Governor Okezie Ikpeazu PhD, was on the media glare once again as the Christian Youth Leadership Assembly, last week honoured him as the Nehemiah of our time.
Such description by the group on our “silent achiever”, if I am to employ the words of Prince Uche Secondus, PDP’s national chairman on his recent visit to the State, remains not just so fitting but also apposite to a Governor of many firsts, especially when one considers other enormous accolades he has recently received. Such encomiums were only telling about the Governor’s enormous feats and accomplishments. Results they say, don’t lie!
To put into perspective, biblical inferences would be drawn with a clear juxtaposition of the life and the leadership situations of the biblical Nehemiah and the Abia’s Nehemiah to see where they intertwine as well as the derivable lessons.
Jerusalem, as we all know is the city of God; while Abia unquestioningly remains God’s own State.
Chronicling the book of Nehemiah, is was evident that the city had become a ruinous heap as Nehemiah inquires about it and he was not happy about the condition of the city, hence his intent of rebuilding the collapsed city. In the same way, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu PhD was not equally happy about the level Abia had regressed over the years and sought out means to resuscitate the State.
So, as Nehemiah served king Artaxerxes wine, there was much worry on his face which the king inquired about and Nehemiah opened up by pleading to the king to allow him go and rebuild Jerusalem; a request the king strangely granted including unbelievable logistics and Nehemiah was set out to rebuild the city. Similarly, Governor Okezie ikpeazu PhD, equally inquired by contesting for the gubernatorial elections in Abia which shall become a legitimate platform upon which the level of decadence hitherto in the State is currently being combated. And true to type, he won.
When irredentist and Naysayers like Sanballat, Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard it, they were so much disturbed that someone had come to promote the welfare of the Israelites; a similar situation which also played out in Abia as some opposition politicians were disturbed about the victory and the administration’s plan to revamp the State. These opposition politicians even got to gutter levels when they declared that the impending projects from the new administration will be straw projects which, when ridden by a fox, would collapse. The same way Sanballat and Tobiah attempted to rubbish the efforts of Nehemiah through misinformation and propaganda.
As if their propaganda was not enough the trio plotted to fight Jerusalem and stirred trouble against it just as was the case in Abia where troubles were stirred by some meddlesome interlopers and fueled by even outsiders without a stake in the Abia project so that Governor Ikpeazu’s effort will become frustrated. Yes, then contractual agreement with the State Government were almost crippled.
Yet again, they ambushed Jerusalem to take over the city just like the surreptitious securing of certificate of return in Abia by some passerby. God foiled the attempt and from thence, the Israelites were on guard while building the city.
Above all, when the wall was completed and all the enemies and all the surrounding nations heard it, they became afraid and lost their self confidence because they realized that the marvelous work had been done by the help of God. So shall through God’s marvelous works and the relentless efforts of Governor Ikpeazu shall the works be completed even beyond 2019.
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Inspired by the book of Nehemiah chapters 1,2,4 and 6
©Adims Onyenso
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