AGBASIMELO, THE TRUE HERO OF ANAMBRA STATE

 

As various people and different interests strategize to ensure the continuation of the Anambra tragedy come November 6, 2021, our lives and our future are now firmly in our own hands, to decide whether to allow our destiny wasters to continue to waste our destinies or to wake up, search out the true hero of our state and follow him, in order to avoid surrendering our lives and those of our children and unborn children again, to the same people who have kept us in hell since the creation of Anambra State.

If we do not want this to happen, then we must be conscious of this political season and be conscious also of the desperation of our politicians and their stomach infrastructure greed. In the absence of either political ideology or philosophy, all our politicians are after are platforms that will give them access to Anambra’s revenue. There is no interest in the well-being of the people of the state. This is therefore the reason for a paradigm shift, from the same group of people and their friends who have been wasting our lives all these years to the true hero of the state, who for years, has been using his personal income to provide succour for all ndi Anambra, across the 21 LGAs.

My prediction is that the next governor of the state will emerge by default from the smaller political parties and will not emerge from the three major political parties, which are presently bedevilled with self inflicted crisis. This is a blessing in disguise. The smaller parties are running with brand new faces of youthful courage, relevant precision and unblemished ambition, in glaring contrast with the three major parties, who are either running with well known killers of Anambra dreams or their proteges.

They are our destiny wasters who only remember us during election seasons. They now pose for photographs with disabled people, market women and artisans. Before now, these same people cannot come near the gates of their mansions without being dehumanized by security agents. The deceitful hypocrisy of taking photographs with disabled people is sickening and a major reason why they would never get our votes. For exploiting the misfortunes of the needy and disabled for political gains, they deserve condemnation and stern rebuke.

Where were they since the last election? Where were they during the hardships, sufferings and economic devastations of the COVID-19 global lockdown last year? What were their responses to the human tragedy of the pandemic? They did nothing. They quarantined themselves and their families in the luxuries of their opulent mansions while we, the poor, died daily not because of the infections of the pandemic but because of our cruel abandonment to the forces of hunger, extreme hardship and unimaginable frustration.

It’s now election time in Anambra and like vultures on carcasses, our tormentors in Chief have gathered in their usual sadistic orgies, to insult and molest our collective intelligence with their blood money and emergency philanthropies, which is not what we want again.

At this time, we should be looking out for our true heroes and not falling into the same trap, set by the same people, who have kept us in hell all these years. While they locked us up in hell, how did we survive? Ndi Anambra, who reached out for us? Who stood solidly behind us, taking us to hospitals, paying our children’s school fees, empowering our youths, restoring hope to our widows and the needy and giving start-up grants for small and medium scale businesses. Ndi Anambra, these are our true heroes. They alone can keep us in the promised land because they, on their own, have taken us there.

We must shine our eyes and identify our true heroes. They are our destiny helpers and in this year’s Anambra governorship election, they are the ones we should follow.

Towering above others in this select group of genuine helpers, destiny builders and pacesetters is the greatest of them all. A man of disarming humility, heart of gold and overflowing with milk of human kindness. He is our true hero, our destiny helper, our dream builder, the only man who sees the whole of Anambra as one constituency of one people, with one destiny. He is no other but High Chief, Eloka Godwin Agbasimelo, young billionaire, multiple investor, business mogul, record label owner, extraordinary philanthropist, United Nations Peace Ambassador and custodian of very many traditional titles.

High Chief, Eloka Godwin Agbasimelo, an indigene of Ezinifite, Nnewi South LGA, may not be the richest man in the state but he is surely, the man with the largest heart of gold in the entire state.

From his hometown of Ezinifite to every town in the 21 LGAs of the state, this quintessential hero of our time has left indelible footprints on the sand of records. In his Ezinifite town, he singlehandedly tarred a 6.5 kilometre road and ensured, that every inch of the road is floodlit at nights with solar powered energy. In the neighbouring town of Osumenyi, High Chief Agbasimelo, has for many years retained a fully equipped hospital, for the sole purpose of providing free medical services to all indigenes of Nnewi South LGA and not for only people from his town. This hospital has successfully treated and discharged tens of thousands of indigenes of the LGA, who otherwise, could not have afforded adequate and timely medicare. The services provided by this hospital include free surgeries and other procedures for many life-threatening ailments. This is unprecedented and only High Chief Agbasimelo can truthfully lay claim to this kind of extraordinary philanthropy.

It is noteworthy that High Chief Agbasimelo unlike many people did not site this hospital in his hometown of Ezinifite and he did not restrict its services to people from his hometown alone. Godwin Agbasimelo is truly a man for all ndi Anambra. Every act of his philanthropy proves that he sees the whole of Anambra State as one constituency of one people, that should have one destiny.

In the 21 LGAs of the state, there are indigent primary school pupils, secondary and tertiary students who are able to go to school because of Agbasimelo’s elaborate scholarship schemes. In Anambra, Agbasimelo’s philanthropies are scattered all over the 21 LGAs like the tentacles of an octopus. He is indeed a philanthropist without borders, as he sees the entire state as one and does not discriminate against any part or favours any part against others.

In every nook and cranny of Anambra State, there are great numbers of men, women and youths who are beneficiaries of Agbasimelo’s interest free revolving loans. In the 190 towns in the state, there are identifiable people, who now own businesses and can therefore, take care of their families because of Agbasimelo’s start-up grants for small and medium businesses.

There is no area of Anambra life that High Chief Agbasimelo has not incredibly touched. In order to enhance the movement of ndi Anambra, in the course of their businesses, from one place to another, Chief Agbasimelo did what no one, no matter how wealthy, has ever done in the state. He bought and distributed thousands of motor scooters to thousands of people in the 21 LGAs of the state. The popularity of this particular scheme is so overwhelming that scooters have been renamed in Anambra State as Oga ndi Oga motorcycles.

Yes, Oga ndi Oga! The singular most popular name in the state now. It is the foundation that High Chief Eloka Godwin Agbasimelo has used for years to wipe the tears of ndi Anambra, to ease their sufferings and restore hope to the state. For instance, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when most wealthy Anambrarians provided for themselves and their families, when most emergency philanthropists provided palliatives for their individual towns and LGAs, High Chief Agbasimelo was the only one in the entire state that saw the whole of Anambra State as one people, facing the same calamity and deserving the same treatment.

Not many people in the state can forget in a hurry the great and astonishing walls of rice which sprang up in the 21 LGAs of the state during the COVID-19 era, as High Chief Agbasimelo distributed millions of bags of rice to ndi Anambra to ease their sufferings during the global pandemic lockdown.

High Chief Eloka Godwin Agbasimelo is the true hero of Anambra State. His Oga ndi Oga Foundation is the true vehicle of hope available to all of us. Today, High Chief Agbasimelo, his Oga ndi Oga Foundation and his impeccable quest for a new and better Anambra State is the power behind the Labour Party.

Ndi Anambra arise and behold your true hero. Behold the true vehicle of hope. Behold the Labour Party, the true party of hope chosen by our true hero for our common good.

Uchem Obi
Awka.