Mentor of Ibusa and Anioma Nation: A Biography of Obi (Senator) Nosike Ikpo (1929-2021), Distinguished Senator of Federal Republic of Nigeria
Mentor of Ibusa and Anioma Nation: A Biography of Obi (Senator) Nosike Ikpo (1929-2021), Distinguished Senator of Federal Republic of N igeria By Emeka Esogbue In 1979, Ibusa had just made a landmark entry into the Senate representation of Bendel East Senatorial District of the defunct Bendel State through Nosike Ikpo, an illustrious son of the soil who had just been elected under the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), one of Nigeria’s leading political parties of the time as the Distinguished Senator representing the people of this District. The Ibusa community, though rich in human capital as she sustainably remains today, did not join the Nigerian politics early enough especially in the First Republic as did other Nigerian communities but the personality of Ikpo was to launch the community to attention with the 1979 legislative position held by him so that from 1979-1984, Ibusa bore the senatorial mandate of their group. The area of political picture itself, that he...