Egor/Ikpoba-OkhaPius 2023: Alile And The Henry Idahagbon’s Endorsement

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BY OMORUYI IGBINEDION

Those who know Hon. Barrister Henry Idahagbon, would attest to the fact that he does not stake his integrity and credibility without being sure of being right or without being sure that he could hardly be proved wrong. He is a man who takes time to analyze the quality of and do due diligence on what cause or whom he wants to support before taking to the market place.

Thus, when Hon. Henry Idahagbon openly endorses anybody running for an elective office, which he rarely does, one can be rest assured that such an aspirant is of premium quality in character and content, and has by conduct proved himself worthy before the people, amongst whom Idahagbon is a model and a leader. These are irreducible factors the award winning former Egor Local Government Council Chairman, Hon. Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General, and presently Commissioner in the Federal Civil Service Commission, value and hold to the light to detect a fault or otherwise.

Therefore, the recent endorsement of Hon. Pius Alile for the ticket of the APC to contest the 2023 Egor/Ikpoba-Okha House of Representatives Election, by the man of excellence and prime leader of APC in Egor Local Government Area and Edo State, Hon. Henry Idahagbon, with hundreds of his supporters in Benin City, is premium validation of excellent character, competence and popularity.

Interestingly, at the moment, this is the quality the party members and the general Egor/Ikpoba-Okha constituents are looking for to guarantee excellent representation of the constituency at the Green Chambers. They are tired of average or mediocre representation. Therefore, should APC leaders and delegates be looking elsewhere for that which only Pius Alile epitomizes at the moment?

Going for anything less than the best, which is Pius Alile, for any mundane reasons or parochial sentiments would be most unfair to the generality of the APC members and electorate in Egor and Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Areas. As a matter of fact, they have already built a consensus around the charitable, charismatic, empathetic and grassrooted former Councilman and compulsive philanthropist per excellence. In Pius Alile they have rediscovered hope, and are willing to give him their mandates, whether at the party primary or general election without conditions. Alile can be said to be a winner be the ballot is cast. And this is the kind of person the APC should field to get an easy win for the best representation.

I salute Hon. Barrister Henry Idahagbon for his boldness to acclaim and endorse Hon. Pius Alile, whom he had known and verified since 1999 when Alile was a councillor on his award winning Egor Local Government Team. I salute all men and women of conscience and goodwill whom I expect to follow suit. Nevertheless, Hon. Henry Idahagbon’s endorsement was actually an affirmation of the desire of the generality of the members of the APC in Egor Local Government Area in particular, and Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Federal Constituency in general.

What is then left for the APC delegates to the forthcoming House of Representatives Primary to do but to endorse whom the majority knows would deliver as required for the benefit of all. The leaders delegates of the Party from Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Constituency in particular, and Edo State in general must neither be swayed by an appeal to emotions nor be lured by the scent of lucre to betray the expectation of the people who have reposed the confidence, and rightly so in Hon. Pius Alile.

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