ORGANIC INTEGRATION: IGBAKPA’S FOCUS ON RENEWAL AND ELEVATION OF ETHIOPE

“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.” – Plato.

One very vital fact in the structural design of buildings is that no building in the world is built with stones and elements of equal size. Though I do not want to concern myself with issues of architecture, but I recognize that anything, edifice or entity, that must stand strong, and sustainably so, must be made up of elements that are proportionately distributed, from pedestal to pinnacle. Nothing and no one in life can fulfil himself independently, banking solely on the relationship of its kind. You would need everyone small and big to achieve that life objective. This is certainly Hon. Ben Igbakpa’s life and political thinking – that everyone notwithstanding social rank is carried along with dutiful responsibility, to fulfil the goals of human capital development.

Igbakpa’s transparent message of comprehensive and shared responsibility has erupted an attitude of all-encompassing courage and loyalty from people across board, who believe that his kind of political ethos should be the spine of political representation from wards through to the national level. For the people of Ethiope, they have rallied themselves courageously to demand modification to their elective representative arrangement and avowed to follow Igbakpa with total allegiance and loyalty, because he is the one who really make them feel as important members of the sociopolitical economy.

Igbakpa’s leadership style is pleasingly bona fide. He has been around the political scenery for so long, you can be sure he doesn’t put all his eggs in anybody’s basket. You hardly ever sense Igbakpa is affirming something or functioning in a particular mode for the reason that it favours the connivance of any cabal, and that is the sort of strong, influential and assertive leader the people of Ethiope truly need. One whose words and actions are considered for the primary consideration of the people. There would be no hidden charges that amount to the cost of his emergence as the leader of the people, because in all the capacities he has functioned, he has taken up all of his obligations quite distinctively.

- Lewis Ebode