OSHIMILI NORTH POLITICAL SPACE QUAKES AS IBUSA PHILANTHROPIST, OMELORA CHUKS OKONJI JOINS DELTA HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY RACE

- Floats Omelora Movement to advance his political career

- Emeka Esogbue

There are very clear indications that Ibusa philanthropist, and the Omelora of Ibusa, Sir Chuks Okonji has convincingly joined politics with the ambition to gun for the Delta State House of Assembly race. Pen Master on Monday, met with the young virile philanthropist who was full of laudable ideas, inside his Lagos office where they sat down to have discussions to this effect. Worried that things are not really as they should be, he believes that the youths carrying something to offer the society should come onboard to introduce new tactics which will help change the people's destiny.

The Omelora of Ibusa who hails from Umuodafe in Ibusa is a respected business tycoon with investments that cut across different sectors in the country.

Hailed by Oshimili North youths and called upon to join politics to deliver the people of Oshimili North, Chief Chuks Okonji has heeded the call and ready to serve his people in this capacity. On the strategies for employment, he told Pen Master that he was ready to give to the people, his services unconditionally and will deploy the best of Oshimili North hands to achieve his political aims. He pointed out the media as one of the viable and valuable tools that will aid his success at the polls. For him, it is politics without bitterness.

The Omelora Movement is asking the people for votes which will be ultimately utilized to better his society. Part of the campaign promises of the established businessman is to develop the communities of Oshimili North and also make Ibusa a centre for tile-making. Ibusa will become the commercial centre of tiles where all types of slabs of clay or other materials such as roof-tiles, glazed-tiles, stove-tiles, carpet-tiles and others will thrive and patronized. It will open up the community and give the teeming inhabitants around the Oshimili North, the opportunity to work and be patronized. He also spoke of his boisterous plans for Okpanam, Illah, Atuma, Ebu and other communities within the Oshimili North political fold.

The Omelora sees his ambition as founded on genuine services to the people as he is already established from spare parts trade, investment in hospitality business and oil and gas sector. Already, some youths of the community are celebrating the triumphant entry into politics by Chief Chuks Okonji, the Omelora of Ibusa as an opportunity for introduction of necessary change in the polity.

Philanthropist Omelora is an amazing man with a history of lots of charitable contributions to the social development of the society, a very kind man with achievements without the sound of trumpets. The political agitation in the country is such that new hands should be tried and it may well be favourable to Sir Chuks Okonji, the Omelora of Ibusa who is convinced on his career to work towards bettering the lives of his people. It is no magic but support from the people which he is humbly seeking. His party platform is outside the PDP and APC, which is a search for newer principles and ideologies.

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