THE BURDEN OF LEADERSHIP - CHIEF EBIKEME CLARK


THE TASK BEFORE CHIEF EBIKEME CLARK

The Peoples Democratic Party in Burutu LGA has spoken and Ebikeme Clark is the Flag bearer for the upcoming Council Polls. We congratulate Ebikeme Clark and urge him to get to work even before the polls as Burutu is a PDP Council Area.

The first Task before Ebikeme Clark is to unify the Party at the Council Area. We will be playing the Ostrich, if we assume all is well with the PDP in Burutu. As a matter of urgency, Chief Ebikeme Clark should consult widely and bring the PDP under one umbrella as a divided PDP in Burutu will not benefit anyone.

Second Task: Chief Ebikeme Clark should start drawing up his Policy Trust for the Council Area. Keying into the Three Point Agenda of His Excellency will help. Peace and Security, Infrastructure and Human Capital Development. Agreed there is very little a Council Boss can do given the peculiar terrain in terms of Infrastructural Development, Chief Ebikeme Clark can count on the Goodwill he had enjoyed that saw him emerging as the PDP flag bearer to attract development to the Area from the Federal/ State Governments, Government Ministries and Agencies.

On Peace and Security; he will do well to follow the laudable steps so far taken by His Excellency to ensure that the Peace we now enjoy in the Council Area is sustained and enhanced. On Human Capital Development Chief Ebikeme Clark will also like to follow the trend adopted by the State Government. However, he needs to put on his thinking cap and fashion out ways to get our children, many of whom are out of school back to school.


He need to also pursue vigorously various Skill Development Programs to help the Thousands of unemployed youths to develop skills that will not only sustain them but make them employers of labor, whilst doing his best to get many gainfully employed; To achieve this, he needs to build a database of all employable youths and their areas of specialization, then take stock of all companies operating in and around the Council Area to find out areas of cooperation that will ease the unemployment scourge. A strong stand on the Local Content Law will give the Council Area an edge in securing employment for some.

He must be determined to ensure that every quota given to the Council Area in terms of Recruitment into the Military and Paramilitary Forces are filled without fail.

He needs to urgently look at a Burutu without Oil. Our Nation is currently facing an Oil glut and many analysts are of the opinion that the glut may continue, besides Oil is a Natural Resource which many believe will be exhausted in the not too distant future. Can Burutu survive without Oil? He needs to lay a strong foundation for a Burutu beyond Oil.

The challenges facing Chief Ebikeme Clark are huge but they are by no means insurmountable. Many say he is a chip off the old block and that the Young Clark is ready to carry on the rich legacy of his Father. It was Confucius who said “Old age is good and pleasant. You are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator” he cannot afford to fail destiny; he cannot afford to fail his father on whose honor he had been so entrusted with this onerous task of piloting the affairs of the Council Area


To carry on the administration of Burutu from the standpoint of Business as usual will be detrimental to the development of the Council Area and it will be a big dent on his political future.

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