19/10/2022
2023 ELECTIONS: ABIA CENTRAL POWER GAME REQUIRES ONE WHO IS COMFORTABLE WITH POWER.
“If you are not comfortable with power, you cannot exercise political power”
By Jaja Martins
The greatest gain of political power is realized when such power is situated in the hands of those with the template of power. The effective exercise of power requires a high level of understandability of its intrigues and intricacies. We have received less from the bank of power simply because we have often times given power to those who are not comfortable with it. If you are not comfortable with power, you cannot exercise political power. Hence the Latin expression: “Nemo dat quod non habet” which translates that “you cannot give what you do not have”.
The name Wachuku from which Chuku Wachuku, the YPP Senatorial flag bearer for Abia Central Zone originates, represents a rich and revered background of power and its play in Igbo land and Nigeria at large.
Chief Chuku Wachuku has a rich background of royalty and effective exercise of both economic and political power in the service of God and humanity. His father, Chief Benjamin Anaba Wachuku, a.k.a., B. A. Wachuku was the first Secretary and Treasurer of Northern Ngwa District Council; later Northern Ngwa County Council, founding Branch Manger of African Continental Bank - ACB, in Aba; Onitsha, Makurdi, Nguru , Maidugiri in present day Borno State. He founded Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria Ltd - CBEN; later transformed into Cooperative and Commerce Bank Ltd. He made several Ngwa Sons & daughters Managers & Executive Directors. As a foremost philanthropist, Chief B.A. Wachuku who married from the Royal Family of Bonny Ancient Kingdom of the Hart/Gumbo major Ruling House, financed many prominent Igbo & Ngwa citizens and made them millionaires
The YPP Senatorial Candidate for Abia Central, Chief Chuku Wachuku, is a nephew of Jaja Wachuku, Nigeria’s first Speaker of the House of Representatives as well as first Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations; and first Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations. He is also grandson of King Josaiah Ndubuisi Wachuku, who was paramount chief (Onye Isi), servant leader and Eze of Ngwa Land in the then Aba Division of Eastern Nigeria.
As an individual, the Mbawsi-born Development Economist and Employment Expert has remained a power player at state, national and international arenas. His familiarity with power play made him an exceptional Director-General when he was at the helm of affairs at the National Directorate of Empowerment, NDE. As a Commissioner in the old Imo State, he was spectacular and the cynosure of all.
Wachuku is President and Chief Executive Officer of Agriculture and Industrial Entrepreneurs of Nigeria, AIEN. He was National President of Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists, NASSI. He is Chairman of Research Planning: Nigeria-China Business Council; including being an Employee Welfare and Industrial Relations Consultant for International Labour Organization, ILO, a specialised agency of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
By presidential appointment, he serves on the board of Nigeria’s Raw Materials Research and Development Council, RMRDC.In February 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan approved the selection of Wachuku by Abia State Government as a delegate representing south-east geo-political zone and Abia State at the Nigerian National Conference.Earlier, in July 2013, President Jonathan appointed Wachuku to serve on the governing board of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, NASENI, as well as the governing board of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria, SMEDAN.
The clamour by all and sundry is to have leaders that are responsive to the needs of the people. What is the need of power if he who wields power does not understand how to maximize its use thereof. There is no rocket science in achieving this. The good thing is for us to identify the missing link. Power must be given to people like Chuku Wachuku who, by birth, knowledge and experience, understand the dynamics of power play.
Now that the dice has been cast, Abia Central cannot afford to endure the reign of ineptitude and power mish*t candidates when we are faced with the choice of a power glitterati and reformist in Chief Chuku Wachuku. It is out of context to suck purulent drainage when we have enough supply of breast milk. The fact that Chief Chuku Wachuku was born in power, understands the dynamics and effective use of power to achieve results is enough credential to root for him. A vote for Chuku Wachuku to represent Abia Central in the Nigerian Senate in 2023 is a direct connection to the missing link.
The time to look inward is now!
