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| Kenneth Okonkwo. |
The
little I have come to know about politics, especially in Africa and in Nigeria
to be precise, is the fact that people who wish to occupy positions of
authority politically do so by being steadfast and with steady followings, climbing
through the ranks, making gradual progress until they arrive their political destinations.
No
one had ever risen from the bottom to the top without following laid down hierarchy,
which helps to sell the individual to his people, especially when he or she is
not a grassroots person.
For
some, it starts from just being a Counselor, to Chairman of a Local Government,
Commissioner or Special Adviser, Member, House of Assembly before getting to
the top of either a Governor or what have you and it baffles one when an
individual who had never occupied any political office would jump out of the
moon and want to be Governor of a state
These
days, we have seen alot of our stars from the movie industry appointed to
different positions with the latest being the son of Veteran Actor, Pete
Edochie, Yul Edochie who after contesting for the governorship of Anambra
State, Presidency afterwards, withdrew his membership of the party he contested
under, joined the ruling APGA in the state and have been compensated with an
ordinary Senior Special Assistant to the governor.
But
the story of another Veteran, Kenneth Okonkwo, popularly known as Andy from the
movie, Living In Bondage is something alot of people see as unrealistic,
unrealizable and unachievable.
The
concern here is, how can a man who had no prior knowledge of politics, having not
occupied any political position before aspire to be Governor of a state like
Enugu?
Not
only is this unrealistic, one of the major challenges he likely may face would
be his affinity with the All Progressives Congress, APC, a political party that
is regarded as alien to Ndigbo and how he plans to navigate this will be a story
for another day.
It is
my thinking therefore that Barrister Kenneth Okonkwo is toeing same line with
his colleague, Yul Edochie, which would see him fail woefully at the pools and
thereafter, decamp to the ruling PDP in the state and would get compensated
with an appointment, simply hoping it would not be an SSA like Yul.
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