawn from the compositing five local government areas.
The committee shall meet twice in a quarter while the Senator can summon them at any time for extra-ordinary session.
(ii) Interactive Sessions:
To foster unity and harmony within my followership and carry majority of our people along, I shall at regular intervals organize interactive sessions with the grassroots dwellers in their respective wards to enable me appreciate their living conditions and acquaint me with their aspirations and yearnings. By this they will have sense of belonging and their confidence in elected leaders regenerated.
The inputs, requests and complaints emanating from such interactions will be blended with those flowing through the SPAC to form the benchmarks of performing my functions in the National Assembly.
(iii) Cordial and Constant Link With Other Political Office Holders:
In addition to the above, I will maintain cordial and constant link with other political office holders from the zone to ensure that democracy dividends are delivered to our people in practical terms.
