Missing template found for Igala nation

Dr. Ali Onoja, one of the best professionals from the stables of the Igala nation, who recently declared his intention to answer the clarion call, is calculatively determined to step into the murky waters of politics to represent Ankpa/ Omala/ Olamaboro Federal Constituency in the National Assembly.  With the track records he has in the […]

Dr. Ali Onoja, one of the best professionals from the stables of the Igala nation, who recently declared his intention to answer the clarion call, is calculatively determined to step into the murky waters of politics to represent Ankpa/ Omala/ Olamaboro Federal Constituency in the National Assembly. 

With the track records he has in the civil service, having served for 22 years as a virologist and public health specialist in the health sector, there is no doubt that he would bring his professionalism and credibility to bear in delivering the dividends of democracy to the people.

Onoja is well known as a believer in the principles, that true happiness is embedded in identifying a need and meeting it, especially when it exits in an atmosphere of helplessness and with potentiality of escalating vulnerability.

Undoubtedly, and with the benefits of hindsight, he had several demonstrated the  belief, that  those who have found great fulfillment and innermost serenity in life were those who conscientiously refused to sit on the fence while the ruins of the broken walls persisted, but suffered self-denial and lost comfort  zones in order to ameliorate vulnerability in the society. 

Dr.  Onoja, a consummate professional in his own right, happens to be among the few who consider it a crime to humanity, to sit on the fence when there are broken walls to be urgently mended. 

When he said “there is no such a thing as neutrality or sitting on the fence”, It was not just a thoughtless passing remarks, but an expression that reflects his true characters. In life, while many talk the talks, few walk the talks.

With about 22 years of  professional career in the health sector, with other cognate experiences, apparently,  he has  achieved a pedigree that puts him in the class of those who deserve to sit on the ‘high horse’ of societal affluence and careless about the poor masses. Nonetheless, he sees it as a disservice to God and mankind, to be mounted on the horse back in the midst of people who are suffering deprivation of various degrees.

He has exemplified empathy and enormous tender love that have impacted humanity greatly, and more particularly, the Igala nation, his land of nativity.

During his tenure as the Chairman, Health Committee of Project Igala, he eschewed clannish jingoism and liberally extended health and educational support to several communities in Olamaboro, Ankpa, Omala, Idah, Dekina and other LGAs of Igala nation.

He launched an interventionist scheme for orphans and widows in July 9, 2010. This scheme has provided educational support and economic empowerment to over 300 vulnerable children and widows within the constituency.

He was also the arrow head that facilitated the building of a health centre in Ogugu, a project that was executed in partnership with Still Waters and Missionaries from the United Kingdom in 2007.  He was also the facilitator of the AHP Community Health Initiative in Ogugu, the project that attracted the presence of Hajia Zainab Idris, former First Lady of Kogi State in 2010.

There is no iota of doubt that his venture into politics would establish the missing template that could bridge the existing gap between the electorate, the elected and the elective office.

Austin Baba Ibeji, Abuja.