By David Okpashi Odama
The game has begun. The fight will become even dirtier, messier. The stakes are high and certainly some vested interest will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. They will apply all the techniques, they can be cunning, smart and above all ruthless, in the pursuit of their ambition. They can go to any length, even deal under the table, because of desperation, there will be rain after the tunnel.
It was the icon of African literature, Chinua Achebe who rightly stated that, “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunters.” This saying finds expression in the move, the desire, aspirations and willingness of the man Hon. David Emmanuel Ombugadu in the quest to offer himself to serve and salvage the largest political party in Africa, the PDP.
Successes and achievements recorded during his tenure in the National Assembly, acceptability of his person by the generality of Nigerians, articulated programmes and policies enunciated and exhibited in his leadership pursuit has spoken volumes even outside government.
For long, Hon. David Emmanuel Ombugadu, the workaholic lawmaker, philanthropist as fondly called by his people, admirers and associates has been Chinua Achebe proverbial Lion whose story of hunt has been told by the hunters, Ombugadu has since change the narrative and is still changing and the starting point is for his constituent, the Peoples Democratic Party to tell his story of good governance and impact-driven interventions shown and testified by many especially who is who in the PDP and outside his enclave.
The core of his service to humanity, and mandate in life of Ombugadu is to protect and project the interests of the people through several and well-articulated and well-designed programmes and policies towards the enhancement of good governance in Nigeria at large writ-large; and so far so good, these virtues have stand Ombugadu out among other interest group in the nation polity and politics.
Hon. David Emmanuel Ombugadu has not only proven to Nigerians that he can do and has done enough to justify the pride and the core mandate and interests of the nation. If effective and efficient leadership have as it hallmark in the protection of the interests of those they represent, Ombugadu has demonstrated the zeal, passion and commitment further by protecting and projecting the interests of Nigerians and indeed the north central state as well as Nasarawa state in the global context.
If leadership were a language, the immediate past governorship candidate of the PDP in Nasarawa state has been breaking his back to fluently speak that political language to Nigerians, Nasarawa state government and the federal government through leadership qualities even beyond.
His numerous interventions especially at the grassroots will outlive him as Nasarawa and indeed PDP as a party have not had it this better in the context of meaningful contributions and impact-driven interventions.
There’s no gain debating the fact that PDP needs a resourceful, pragmatic, conscious, resilient and committed leader like Hon. Ombugadu to pilot the affairs of the party at the chairmanship level especially at this time that the party is bedeviled by leadership crisis. Sentiment should be kept aside at this crucial moment of the nation’s and the opposition PDP threshold to bring in genuine leader like Hon David Emmanuel Ombugadu to salvage the party, and open up a new chapter in the political structure in PDP.