Uwajumogu’s show of exemplary humility

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Benjamin Uwajumogu
Benjamin Uwajumogu

By Chigozie Uzosike, 07037723606,
UwajumoguThere are leaders in our contemporary society, whose style of doing things must be imbibed. One tends to draw ideas, inspirations, directions and knowledge from their dispositions.
In the world of leadership, three things are paramount. One is the display of willingness to serve the people, second is the mounting of the position proper and third is sustaining the position and allowing the goodwill of the office to bring the needed dividend. The only way the position can be sustained is by show of humility.
The Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu representing Ihitte/Uboma State constituency is my kind of leader given his high sense of humility which he displays anytime I see him. The humility that exudes from the Speaker has gone a long way to continue to cause a generational shift in the way governance is run.
Without humility, especially one that is exemplary, such as Uwajumogu?s, no leader can seem to go far. Am not talking figuratively, am speaking literarily. Any person who wants to be a future leader must have somebody he is looking up to. Sometimes you are not looking up to that person because of the position but because of the humility the person displays that sustains him in that position.
The number one lawmaker in the state has not come to bully others with the paraphernalia of his position as Speaker who is the generalissimo of the legislature. Uwajumogu has come to use his office to learn from his colleagues, knowing that no man is repository of knowledge. In the school of learning, no person is a graduate.
I guess it was this exemplary and visible humility that made his colleagues to decide to elect him Speaker in 2011 and since then he has been keeping the House together and has not allow any imbroglio to get out of hand. His humility midwife the House with different party divides.
The number three citizen of Imo State has always given his ears to every member of the House. He has not favored one against the other. This to me, is the humility one needs to excel in legislation. The people of Ihitte/Uboma and the entire Okigwe zone must be thankful to God for creating in their generation a lawmaker who has touched lives of his constituents through his humility.
This quintessential lawmaker has continued to ensure uncommon cordial relationship with the executive which indeed make their work easier. I remember the Speaker telling the Correspondents covering the House that he is not elected Speaker to fight anybody but to use his position to change the face of legislation in the state.
The very many bills/motions passed by the Seventh House, Third Assembly led by the Speaker was because the House come together to change the way things are done. Hear the Speaker in one of his speeches: the State Legislature has always proved its mettle in the discharge of its responsibility doing its ?raison d?etre?, by recording laudable achievements particularly in the passage of bills and motion. On the oversight functions of the legislature, the House has worked in synergy with the Executive in the supervision of the rural and urban roads project in the state.
The Speaker believes that power is held on trust for the people, that all public resources entrusted to the care of leaders must be judiciously used so that the dividends of democracy are felt by all and sundry. This is what I, Chigozie Uzosike think and I posit ?All that is required is sacrifice, sincerity of purpose, understanding, courage and political will to bring development to the people.
Combating those who, for obvious reasons choose to ignore the glaring facts or deny the truth is a task. The Speaker would tell you in the words of Williams James ?that if anything is humanly certain, great men and their environment, it is that the great man?s society, properly so called, does not make him before he can remake it?. Indeed the House has done well in changing the face of legislation in the State and it should be applauded.
Lets talk about the senatorial ambition of Rt. Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu who wants to represent Okigwe Zone at the National Assembly. The name of the game is experience and somebody who has the capacity, character, finesse, integrity and prowess to attract the dividend of democracy to his people should be allowed to go to Abuja.
With what the Speaker has done in Imo State House of Assembly and the political maturity exhibited in the House, going to the Senate will be a cruise. If a neophyte goes to the Senate, before the person finishes learning the robes, the House would have risen. The state needs mature men who have already learnt the nitty-gritty of the legislative maneuvering to move to the mainstream of the House. It is only humility that makes way for the lawmakers there in the House. I will write more on his senatorial ambition later on this platform.

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